Achieving Institutional Cooperation for Implementation of Sustainable Development Plans and Strategies

Abstract

Thick sustainable development plans and strategies are gathering dust around the world, soon to be forgotten, and likely to be thrown away with the next serious housecleaning. This is so lamentably because many sustainable development plans and strategies frequently fail to be implemented, become quickly outdated, are reinvented by the next group with responsibility to develop a plan or strategy. This next group is often unfamiliar with previous plans and strategies and sometimes spends enormous amounts of energy fighting the same fights and drawing similar conclusions about what needs to be done to move a place to a sustainable future only to have the new plan become another in a series of documents created by wishful thinking. [...]