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Implementing Sustainable Development
From Global Policy to Local Action
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eBook - PDF
Implementing Sustainable Development
From Global Policy to Local Action
About this book
Despite all the talk of sustainability, there has not been enough action to halt or reverse the impacts of climate change. Decades after the Rio Earth Summit and despite the many policies and commitments to move toward sustainable development, there continues to be a serious implementation gap.
Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of turning international commitments and policy promises into local action. Through global examples and cases, the authors examine not only the core principles, but also successful and failed efforts to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. They systematically guide readers through the technical, legal, economic, administrative, political, ethical, and cultural feasibility of putting sustainable development solutions in place. Based on broad research, Claudia María Vargas and Phillip J. Cooper offer a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challenges—what works, what doesn't, and why.
Features of this thoroughly revised second edition include:
Dozens of case studies from the throughout the worldAn overview of the UN Sustainable Development GoalsAction-oriented solutions to the challenges of sustainable developmentCareful consideration of local and indigenous knowledgeKey issues of equity, equality, and the importance of community involvement
Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of turning international commitments and policy promises into local action. Through global examples and cases, the authors examine not only the core principles, but also successful and failed efforts to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. They systematically guide readers through the technical, legal, economic, administrative, political, ethical, and cultural feasibility of putting sustainable development solutions in place. Based on broad research, Claudia María Vargas and Phillip J. Cooper offer a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challenges—what works, what doesn't, and why.
Features of this thoroughly revised second edition include:
Dozens of case studies from the throughout the worldAn overview of the UN Sustainable Development GoalsAction-oriented solutions to the challenges of sustainable developmentCareful consideration of local and indigenous knowledgeKey issues of equity, equality, and the importance of community involvement
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Chapter 1: The Foundations of Sustainable Development
- Chapter 2: The Principles of Sustainable Development: Global Common Commitments
- Chapter 3: Questions of Technical Feasibility: Do We Know How to Do It?
- Chapter 4: Legal Feasibility: Building Legal Infrastructure to Meet Mandates, from Supranational to Local
- Chapter 5: Fiscal Feasibility: Resources to Get from Paper to Action
- Chapter 6: Administrative Feasibility: Good Intentions, Intelligence, and Money Are Not Enough
- Chapter 7: Political Feasibility: The Will to Act and the Power to Get It Done
- Chapter 8: Ethical Feasibility: Values that Matter on the Ground
- Chapter 9: Cultural Feasibility: One Size Does Not Fit All
- Chapter 10: Ideas that Matter and Actions that Matter Even More
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Authors