ABSTRACT
Implementing Buen Vivir at the local level can help achieve practical transformative change which also dialogues with the global discourse, provided there is support from government, and a promotion of its principles at grassroots through education, awareness, and a Vivir Bien philosophical outlook. This chapter analyses the ways in which key actors can cooperate in the achievement of Buen Vivir, continuing on the trajectory of wider political commitments to ecological sustainability and wellbeing. Buen Vivir is a contested concept, though, that is tailorable to specific context, unlike other more universal frameworks for measurement such as the Human Development Index. Human-Scale Development focuses on human needs, whereas fundamental needs in Buen Vivir include both human and environmental needs Buen Vivir requires rethinking sustainability as an endogenous approach with the support of governments and organisations for its full realisation at the community level and the attainment of Socio-Eco Wellbeing.
