Managing Sustainable Development

Managing Sustainable Development does an outstanding job of analyzing the principles of sustainable development and summarizing many of the best practices internationally in bringing them to fruition. Sustainable development involves living within the carrying capacity of the earth's natural systems, while maintaining and improving the quality of life for people around the globe. Beyond its analysis and summary, however, this book contains the best thinking yet seen by this reviewer on how to link research and action into a global learning network. Those of us who practice community development need to know what kind of research will make our work more informed and effective. Researchers, likewise, seek practical application of their hard-won findings. Everyone involved in promoting sustainable development desires a link with the many achievements around the world. Carley and Christie demonstrate how that might happen, by creating and connecting "research-action networks". Changing the paradigm may seem impossible to some; this book offers a practical plan to accomplish that essential task.