Policymakers and researchers have endeavored to conceive of new ways of thinking about sustainability, and recent experiences in Asian countries offer new lessons. This chapter examines challenges and constraints regarding sustainability policymaking, with a focus on resilience, innovation, and civic enterprise in three of Asia’s most economically dynamic cities. While the experiences of these cities are instructive with respect to technical and managerialist interventions targeting ring-fenced issues, broader systemic threats to sustainability implicate global narrative dynamics and their diffusion to local contexts – as evident in SDG localization. After introducing and applying the RICE Framework, this chapter reflects critically on the epistemic foundations of sustainability policy that harbor vestiges of a troubled developmental era, particularly how they perpetuate power imbalances and exclusionary policy epistemics.
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Hartley, Kris. (2025). “Public Policy for Sustainability in Asia.” In Poocharoen, O., Boossabong, P., and Chamchong, P. (eds.), Handbook of Public Policy in Asia (pp. 135-148). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035319602.00019