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Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of turning international commitments and policy promises into local action. Through global examples and cases, it examines the many dimensions of sustainable development, along with practical strategies for identifying and addressing obstacles to policy implementation.
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Claudia María Vargas is Affiliated Professor of Public Administration and Senior Fellow in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University. Her publications include Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local Action; Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions: Challenges of War, Terrorism, and Civil Disorder, Caring for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and their Families: An Innovative Approach to Interdisciplinary Practice (Co-Ed.), Implementing Sustainable Development Administration: Experiences in Sustainable Development Administration (Co-Ed.), "Community Development and Micro-Enterprises: Fostering Sustainable Development," "Sustainable Development Education: Averting or Mitigating Cultural Collision," and "Women in Sustainable Development: Empowerment through Partnerships for Healthy Living." Phillip J. Cooper is Douglas and Candace Morgan Professor of Local Government at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University
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