The Hidden Success of Three Sustainability Policies

In The Hidden Successes of Three Sustainability Policies, Goswami and Gerritsen start with the international and national context... they demonstrate that the very idea of sustainability can, if only gradually, impact on the decision-making culture of an organisation if given sufficient support from "above". Sustainability is very much an idea in search of a leader, it has its own terms and conditions for success...

The material the authors gather to reach their conclusions is impressive - and presented with both clarity and precision... After all, it's one thing to develop policies that are relevant and feasible but quite another to ensure their acceptability. It's a strength of The Hidden Successes that it incorporates politics and legitimacy questions into the analysis, not to make a case against sustainability but rather to remind us, as is the case with all public policy, that material interests, professional prejudices and ideological warriors are all at the table making life difficult for those seeking a long term, strategic approach to government.