Title: Potentiale und Herausforderungen von Steuerungsformen gemeinschaftlichen Handelns für eine nachhaltige Kommunalentwicklung
Description: This work constitutes a contribution towards research on sustainability. Local development processes which are supported by commonly coordinated steering forms of joint activities are often caught between expectations and reality. Local stakeholder groups strive towards reaching capacity-building authority, as well as decision-making, financing and administrative authority for their networks and sustainability projects. Frequently, this desire for participation is not mirrored in the actual circumstances. Many development concepts in this context demonstrate their weakness at the point in which they are applied, or at which they should demonstrate long-term success. The associated problems mainly occur when transfer payments are either involved or are too low and/or expire, or when external supporting partner organizations terminate their consultancy work. The previously initiated projects are often left unfinished, supporting infrastructure breaks down, follow-on financing becomes necessary and the originals problems are not solved or new ones are created. Sustainability fails to materialize. Despite the fact that international cooperation for sustainable development can boost the occasional showcase projact, sustainable development, in the strict sense of the word, is lacking in the majority of underlying concepts, as they are not directed towards empowerment, competitiveness, ownership and sustainability in the valorization of human and local potential..