Implementing Sustainable Development

Implementing Sustainable Development

From Global Policy to Local Action

Vargas, Claudia Maria; Cooper, Phillip J.

Rowman & Littlefield

12/2024

506

Mole

9781538162231

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Chapter 1. The Foundations of Sustainable Development

What is Sustainable Development Really?

What Sustainable Development is Not

Sustainable Development in Public Policy: The Implementation Gap

Making Sense of it All: The Feasibility Framework as a Way to Understand and Advance Sustainable Development Implementation

So Why Has Sustainable Development Today Gone Beyond Necessary and Has Become Urgent?

Our Common Future: The Commission's Warnings Are Today's Critical Problems

Climate Change: Exhibit-A for the Necessity of Sustainable Development

Conclusion

Chapter 2. The Principles of Sustainable Development: Global Common Commitments

Key Concepts, Connections, and Distinctions: The Foundations of Sustainable Development Implementation

A Transformation in Development Policy

The Growing Significance of Environment

The Growing Role of Markets

Linking Social Development with Economic and Environmental Concerns

The International Dialog on Sustainable Development

From the Brundtland Commission to Rio to Copenhagen

The Copenhagen Social Summit-Re-emphasizing the Three Key Elements of Sustainable Development

Getting from Copenhagen to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030

The Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Paris Accords: Commitments to Evaluate Progress

The Challenge of Implementation Amidst a Turbulent Political Environment

Working with Both the Principles of Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals 2030

Sustainable Development Goals: A Necessary but Not Sufficient Approach

The Declared Principles of Sustainable Development: A Useful Framework for Implementation That Can Work Well with the Agenda 2030 goals

Declared Principles of Sustainable Development

The Change Principle

The Environmental Protection Principle

The Principle of Balance and Integration

The Principle of Human-Centered Development

A Right to Development, but with an Obligation of Mutual Respect

The Intergenerational and Intragenerational Equity Principle

The Equality Principle

The Decentralization Principle

The Partnership Principle

The Transparency and Accountability Principle

The Family Principle

The Livable Community Principle

The Education Principle

The Health and Wellness Principle

The Poverty Eradication Principle

The Culture Sensitivity Principle

The Scope, Scale, and Wealth Principle

The Market Principle

The Rule of Law Principle

The Principles and the Goals: Both Necessary, Neither is Sufficient Alone

Conclusion

Chapter 3. Questions of Technical Feasibility: Do We Know How to Do It?

Two Very Different Technical Feasibility Positions

The Namosi Copper Mine-The Effort to Use Mineral Resources for Development in Fiji

Civano, Tucson, Arizona: A Sustainable Community in a Desert Environment

The Context of Sustainable Development Choices

The State of Development

Ecosystem Characteristics

The Temporal Dimension

The Challenges of Finding Technical Responses

Understanding the Problem: Not Always as Easy as it May Seem

The Question of Appropriate Technologies

Sources of Appropriate Technical Solutions

Diffusion of Appropriate Technologies: From Knowledge to Action

What is Good Science in Support of Policy Action?

What Is Success? Problems of Assessment and Measurement in Sustainable Development

Conclusion

Chapter 4. Legal Feasibility: Building Infrastructure to Meet Mandates, from Supranational to Local

Legal Feasibility Challenges on Two Ends of the United States

Washington State Oil Tanker Regulation in the Puget Sound

Sustainable Development Challenges in Ambos Nogales

The Context and the Issues

Context Counts: Questions of Diversity, Conflict, and Convergence

Basic Issues in Legal Feasibility

The International Dimension

National Obligations

Subnational Issues: State (or Provincial) and Local Authority and Limits

Contracts, Agreements, and Other Governance Relationships: Intergovernmental and Cross Sector Relationships, Including Tribal Governments

Conclusion

Chapter 5. Fiscal Feasibility: Resources to Get from Paper to Action

Financial Challenges and Creativity in Sustainable Development: Lockland, Ohio and the Great Green Wall of Africa

Lockland, Ohio: Finding the Green for Brownfields Redevelopment

Memorandum of Agreement

Project Partners and Programs

Remediation of Property

Property Ownership

Redevelopment of the Site

Tax Base Enhancement

Making Real A Sustainable Development Dream on a Colossal Scale: The Great Green Wall of Africa

One Size Does Not Fit All: Context and Fiscal Feasibility

Financing Sustainable Development: Thinking Seriously About Resources for Sustainable Development Implementation

Where Will the Money Come From? Sources and Types of Support

The Local Level: No Time to Wait for the World!

