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Analysing pathways to sustainability in Indonesia (pdf 1.3mb)

This fact sheet provides an overview of the CSIRO project Analysing Pathways to Sustainability in Indonesia outlining Indonesia's pioneering new approach to national decision making that helps explain the impact high-level decisions have on ordinary people and on natural resources.

For the first time, a powerful new tool is allowing policy makers to better understand the consequences of macro policy at the micro level.

It will allow policy makers to see:
- How a major policy decision influences the decisions of families
- How their decisions affect natural resource use
- How this in turn plays back into national economic performance

This paper looks at the Pathways approach, which interprets the impact of macro decisions on different income groups in the community, and how their behaviour affects natural resources such as water, soil, energy, fish stocks, timber and minerals.

 

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