Assessing Progress Towards Sustainability IUCN Produced by: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) / World Conservation Union (1997) Focuses on the development and application of methods and tools for system, project and institutional assessment, including a participatory approach to engaging stakeholders in defining the key sustainability issues affecting their lives, and practical ways of measuring change in human and ecosystem condition related to these issues. This includes a way of developing and combining indicators into a sustainability index or rating, and training, capacity building and networking for field practitioners engaged in assessment activities. Includes case studies from Colombia ( Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta), Zimbabwe (District Environmental Action Plans) and India (Integrated Resource Management Plan, Tumkur District, Karnataka State). [author] Document also available in Spanish and French, see http://iucn.org/themes/eval/index.html . WWW site now includes information on IUCN's Monitoring and Evaluation Initiative, which is the practical application of Assessing Progress Toward Sustainability with IUCN project teams. (From ELDIS)