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Sustainable Development Administration

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Development administration

Definition

The term “sustainable development administration” describes an aspect of public policy that is concerned with the application of the sustainable development paradigm to public administration structures, processes, and institutions. “Administration” here relates to a broad array of operational processes and discrete tasks that facilitate the development and implementation of public sector policies – though the term is also used in relation to private sector operations.

Introduction

Aligned with the definition set out above, sustainable development administration primarily refers to the institutional and administrative structures and processes within public administration that facilitate and enhance sustainable development as the global development paradigm agreed to at the international scale at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and subsequently reiterated in Rio+20 (2012) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed to by the member...

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  1. School of Global, Urban & Social Studies, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, 3000, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Hartmut Fünfgeld

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Fünfgeld, H. (2017). Sustainable Development Administration. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1171-1

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