Creating sustainable futures/CSF103/Framing/Strategic frameworks

The Natural Step framework’s four sustainability principles allow people and organisations to audit and identify where their activities present sustainability challenges. This has been considered in detail above. The framework doesn’t prescribe any specific strategies or goals, but leaves that to the particular organisation to work out how best to set the goals that will, over time, enable compliance with the four basic principles in an economically viable way.

A number of other frameworks provide additional guidance on themes that a sustainability strategy might cover.

This next few pages outline the most well known frameworks and points you towards online materials where you can consider them in more detail.