ABSTRACT
With growing interest in developing sustainability policies among national, state and local governments as well as the private sector, the options available to encourage sustainability best practice are many and varied, with potentially substantial differences in likelihood of success across different implementation contexts. In the context of this chapter, a sustainability policy is a plan or specifi ed course of action that guides the decisions and behaviours of individuals with regard to the goal of improving sustainability within an organization. Sustainability policies are typically supported by specifi c programmes, or packages of actions and associated resources directed to achieve specifi c objectives within the larger policy. This chapter defi nes, compares and contrasts these generalized options to provide key information for designing effective sustainability policies to have maximal effect in different contexts.1
