Sustainable Development : National Aspirations, Local Implementation

Hill, Jennifer; Terry, Alan; Woodland, Wendy (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 075464605X / ISBN 13: 9780754646051

Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, UK, 2006

About this Item

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good+ condition in pictorial boards. Black & white diagrams. Previous owner's blindstamp to front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvi, 323pp. Uses a number of case studies from Africa, South America, India, the Caribbean, and Indonesia to examine the challenges, opportunities and progress made in uniting national aspirations and local implementation.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sustainable Development : National Aspirations, Local Implementation
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, UK
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075464605X
• ISBN 13: 9780754646051
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History

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Synopsis

Using case studies from Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, this book examines the progress made in uniting national aspirations of sustainable development strategies with their local implementation. Comparing the situation on the ground with formal national environmental action plans, the book compares progress, or the lack of progress, between different sectors, cultures, regions and resources throughout the developing world. It examines whether local knowledge and actions are undermining national aspirations or whether they are being ignored at the national level with detrimental consequences to sustainable development. The measurement of sustainable development, the role of formal and informal education in sustainable development and the significance of diverse voices in the practice of sustainable development are considered. The book draws lessons from those cases which appear to be experiencing positive moves towards sustainability and examines whether common frameworks exist which suggest that good practice may be transferable from one milieu to another.

About the Author

Drs Jennifer Hill, Alan Terry and Wendy Woodland are all at the School of Geography and Environmental Management, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.