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Conceptual Framework for Criteria and Indicator for Assessment of Sustainable Development: An Illustration on Joint Forest Management.  

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Conceptual Framework for Criteria and Indicator for Assessment of Sustainable Development : An Illustration on Joint Forest Management S. B. Roy1, Raktima Mukherjee 2and Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay3 Introduction Sustainable Development involves management of a complex system where cultural, ecological and economic elements form a web. This web provides checks and balances of cultural values with ecological and economic implications governed by state bureaucratic and people institutions. Each system has components, which are interdependent and interrelated. To understand sustainability, therefore requires some understanding of the behaviour of systems in general and of social and eco-technological systems in particular. Eco-technological system is set of tools and approaches of biotechnology to enhance productivity at one hand and apply information technology for sharing information and managing institutions on the other. The more we study the problem of sustainability, the more we realise that it can not be understood in isolation. Each component, say, social/bureaucratic, eco-technological and economic are interwoven...

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