PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:  Principles, Frameworks, and Philippine Applications

Project Management for Sustainable Development: Principles, Frameworks, and Philippine Applications integrates conventional project management principles with the environmental, social, economic, institutional, ethical, and governance dimensions of sustainability. It challenges the traditional view that project success is determined primarily by scope, time, and cost by emphasizing benefits realization, stakeholder welfare, resilience, accountability, institutional continuity, and lasting value. The book covers the complete project life cycle, including project selection, initiation, planning, scheduling, budgeting, sustainable procurement, risk management, leadership, stakeholder participation, communication, adaptive implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and post-project sustainability. Its central contribution is the proposed Sustainable Project Management Integration Framework, which maps eight sustainability dimensions across seven project life-cycle stages and ensures that sustainability informs decisions from project identification through post-project evaluation. Grounded in Philippine realities such as public procurement, climate and disaster risks, limited institutional capacity, political transitions, resource constraints, community participation, and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals, the book uses case studies, comparative examples, practical templates, reflection activities, and application tasks to support students, educators, researchers, project managers, government officials, development planners, and practitioners in designing and managing projects that are efficient, responsible, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable.