SUSTAINABILITY AND DECISION‐MAKING

Alex Farrell

Review of Policy Research, 1999, vol. 16, issue 3‐4, 36-74

Abstract: Sustainability has been advanced as an important societal goal which governments should adopt and implement. However, sustainability is a complex concept and one for which afirm consensus definition does not appear likely any time soon. This article briefly provides the conceptual background for a discussion of sustainability and then reviews one of the first attempts by the U.S. government to implement a policy specifically designed to promote sustainability, the Environmental Protection Agency's Sustainable Development Challenge Grant (SDCG) Program. The history for the program, the experience of it's first year are examined and a formal decision analysis of the problem facing the SDCG program managers is developed. Implications of this research for the SDCG and for other government policy‐making are discussed.

Date: 1999
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