Implementing sustainable development : from global policy to local action /
Phillip J. Cooper, Claudia Maria Vargas.
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.
- xv, 424 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-400) and index.
The foundations of sustainable development -- The principles of sustainable development : global common commitments -- Questions of technical feasibility : do we know how to do it? -- Legal feasibility : building infrastructure to meet mandates from supranational to local -- Fiscal feasibility : from paper to action -- Administrative feasibility : good intentions, intelligence, and money are not enough -- Political feasibility : the will to act and the power to get it done -- Ethical feasibility : values that matter on the ground -- Cultural feasibility : one size does not fit all -- Ideas that matter.