Market Dynamics and Fiscal Support

International Financial Support

The Parameters of Foreign Direct Investment

Various types of Support from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

The Tools and Their Strengths and Challenges

Tax Funded Efforts, Local NGOs, and Even Contributions

Intergovernmental Agreements and other Forms of Collaboration

Loans and Grants at the Local, National, and ODA at the International Level

NGO Support and the Surprises that Can Come with It

FDI at the International Level, the Role of Business, and the Marketplace in Local or National Sustainable Development Work

Budgeting for Sustainable Development: The Expenditure Side of the Ledger

First, Recall that Sustainable Development Often Requires "Assembled Budgets"

Second, Issues of Priority and Process

Third, Special Funds, Fees, and Taxes and Problems for Sustainable Development Rather than Strong Foundations for Implementation

Incentives and Subsidies: Dangers but also Needs

Fourth, Looking Beyond the Short-Term to a Sustainable Development Perspective

Microfinance: Sustainable Finance for the Poor

Special Challenges for Indigenous Communities

Conclusion

Chapter 6. Administrative Feasibility: Good Intentions, Intelligence, and Money Are Not Enough

Water Crises in Walkerton, Ontario Canada and Flint, Michigan

Walkerton, Ontario: Deaths from a Total System Failure

Singapore: The Botanical Gardens and Beyond

The Botanical Gardens of Singapore and Administrative Discretion

Embracing the Concept of a Biophilic City through Strong Governance with a Commitment to Implementation

The Context and Administrative Action

Administrative Feasibility in Larger Cities as Compared to Rural Areas is Different

Administrative Action in Rural Communities Changed by New Residential and Work Patterns

Administrative Complexities in Small Island States

Administrative Action in A Time of Pervasive Anti-Government Politics and Ideology

Modern Governance and the Need to Redevelop the State and Its Institutions

Where to Put the Work of Sustainable Development Administration

Where to Place Sustainable Development Divisions: Four Models

Governance in Sustainable Development: Intergovernmental Relations and the Coordination Challenge

Coordination Challenges: Pulling the Disparate Pieces Together

Key Factors Shaping the Coordination Challenge in Sustainable Development Implementation

Network Management: The Creation and Operation of Virtual Organizations

Major Differences in Network Management in Private, Public, and Nonprofit Organizations

What is a Network Anyway?

Network Management in Implementing Sustainable Development

Parallel Systems Management: A Response to Contemporary Realities

Conclusion

Chapter 7. Political Feasibility: The Will to Act and the Power to Get It Done

Curitiba, Brazil: A Sustainable Development Leader Under Unlikely Circumstances

A Dynamic, Growing, Integrated Approach to Social Development

A Dynamic Approach to Protect the Environment that Integrates Social Development

Economic development Never Stands Alone but Looks to Inclusion and other Social Development Issues

Political Will at Work: Persistent, Pervasive, and Forward Looking

Always Looking Towards a Sustainable Future for Curitibanos

Water Collection and Conservation: Multiple Efforts

A Prompt, Integrated, and Innovative Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19

Political Feasibility in Challenging Times: "PlanClima" to Mitigate Climate Change

Innovation Incubators: The Vale do Pinhao Urban Ecosystem

Lessons on Political Feasibility from Curitiba: "Co-Responsibility"

Vancouver, Washington: Another Improbable Success Story in a Very Different Context

Context Counts: "All Politics is Local" and "Two Weeks is a Political Generation"

The Temporal Dimension of Political Feasibility

A Focus on the Community and Local Context to Enhance Political Feasibility

The Politics of Sustainable Development

Maintaining a Focus on Integrating All Three Elements of Sustainable Development

Maximizing the Potential of Policy Communities

Avoiding the Silos Problem in Sustainable Development Implementation

Political Feasibility in Implementation: Different Challenges from Policy Design and Adoption

Political Will and Political Stability: Critical Core Features of Political Feasibility

Political Will: Action, Ongoing Effort, and the Readiness to Make Difficult Choices

Political Stability: Not a Lack of Debate or Political Competition but a Solid Foundation for Action

Sustainable Development Politics and Intergovernmental Relations

Intergovernmental Relations in the International Context

IGR Within Nations

Political Culture as a Key Component in the Mix that Makes Up Intergovernmental Relations

Beyond Competition to Cooperation at the Local-Government Level

Leaving the Ego at the Door to Overcome Tensions

Growing Your Own Capacity and Keeping It by Sharing

Public Participation and Political Feasibility

Not One Kind of Involvement but a Spectrum of Participation

Why Does It Matter? Participation as an Active Element in Sustainable Development

Barriers to Participation: The Obvious and the Less Visible

Dangers and Cautions: Not Always as Obvious as Red Octagon or Yellow Triangle Signs

