Implementing Sustainable Development From Global Policy to Local Action

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.

Phillip J. Cooper is Gund Professor of Liberal Arts in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont Claudia Maria Vargas is director of intercultural programs VT-ILEHP and research assistant professor of pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont