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 Pinhão 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.