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eco
Services
Our services aim to combine human and natural
resources for sustainable development. Our work is process-oriented
and based on partnership, participation, institutional pluralism,
and subsidiarity. Our work is geared
by the following guiding principles:
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Development
co-operation means intervening in ongoing processes and consciously
steering them. Planning must be based on an indepth knowledge
of the ecological, economic, social and institutional processes
and systems and the interplay between them, and the synergies
which arise. In each individual instance the prevailing circumstances
are taken as the starting point.
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The vertical integration
and networking of everybody involved, from national decision-makers
to the local population, is crucial for successful programme
consultancy. |
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Planning for the
future means making every effort to take into account both the
ecological and the economic interests of the present and future
generations. Activities are moulded by the need to achieve sustainability. |
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The alarming acceleration
in the rate of destruction of tropical forests and the concomittant
problems cannot be solved by isolated forestry activities. They
demand interdisciplinary, supra-sectoral approaches. |
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Sustainable management
of natural resources is only possible if a consensus can be
reached among local people. The major stakeholders must participate
actively in planning, implementing and monitoring the project. |
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Planning in a
system which is as complex and dynamic as the natural environment
must be flexible and must promote diversity and development
options in the ecological and social domains. |
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