ABSTRACT
Part of the concept of globalization in sustainable development is that one model for social matters, one model for environmental matters, and one model for economic matters can be the best practice for the Global South, just as it has been for the Global North. The environmental impact statement serves as a representative example of a tool of best practice from the Global North that has been introduced in the Global South in form, but the substance of which has neither been examined nor tailored to the cultures in which it has been introduced, thus leaving it as a tool of form, without local substance, and consequently, implemented with questionable results. Using case study fieldwork in Mongolia as evidence, this chapter demonstrates the shortcomings, if not the impossibility, of one size fits all best practices in the Global South.
