Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local ActionRowman & Littlefield, 2004 - 424 páginas Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenge of turning international commitments and policy promises into action. Using examples and cases from around the U.S. and around the world, it examines the successful and failed efforts designed to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. Based on broad research that started before the Earth Summit, Implementing Sustainable Development offers a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challenges. |
Contenido
The Foundations of Sustainable Development | 1 |
The Principles of Sustainable Development Global Common Commitments | 21 |
Questions of Technical Feasibility Do We Know How to Do It? | 77 |
Legal Feasibility Building Infrastructure to Meet Mandates from Supranational to Local | 123 |
Fiscal Feasibility From Paper to Action | 163 |
Administrative Feasibility Good Intentions Intelligence and Money Are Not Enough | 217 |
Political Feasibility The Will to Act and the Power to Get It Done | 255 |
Ethical Feasibility Values That Matter on the Ground | 299 |
Cultural Feasibility One Size Does Not Fit All | 343 |
Ideas That Matter | 379 |
Bibliography | 387 |
Cases Cited | 401 |
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About the Authors | 423 |
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Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local Action Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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