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Implementing Sustainable Development : From Global Policy to Local Action.

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Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of turning international commitments and policy promises into local action. Through global examples and cases, it examines the many dimensions of sustainable development, along with practical strategies for identifying and addressing obs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vargas, Claudia María
Other Authors: Cooper, Phillip J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2024.
Edition:2nd edition.
Subjects:
Sustainable development.
Electronic books.
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
  • 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 Become Urgent?
  • Our Common Future: The Commission's Warnings Are Today's Critical Problems
  • Climate Change: Exhibit A for the Necessity of Sustainable Development
  • Climate Change Repercussions on People
  • Intensified Hurricanes, Storms, and Sea-Level Rise
  • Fires: More Frequent, More Intense, and More Destructive
  • Extreme Heat: Changes in Work, Sports, and Housing Needs
  • Impacts on Settlement Patterns and Traditional Ways of Life
  • Climate Change and Human Health
  • Health Risks from Vector-Borne Diseases
  • Mental Health Risks from Climate Extremes
  • Climate Change, Oceans, and the Cryosphere
  • Economic Impact of Climate Change
  • 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 Dialogue on Sustainable Development
  • From the Brundtland Commission to Rio to Copenhagen
  • The Copenhagen Social Summit: Reemphasizing the Three Key Elements of Sustainable Development
  • Getting from Copenhagen to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030
  • The Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Paris Climate Accords: Commitments to Evaluate Progress
  • The Challenge of Implementation amid 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 Sustainable 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