Implementing Sustainable Development - 9781840649130

Implementing Sustainable DevelopmentIntegrated Assessment and Participatory Decision-making Processes\nAuthor(s): Hussein Abaza, Andrea Baranzini\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781840649130, 978-1840649130\nSynopsis\nDecision-makers increasingly seek to design environmental and development policies that will support sustainable development. Thus, practical tools to help formulate sustainable development policies and clear methods to assess their acceptability and effectiveness are urgently needed. This book contributes to meeting these needs by presenting both analytical and empirical aspects of decision-making processes. The authors explore the methods for integrating environmental and social sciences to support participatory policy design, implementation and assessment of sustainable development policies. These methods are applied, richly illustrated and discussed with reference to several c.