Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Sustainability Assessment of Policy -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.Rationale -- 1.3.Understanding Discourses -- ch. 2 Sustainability Climate of Policy -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Emergence of Policy Sustainability -- 2.3.Concept of Sustainability -- 2.4.Sustainability Initiative -- ch. 3 Characterizing Sustainability Assessment -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Resource System -- 3.3.Social System -- 3.4.Global System -- 3.5.Target Achievement -- 3.6.Accommodating Tradition and Culture -- 3.7.Selection of Instrument -- 3.8.Integration of Decision System -- 3.9.Responding to International Cooperation -- ch. 4 Considerations of Sustainability Assessment -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Socioeconomic Consideration -- 4.3.Consideration of System Peculiarities -- 4.4.Consideration of Component Peculiarities -- ch. 5 Issues of Sustainability Assessment -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Issues Related to Society -- 5.3.Issues Related to Policy Discourse --

Contents note continued: 5.4.Issues Related to Actors -- 5.5.Black Boxing -- ch. 6 Components of Sustainability Assessment -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Social Adequacy -- 6.3.Scientific Adequacy -- 6.4.Status Quo -- 6.5.Policy Process -- 6.6.Policy Stimulus -- 6.7.Participation -- 6.8.Sectoral Growth -- 6.9.Resource Exploitation -- 6.10.Traditional Practices -- 6.11.Role of Actors -- 6.12.Framework Assessment -- 6.13.Scope Evaluation -- 6.14.Evaluation of Implementation -- 6.15.Instrument Evaluation -- 6.16.Structural Evaluation -- 6.17.Cause Evaluation -- 6.18.Cost Evaluation -- 6.19.Impact Assessment -- 6.20.Quantitative Approach -- 6.21.Anthropogenic Evaluation -- 6.22.Influence of Other Policies -- ch. 7 Linkages of Sustainability Assessment -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Parallel Linkage -- 7.3.Linkage of Ascendancy -- 7.4.Linkage of Descendancy -- 7.5.Linkage of Hierarchy -- 7.6.Horizontal Linkage -- 7.7.Quasi-political Linkages -- 7.8.External Linkage -- 7.9.Market Linkage --

Contents note continued: 7.10.Evaluation of Link to the Past -- 7.11.Actors and Story Line -- 7.12.Practices and Story Line -- 7.13.Reflection of Image of Change -- 7.14.Integrating Information -- 7.15.Forecasting -- 7.16.Assessing Options -- 7.17.Post-decision Assessment -- ch. 8 Assessment of Policy Instruments -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Approaches of Implementation -- 8.3.Attributes of Instrument -- 8.4.Choice of Instruments -- 8.5.Instruments as a Component of Policy Design -- 8.6.Addressing the Implementation of Instruments -- ch. 9 Social Perspectives of Sustainability -- 9.1.Introduction -- 9.2.Participation Evaluation -- 9.3.Process Evaluation -- 9.4.Retrospective Policy Evaluation -- 9.5.Evaluation of Policy Focus -- 9.6.Deductive Policy Evaluation -- 9.7.Comparative Modeling -- 9.8.Deductive Modeling -- 9.9.Optimizing Perspectives -- 9.10.Political Perspectives -- ch. 10 Factors of Sustainability Assessment -- 10.1.Introduction -- 10.2.Actor as Policy Factor --

Contents note continued: 10.3.Global Resource Factor -- 10.4.Local Resource Factors -- 10.5.Participation Factor -- 10.6.Participation Catalyst -- 10.7.Economic Factors -- 10.8.Administrative Factor -- 10.9.Market Influence -- 10.10.Historical Factor -- 10.11.Other Factors -- ch. 11 Tools for Sustainability Assessment -- 11.1.Introduction -- 11.2.Indicators for Evaluating Resource Dimension -- ch. 12 Problems in Sustainability Assessment -- 12.1.Introduction -- 12.2.Boundary Problem -- 12.3.Problem with Social Concern -- 12.4.Role of Science -- 12.5.Institutional Difficulty -- 12.6.Implementation Problem -- ch. 13 Discussion and Recommendation -- 13.1.Discussion -- 13.2.Recommendation -- 13.3.Importance.