APPENDIX TO ITEM 31.4
Report for the 23rd General Assembly
FIG Working Week in Prague, 22-26 May 2000
Task Force on Sustainable Development
It was decided at the FIG Congress in 1998 to form at Task
Force to prepare a FIG statement on how the organisation will implement the
concept of sustainable development.
The proposed title of the statement is "FIG Agenda
21", referring to the report from the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and
Development (Agenda 21). The statement should however not be limited to
reflecting Agenda 21. It should as well, inter alia, reflect the outcome of the
UN Habitat II Conference in 1996 (the Habitat Agenda with its Global Plan of
Action), the agreement between FIG and UNCHS, the Bogor and Bathurst
Declarations, and the existing FIG statement from 1991 on sustainable
development.
Dealing with surveying, planning and management of land and
water resources, laws and systems that is needed for access to land and security
of tenure, and with geographic information in all it's aspects, the profession
of surveyors are deeply involved in issues of profound importance for
sustainable development. The way surveyors are trained and act can have a
significant impact on the implementation of sustainable development. The aim of
the Statement is to show that the International Federation of Surveyors is
committed to do it's outmost to develop the surveying profession and the
individual surveyor to act in accordance with the principles of sustainable
development. Further to this, that FIG is committed to collaborate with all
relevant agencies of the United Nations and with other non-governmental
organisations in developing a mutual understanding of how surveying in all it's
aspects, as well as related techniques, products and services, best can
contribute to the implementation of Agenda 21 world-wide.
A full draft will be ready for the FIG working week in 2000,
to be finally adopted at the FIG working week in 2001. It is anticipated that
the work mainly will be undertaken by correspondence and email.
The Task Force was constituted with the following members:
- Markku Villikka, Finland, chairman
- Karin Haldrup, Denmark, Commission 3
- Helmut Brackmann, Germany, Commission 8
- Paul van der Molen, Netherlands, Commission 7
- Mike Yovino Young, USA, Commission 9
- Peter Byrne, Australia
- Ian Williamson, Australia
- Jerry Ives, USA
When Markku Villikka later was appointed to Director of the
FIG office, Helge Onsrud, Norway, was asked to substitute him as task force
leader, taking up the position late 1998.
At a meeting between FIG and CIB in London in April 1999, CIB was invited to
appoint two corresponding members to the task force, however no names are yet
received (March 2000) 1999).
Helge Onsrud
Chair, FIG Task Force on Sustainable Development
13 March 2000
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