(Commentary) (Significance of codes - Figure 2) (see use of codes in icosidodecadral representation Fig. 3A and 3B)
For other tables on strategies see: confidence ploys; value-based; typology for sustainable development; Chinese strategems

• Column and row headings (below) correspond to major clusters of functions essential to the sustainable development of society.
• Words used to label the scope of clusters are necessarily inadequate at the level of generality indicated.
• The clusters could be "unpacked" to give more columns and rows. Cluster label words would then become more specifically appropriate.
• The cells of the table indicate fundamental dilemmas of sustainable development.
• Sacrifices must be made in the process of change and transformation. The dilemma is the level of the sacrifice that is appropriate.
• Sustainability is determined by the balance between the various forms of sacrifice and the constraints that they impose on one another.
• The columns/rows can be thought of in terms of values, logics or languages which successively confront each other.
• Sectors in right hand column are mainly those represented at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Inter-Sectoral Dialogue