Strategies for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Three categories of strategies designed to give effect to sustainable development and to the idea of common but differentiated responsibilities are discussed in this chapter: transfer mechanisms; reform of the structures of and processes within the globalized political economy; and the application of economic instruments to environmental protection. These are, however, not simply technical or regulatory exercises. As the discussion here shows, they involve political and social issues which relate to competing interests, the distribution of costs and benefits, and implementation.