Kellokoski Experts' Meeting - Background

Putting People at the Center of Sustainable Development vol 1 and 2

Proceedings of the Expert Meeting on the Social Dimension in Sustainable Development
Kellokoski, Finland (1998)

From the Introduction of Volume 1:

The Volume 1 is a synthesis of the Expert Meeting on the Social Dimension in Sustainable Development held on October 15-17, 1998, in Helsinki and at the Baltic Sea Centre at Kellokoski, Finland. It aims at extracting the central policy themes in the contributed papers (Volume 2) and the discussions of the Meeting.

The purpose of the Expert Meeting was to deepen the understanding of the social dimension of sustainable development. It was an integral part of the Finnish agenda to support the role of social aspects of development discourse. The report studies the concept of social development and social sustainability, points out some future challenges and intervention strategies based on the inputs by the participants.

Volume 1: Policy Themes - A Synthesis (pdf, 888 kb)
Volume 2: Contributed Papers (pdf, 1 658 kb)