TY - Report AU - Wendy McGuinness AU - Nick Preval AU - Ella Lawton PY - 2008 T1 - The common elements of a national sustainable development strategy: learning from international experience PB - McGuinness Institute DO - https://doi.org/APO-67959 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/67959 AB - The aim of this research report was to review best global practice in regard to the written content of National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDSs) in order to identify and explore the common and unique elements of each. We selected the NSDSs of Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom (see Appendices 1–3) as we considered they represented ‘best practice’. The institutional frameworks of all three countries were also studied in Report 4a, Institutions for Sustainable Development: Learning from international experience. ER -