Institutionalising the Environmental Planning and Management (EPM) Process In all activities and phases of a Sustainable Cities Programme demonstration project, institutionalising the EPM process remains the overarching objective which will continue to engage cities long after the project has been completed. Although the SCP activities preparing the Environmental Profile, conducting the City Consultation, establishing Working Groups, formulating strategies and institutionalising the process) are logically portrayed in a sequence of phases and stages, as if one feeds into the other, in reality they rather represent a complex, multi-track process. Institutionalising the Environmental Planning and Management (EPM) Process (Vol. 5, SCP Source Book Series, UN HABITAT/UNEP 1999) download here [pdf file, 600kb]