[...]... Decade on Education for Sustainable Development, this timely volume, Sustainable Development Policy and Administration, which brings together diverse contributions dealing with the multiple facets of development, represents a rich reference vii viii Ⅲ Sustainable Development Policy and Administration document for graduate students, professors, scholars, and public and private development managers interested... Pelotas, Brazil Andrew A Zekeri Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, USA Table of Contents SECTION I: Sustainable Development: Major Dimensions and Theoretical Frameworks 1 Rethinking Sustainable Development Policy and Administration 3 M Shamsul Haque and Gedeon M Mudacumura 2 Limits of Sustainable Development as a Concept 33 M Shamsul Haque 3 Sustainable Development and Governance Policy Nexus:... Urbanization and Sustainable Development Policy and Administration 169 Josef Leitmann xiii xiv Ⅲ Sustainable Development Policy and Administration 8 What Is Sustainable Farming? 189 Eric Goewie, Júlio da Silva, João Pedro Zabaleta, and Rui Melo de Souza 9 Bridging Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Tourism to Enhance Sustainability 207 Tracy Berno 10 Sustaining Development Projects... SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: MAJOR DIMENSIONS AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS I Chapter 1 Rethinking Sustainable Development Policy and Administration M Shamsul Haque and Gedeon M Mudacumura CONTENTS Revisiting Sustainable Development: Why? 4 Controversies over Sustainable Development 5 Institutional Challenges for Sustaining Development 8 In This Volume 12 Part I Sustainable Development: ... prerequisites for sound education for sustainable development The publication of this Sustainable Development Policy and Administration is expected to contribute to the further development of the knowledge base that is required for programs on education for sustainable development The combination of the sections on concep- Foreword Ⅲ v tual review, policy and institutional analysis, and sectoral cases of applications... Dimensions and Theoretical Frameworks 13 Part II Sustainable Development: Policies and Institutions 17 Part III Sustainable Development: National and Regional Experiences 20 Part IV Sustainable Development: Current and Future Challenges 23 Part V Conclusion: Alternatives and Recommendations 27 References 30 3 4 Ⅲ M Shamsul Haque and Gedeon M Mudacumura Revisiting Sustainable. .. IV: Sustainable Development: Current and Future Challenges 19 Implementing Sustainable Development Policies: A Theoretical Discourse 419 Gedeon M Mudacumura 20 The Political Economy of Sustainable Development: The Governance Perspective 445 Anthony Barclay 21 Technology Assessment in the Journey to Sustainable Development 473 Getachew Assefa and Björn Frostell 22 Industry and Sustainable. .. basis of curious blend of ideology and bad economics” (Stiglitz, 2002: xiii) Rethinking Sustainable Development Policy and Administration Ⅲ 9 In light of the preceding concerns, the institutions engaged in furthering sustainable development face the challenging task of determining the necessary and relevant information to identify, implement, and evaluate sustainable development policies geared toward... scholars and practitioners in a coher ent structure of chapters categorized and arranged into the following sustainable development themes: major dimensions and theoretical frameworks, policies and institutions, national and regional experiences, current and future challenges, and alternatives and recommendations A brief synopsis of the chapters is provided under each theme Part I Sustainable Development: ... Ecological and Human Dimensions 49 Berhe T Costantinos 4 Systems Concept of Sustainability and Sustainable Development .85 Desta Mebratu 5 Sustaining Development: The Road from Stockholm to Johannesburg 113 O P Dwivedi and Renu Khator 6 Toward a General Theory of Sustainability 135 Gedeon M Mudacumura SECTION II: Sustainable Development: Policies and Institutions 7 Urbanization and Sustainable . Mudacumura SECTION II: Sustainable Development: Policies and Institutions 7 Urbanization and Sustainable Development Policy and Administration 169 Josef. Rethinking Sustainable Development Policy and Administration 3 M. Shamsul Haque and Gedeon M. Mudacumura 2 Limits of Sustainable Development