Foundations for Enhanced Participation: Challenge of Listening and Educating

The Politics of NGOs: Complex Relationships with Essential Partners

Mustering Collaboration Among the Overwhelming Numbers of NGOs

Competition between International and Local NGOs in Advancing Sustainable Development

Management Differences between Government Agencies and NGOs

The Complexity of Coalitions

Conclusion

Chapter 8. Ethical Feasibility: Values That Matter on the Ground

Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health

A Network of Centers to Address Children's Environmental Health

The Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health (MCECH) Targeting Asthma

Lok Jumbish, Jaipur, India: Education That Includes Girls Through Community Engagement

School Mapping: Engaging and Getting to Know the Community

An Empowering Teaching Approach through Iterative Teacher Training

Engaging Traditionally Disenfranchised Women in the LJ Movement

Serving Traditionally Excluded Groups

Nonformal Education to Accommodate Girls with Special Circumstances

Inclusion of Children with Disabilities

Reaching Out to Engage and Provide Accommodations for Children with Particular Challenges

Rajasthan's Equity Efforts in the 21st Century: Beyond Literacy to Meet Future Needs

Context Counts: Development Challenges in Very Different Settings

The Case of Detroit and Ethical Feasibility in a Large City

Special Challenges in Rural Areas Whether in Rajasthan, India or Walkerton, Ontario Canada

Sustainable Development Ethics and the Commission Commitments

Corruption and Perverse Incentives

Law and Ethics as Related but Different Issues

Corruption, Whatever Else It May Be Called Weighs Heaviest on the Poor

Exclusion and Discrimination: The Need to Move to Inclusion and More

The Ongoing Need to Address Discrimination Against Women

Poverty and Exclusion: Unseen and Too Often Out of Mind

Exclusion Also Means a Lack of a Voice in Key Decisions or Serious Consideration of Impacts by the Decisions of Others

Exclusion by Age: Issues of Children and the Elderly

Exclusion of Persons with Disabilities

Indigenous Peoples: Long Excluded, but Now Teaching the Rest of Us

Internalizing the Excluded: Areas of Inclusive Action

Promoting Food Security and Nutrition While Promoting Equity

Environmental and Climate Justice: More Than Simply Stopping Bad Development

Sustainable Development and Environmental Equity

Sustainable Development and Climate Justice

Climate Justice Challenges: Massive Flooding in Pakistan

Climate Justice and Children: Intergenerational Impacts of Unsustainable Behavior

Protecting Vulnerable Workers: Lessons from Climate Change and COVID-19

Politics and Problematic Policy Responses to Environmental Justice and Climate Justice

Negotiating Cultures and "Ethical Discontinuities"

Conclusion

Chapter 9. Cultural Feasibility: One Size Does Not Fit All

Chimney Rock, California: A Case of Culture as Casualty of Development

Ganados del Valle, New Mexico: Culture as an Asset

Enterprises Spun Off from Ganados del Valle

Ganados del Valle in More Recent Times

Context Counts, But Too Often We Do Not Recognize It

Culture as an Asset for Sustainable Development

Tribal Co-Management Agreements with Federal and State Governments: Active Engagement with Indigenous Culture as an Asset in Contemporary Policy Action

Chief Seattle Club: Culture as an Asset in Serving Native-American/Alaska Natives

Integrating Indigenous Food Systems with Modern Knowledge for Erga Omnes, to Benefit All

Culture as Casualty: Adverse Impacts from Unsustainable Development

Culture under Pressure: The Case of Fiji

Stress, Loss, and Cultural Collisions

Indigenous Cultural Regeneration and Survival

The Makah Tribe: Cultural Revival and Regeneration Challenged

Challenges in Culturally Sensitive Sustainable Development Implementation

Organizational Culture: The Other Kind of Culture

Taking Cultural Feasibility Seriously: Diebedo Francis Kere, Burkina Faso, and a Legacy of Ancient Knowledge

Conclusion

Chapter 10. Ideas That Matter and Actions That Matter Even More

The Principles of Sustainable Development: Serious Commitments to Guide Action

The Feasibility Framework in Action

The Urgency of Implementing Sustainable Development to Address the Climate Crisis

Lessons Along the Way

Context Counts, So Why Do We So Often Forget that Reality?

Nimble, Multi-functional, Infrastructure and Institutions

Effective Intergovernmental and Cross-Sectoral Collaboration at the Core: So Obvious, but So Often Neglected

Genuine Community Engagement: From Trust to Collaborative Action

The Ubiquitous Role of Education

Indigenous Knowledge as a Guide to Protecting the Global Commons

The Centrality of Integrating all Three Pillars of Sustainable Development

Index

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