Sustainable Cities and Localizing Agenda 21 Programmes promote a city management methodology (process) which shifts fundamentally from the traditional technology driven and resource focused development models.

The Environmental Planning and Management (EPM) framework represents one such approach which allows priority environmental issues in a city to be effectively addressed. It is a process oriented framework, which permits the different stakeholders to negotiate strategies and seek solutions collectively to priority issues of common concern. The process consists of a logically sequenced interactive set of activities whose systematic implementation and infusion into existing institutions will lead to profound changes in the ways development issues are perceived and addressed.

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