Sustainable Development: National Aspirations, Local Implementation

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.

1: Uniting National Aspirations and Local Implementation in Sustainable Development: An Introduction; 2: Gathering Evidence: The Challenge of Assessing Sustainability after a Resettlement Programme in Zimbabwe; 3: Frameworks for Community-based Rangeland Sustainability Assessment: Lessons from the Kalahari, Botswana; 4: Sustainability Indicators and Forest Wealth in the Developing World; 5: Sustainable Water Resource Management in South Africa: A Decade of Progress?; 6: Environmental Education and Constructions of Sustainable Development in Jamaica; 7: Children, Education and Sustainable Development in Lesotho; 8: Gender Responsive Approaches to Sustainable Agricultural Extension: The Case of Namibia; 9: Sustainable Food for Sustainable Tourism in the Caribbean: Integrated Pest Management and Changes in the Participation of Women; 10: Factors Affecting the Sustainability of Cotton Production: Changing Rural Livelihoods in the North-West Region in Zimbabwe; 11: How Compatible is Customary Tenure with the Aims of the Swaziland Environmental Action Plan?; 12: Water Management for Agriculture in Tunisia: Towards Environmentally Sustainable Development; 13: Managing Indonesia's Marine Resources: the Role of Indigenous Communities; 14: Environmental Policies for Modern Agriculture?; 15: Uniting National Aspirations and Local Implementation in Sustainable Development: Lessons Learnt and Ways Forward

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.