PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and AcronymsChapter 1. The Foundations of Sustainable DevelopmentWhat is Sustainable Development Really?What Sustainable Development is NotSustainable Development in Public Policy: The Implementation GapMaking Sense of it All: The Feasibility Framework as a Way to Understand and Advance Sustainable Development ImplementationSo Why Has Sustainable Development Today Gone Beyond Necessary and Has Become Urgent?Our Common Future: The Commission’s Warnings Are Today’s Critical ProblemsClimate Change: Exhibit-A for the Necessity of Sustainable DevelopmentConclusionChapter 2. The Principles of Sustainable Development: Global Common Commitments Key Concepts, Connections, and Distinctions: The Foundations of Sustainable Development ImplementationA Transformation in Development PolicyThe Growing Significance of EnvironmentThe Growing Role of MarketsLinking Social Development with Economic and Environmental ConcernsThe International Dialog on Sustainable DevelopmentFrom the Brundtland Commission to Rio to CopenhagenThe Copenhagen Social Summit—Re-emphasizing the Three Key Elements of Sustainable DevelopmentGetting from Copenhagen to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030The Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Paris Accords: Commitments to Evaluate ProgressThe Challenge of Implementation Amidst a Turbulent Political EnvironmentWorking with Both the Principles of Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals 2030Sustainable Development Goals: A Necessary but Not Sufficient ApproachThe Declared Principles of Sustainable Development: A Useful Framework for Implementation That Can Work Well with the Agenda 2030 goalsDeclared Principles of Sustainable DevelopmentThe Change PrincipleThe Environmental Protection PrincipleThe Principle of Balance and IntegrationThe Principle of Human-Centered DevelopmentA Right to Development, but with an Obligation of Mutual RespectThe Intergenerational and Intragenerational Equity PrincipleThe Equality PrincipleThe Decentralization PrincipleThe Partnership PrincipleThe Transparency and Accountability PrincipleThe Family PrincipleThe Livable Community PrincipleThe Education PrincipleThe Health and Wellness PrincipleThe Poverty Eradication PrincipleThe Culture Sensitivity PrincipleThe Scope, Scale, and Wealth PrincipleThe Market PrincipleThe Rule of Law PrincipleThe Principles and the Goals: Both Necessary, Neither is Sufficient AloneConclusionChapter 3. Questions of Technical Feasibility: Do We Know How to Do It?Two Very Different Technical Feasibility PositionsThe Namosi Copper Mine—The Effort to Use Mineral Resources for Development in FijiCivano, Tucson, Arizona: A Sustainable Community in a Desert EnvironmentThe Context of Sustainable Development ChoicesThe State of DevelopmentEcosystem CharacteristicsThe Temporal DimensionThe Challenges of Finding Technical ResponsesUnderstanding the Problem: Not Always as Easy as it May SeemThe Question of Appropriate TechnologiesSources of Appropriate Technical SolutionsDiffusion of Appropriate Technologies: From Knowledge to ActionWhat is Good Science in Support of Policy Action?What Is Success? Problems of Assessment and Measurement in Sustainable DevelopmentConclusionChapter 4. Legal Feasibility: Building Infrastructure to Meet Mandates, from Supranational to LocalLegal Feasibility Challenges on Two Ends of the United StatesWashington State Oil Tanker Regulation in the Puget SoundSustainable Development Challenges in Ambos NogalesThe Context and the IssuesContext Counts: Questions of Diversity, Conflict, and ConvergenceBasic Issues in Legal FeasibilityThe International DimensionNational ObligationsSubnational Issues: State (or Provincial) and Local Authority and Limits Contracts, Agreements, and Other Governance Relationships: Intergovernmental and Cross Sector Relationships, Including Tribal Governments ConclusionChapter 5. Fiscal Feasibility: Resources to Get from Paper to ActionFinancial Challenges and Creativity in Sustainable Development: Lockland, Ohio and the Great Green Wall of AfricaLockland, Ohio: Finding the Green for Brownfields RedevelopmentMemorandum of AgreementProject Partners and ProgramsRemediation of PropertyProperty OwnershipRedevelopment of the SiteTax Base EnhancementMaking Real A Sustainable Development Dream on a Colossal Scale: The Great Green Wall of AfricaOne Size Does Not Fit All: Context and Fiscal FeasibilityFinancing Sustainable Development: Thinking Seriously About Resources for Sustainable Development ImplementationWhere Will the Money Come From? Sources and Types of SupportThe Local Level: No Time to Wait for the World!Market Dynamics and Fiscal SupportInternational Financial SupportThe Parameters of Foreign Direct InvestmentVarious types of Support from Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)The Tools and Their Strengths and ChallengesTax Funded Efforts, Local NGOs, and Even ContributionsIntergovernmental Agreements and other Forms of CollaborationLoans and Grants at the Local, National, and ODA at the International LevelNGO Support and the Surprises that Can Come with ItFDI at the International Level, the Role of Business, and the Marketplace in Local or National Sustainable Development WorkBudgeting for Sustainable Development: The Expenditure Side of the LedgerFirst, Recall that Sustainable Development Often Requires “Assembled Budgets”Second, Issues of Priority and ProcessThird, Special Funds, Fees, and Taxes and Problems for Sustainable Development Rather than Strong Foundations for ImplementationIncentives and Subsidies: Dangers but also NeedsFourth, Looking Beyond the Short-Term to a Sustainable Development PerspectiveMicrofinance: Sustainable Finance for the PoorSpecial Challenges for Indigenous CommunitiesConclusionChapter 6. Administrative Feasibility: Good Intentions, Intelligence, and Money Are Not EnoughWater Crises in Walkerton, Ontario Canada and Flint, MichiganWalkerton, Ontario: Deaths from a Total System FailureSingapore: The Botanical Gardens and BeyondThe Botanical Gardens of Singapore and Administrative DiscretionEmbracing the Concept of a Biophilic City through Strong Governance with a Commitment to ImplementationThe Context and Administrative ActionAdministrative Feasibility in Larger Cities as Compared to Rural Areas is DifferentAdministrative Action in Rural Communities Changed by New Residential and Work PatternsAdministrative Complexities in Small Island StatesAdministrative Action in A Time of Pervasive Anti-Government Politics and IdeologyModern Governance and the Need to Redevelop the State and Its InstitutionsWhere to Put the Work of Sustainable Development AdministrationWhere to Place Sustainable Development Divisions: Four ModelsGovernance in Sustainable Development: Intergovernmental Relations and the Coordination ChallengeCoordination Challenges: Pulling the Disparate Pieces TogetherKey Factors Shaping the Coordination Challenge in Sustainable Development ImplementationNetwork Management: The Creation and Operation of Virtual OrganizationsMajor Differences in Network Management in Private, Public, and Nonprofit OrganizationsWhat is a Network Anyway?Network Management in Implementing Sustainable DevelopmentParallel Systems Management: A Response to Contemporary RealitiesConclusionChapter 7. Political Feasibility: The Will to Act and the Power to Get It DoneCuritiba, Brazil: A Sustainable Development Leader Under Unlikely CircumstancesA Dynamic, Growing, Integrated Approach to Social DevelopmentA Dynamic Approach to Protect the Environment that Integrates Social DevelopmentEconomic development Never Stands Alone but Looks to Inclusion and other Social Development IssuesPolitical Will at Work: Persistent, Pervasive, and Forward LookingAlways Looking Towards a Sustainable Future for CuritibanosWater Collection and Conservation: Multiple EffortsA Prompt, Integrated, and Innovative Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19Political Feasibility in Challenging Times: “PlanClima” to Mitigate Climate ChangeInnovation Incubators: The Vale do Pinhão Urban EcosystemLessons on Political Feasibility from Curitiba: “Co-Responsibility”Vancouver, Washington: Another Improbable Success Story in a Very Different ContextContext Counts: “All Politics is Local” and “Two Weeks is a Political Generation”The Temporal Dimension of Political FeasibilityA Focus on the Community and Local Context to Enhance Political FeasibilityThe Politics of Sustainable DevelopmentMaintaining a Focus on Integrating All Three Elements of Sustainable DevelopmentMaximizing the Potential of Policy CommunitiesAvoiding the Silos Problem in Sustainable Development ImplementationPolitical Feasibility in Implementation: Different Challenges from Policy Design and AdoptionPolitical Will and Political Stability: Critical Core Features of Political FeasibilityPolitical Will: Action, Ongoing Effort, and the Readiness to Make Difficult ChoicesPolitical Stability: Not a Lack of Debate or Political Competition but a Solid Foundation for ActionSustainable Development Politics and Intergovernmental RelationsIntergovernmental Relations in the International ContextIGR Within NationsPolitical Culture as a Key Component in the Mix that Makes Up Intergovernmental RelationsBeyond Competition to Cooperation at the Local-Government LevelLeaving the Ego at the Door to Overcome TensionsGrowing Your Own Capacity and Keeping It by SharingPublic Participation and Political FeasibilityNot One Kind of Involvement but a Spectrum of ParticipationWhy Does It Matter? Participation as an Active Element in Sustainable