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This article explores how variations in provincial-state and city-level political cultures influence urban economic trajectory by mediating forces emerging out of global economic demand and a uniform national regulatory regime. The research shows how an integrated urban governance framework designed to analyze and compare governance modes of advanced capitalist cities through a fixed set of criteria (e.g., governing relations, governing logic, key decision makers, and political objectives) could be recalibrated through inclusion of additional parameters (e.g., local political culture and scalar location of power) so as to expand its applicability to an emerging economy, such as India, having a large, mostly poor, rural population and a high degree of internal sociocultural diversity. Competition between India's regional elites to attract global information technology (IT)-enabled "business process outsourcing" economy investments, through land-use conversion of farmlands at the outer periphery of the metropolitan regions, forms the backdrop of the research.

Chapter 01. Towards Impact Sustainability - Introduction -- Chapter 02. No Poverty - Building Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Supporting Community Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation in Resource Regions -- Chapter 03. Zero Hunger - Full Cycle Organic Waste-to Resource Compost Program Development: Addressing Poverty and Environmental Sustainabilty -- Chapter 04. Good Health and Wellbeing - Effects of ultraviolet radiation on human DNA: A point of view from Sustainable Healthcare -- Chapter 05. Quality Education - Governing Education for Sustainable Development: Towards Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education -- Chapter 06. Gender Equality - Not Just a Women's Issue: Sustainable Leadership in Male Dominated Industries – The Case of the Extractive Industry -- Chapter 07. Clean Water and Sanitation - Sustainable Use of Energy and Water Resources in the Mining sector: A Comparative Case Study of Open-pit and Alluvial Mining Technology -- Chapter 08. Affordable and Clean Energy - -eWisely- Exceptional Women in Sustainability Have Energy to Boost: Contribution of the Energy Sector to the Achievement of the SDGs -- Chapter 09. Decent work and Economic Growth - A decent day's pay for a decent day's work: Lessons to be learnt from fair trade small producers' experiences in global markets -- Chapter 10. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure - Community Capacity-building for Sustainable Resource Governance in the Small-Scale Mining Industry -- Chapter 11. Reducing inequalities - Reducing Inequalities (SDG10) in Australia's superannuation system: a multi-dimensional approach to achieving female financial equality in retirement -- Chapter 12. Sustainable Cities and Communities - SDG 11 and the New Urban Agenda: Global Sustainability Frameworks for Local Action -- Chapter 13. Responsible Consumption and Production - Sustainable Community Development through Entrepreneurship: Corporate-Based versus Wellbeing-Centered Approaches to Responsible Production -- Chapter 14. Climate Action - Climate Education: Identifying Challenges to Climate Action -- Chapter 15. Life Below Water - Introducing Fish Skin as a Sustainable Raw Material for Fashion -- Chapter 16. Life on Land - A Review of Sustainable Fashion Design Processes: Upcycling Waste Organic Yarns -- Chapter 17. Peace, Justice and Institutions - The Untapped Potential of Women for Sustainable Peace in Resource Regions -- Chapter 18. Partnerships for the Goals - Global Business Networks: Accounting for Sustainability -- Chapter 19. Impact Sustainability: Conclusions and Lessons Learned