The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development.

Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies in the 1990s. Implementation efforts are increasingly using 'new' governance arrangements, including:

• use of public/private partnerships
• new policy tools
• policy transfer and benchmarking
• policy networks and involvement of stakeholder groups and...