Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local ActionRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004 - 424 pages 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. |
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Page 32
... limited to " envi- ronmental issues " only . This would have been a grave mistake . The environment does not exist as a sphere separate from human actions , ambitions , and needs , and attempts to defend it in isolation from human ...
... limited to " envi- ronmental issues " only . This would have been a grave mistake . The environment does not exist as a sphere separate from human actions , ambitions , and needs , and attempts to defend it in isolation from human ...
Page 85
... limited capacity to move forward quickly , and the new policy may not carry with it the resources required to build that capac- ity . Activity in this kind of context is often intense , with demands for a vari- ety of actions to be ...
... limited capacity to move forward quickly , and the new policy may not carry with it the resources required to build that capac- ity . Activity in this kind of context is often intense , with demands for a vari- ety of actions to be ...
Page 87
... limited resources . It is useful to note a few general types of problems that have been common in sustainable development over the past two decades . Developing countries face two sets of quite different problems . The first is ...
... limited resources . It is useful to note a few general types of problems that have been common in sustainable development over the past two decades . Developing countries face two sets of quite different problems . The first is ...
Contents
Global Common Commitments | 21 |
Building Infrastructure to Meet Mandates | 123 |
From Paper to Action | 163 |
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