ABSTRACT
This chapter describes three themes which concerned the challenges, opportunities and progress made in uniting national aspirations and local implementation in sustainable development. These were the measurement of sustainable development, the role of education in sustainable development and the significance of diverse voices in the practice of sustainable development. Elliot et al. use sequential air photo and GIS analysis to provide objective evidence of patterns of land cover change as a result of resettlement. An examination of community-based rangeland degradation indicators in Botswana highlights the need to look through alternative optics when environmental parameters are measured with the aim of improving management systems. Despite research providing information on both local and scientific indicators of degradation, policies remain focused on traditionally powerful degradation narratives. Ferguson and Thomas-Hope see a possible development in pedagogic practice by creating a curriculum that allows a critique of the current dominant Jamaican discourse.