DevelopmentBarriers to Participation: The Obvious and the Less VisibleDangers and Cautions: Not Always as Obvious as Red Octagon or Yellow Triangle SignsFoundations for Enhanced Participation: Challenge of Listening and EducatingThe Politics of NGOs: Complex Relationships with Essential PartnersMustering Collaboration Among the Overwhelming Numbers of NGOsCompetition between International and Local NGOs in Advancing Sustainable DevelopmentManagement Differences between Government Agencies and NGOsThe Complexity of CoalitionsConclusionChapter 8. Ethical Feasibility: Values That Matter on the GroundMichigan Center for the Environment and Children’s HealthA Network of Centers to Address Children’s Environmental HealthThe Michigan Center for the Environment and Children’s Health (MCECH) Targeting AsthmaLok Jumbish, Jaipur, India: Education That Includes Girls Through Community Engagement School Mapping: Engaging and Getting to Know the CommunityAn Empowering Teaching Approach through Iterative Teacher TrainingEngaging Traditionally Disenfranchised Women in the LJ MovementServing Traditionally Excluded GroupsNonformal Education to Accommodate Girls with Special CircumstancesInclusion of Children with DisabilitiesReaching Out to Engage and Provide Accommodations for Children with Particular ChallengesRajasthan’s Equity Efforts in the 21st Century: Beyond Literacy to Meet Future NeedsContext Counts: Development Challenges in Very Different SettingsThe Case of Detroit and Ethical Feasibility in a Large CitySpecial Challenges in Rural Areas Whether in Rajasthan, India or Walkerton, Ontario CanadaSustainable Development Ethics and the Commission CommitmentsCorruption and Perverse IncentivesLaw and Ethics as Related but Different IssuesCorruption, Whatever Else It May Be Called Weighs Heaviest on the PoorExclusion and Discrimination: The Need to Move to Inclusion and MoreThe Ongoing Need to Address Discrimination Against WomenPoverty and Exclusion: Unseen and Too Often Out of Mind Exclusion Also Means a Lack of a Voice in Key Decisions or Serious Consideration of Impacts by the Decisions of OthersExclusion by Age: Issues of Children and the ElderlyExclusion of Persons with DisabilitiesIndigenous Peoples: Long Excluded, but Now Teaching the Rest of UsInternalizing the Excluded: Areas of Inclusive ActionPromoting Food Security and Nutrition While Promoting EquityEnvironmental and Climate Justice: More Than Simply Stopping Bad DevelopmentSustainable Development and Environmental EquitySustainable Development and Climate JusticeClimate Justice Challenges: Massive Flooding in Pakistan Climate Justice and Children: Intergenerational Impacts of Unsustainable BehaviorProtecting Vulnerable Workers: Lessons from Climate Change and COVID-19Politics and Problematic Policy Responses to Environmental Justice and Climate JusticeNegotiating Cultures and “Ethical Discontinuities”ConclusionChapter 9. Cultural Feasibility: One Size Does Not Fit AllChimney Rock, California: A Case of Culture as Casualty of DevelopmentGanados del Valle, New Mexico: Culture as an AssetEnterprises Spun Off from Ganados del ValleGanados del Valle in More Recent TimesContext Counts, But Too Often We Do Not Recognize ItCulture as an Asset for Sustainable DevelopmentTribal Co-Management Agreements with Federal and State Governments: Active Engagement with Indigenous Culture as an Asset in Contemporary Policy ActionChief Seattle Club: Culture as an Asset in Serving Native-American/Alaska NativesIntegrating Indigenous Food Systems with Modern Knowledge for Erga Omnes, to Benefit AllCulture as Casualty: Adverse Impacts from Unsustainable DevelopmentCulture under Pressure: The Case of FijiStress, Loss, and Cultural CollisionsIndigenous Cultural Regeneration and SurvivalThe Makah Tribe: Cultural Revival and Regeneration ChallengedChallenges in Culturally Sensitive Sustainable Development ImplementationOrganizational Culture: The Other Kind of CultureTaking Cultural Feasibility Seriously: Diébédo Francis Kéré, Burkina Faso, and a Legacy of Ancient Knowledge ConclusionChapter 10. Ideas That Matter and Actions That Matter Even MoreThe Principles of Sustainable Development: Serious Commitments to Guide Action The Feasibility Framework in ActionThe Urgency of Implementing Sustainable Development to Address the Climate CrisisLessons Along the WayContext Counts, So Why Do We So Often Forget that Reality?Nimble, Multi-functional, Infrastructure and InstitutionsEffective Intergovernmental and Cross-Sectoral Collaboration at the Core: So Obvious, but So Often NeglectedGenuine Community Engagement: From Trust to Collaborative ActionThe Ubiquitous Role of EducationIndigenous Knowledge as a Guide to Protecting the Global CommonsThe Centrality of Integrating all Three Pillars of Sustainable DevelopmentIndexAbout the Authors