Download e-book for kindle: Governing Urban Sustainability: Comparing Cities in the USA by Lisa Pettibone

By Lisa Pettibone

ISBN-10: 1472463161

ISBN-13: 9781472463166

In her learn of the interactions among instruments of city sustainability governance in key towns, Lisa Pettibone argues new factor-sustainability-minded groups-may be severe to development momentum for sustainability. The ebook offers in-depth case experiences of six towns within the united states and Germany: big apple, Portland, Seattle, Berlin, Hamburg, and Heidelburg. Drawing on seventy five interviews, record research, and a bilingual literature assessment, the publication analyzes how sustainability is politically developed in urban strategic plans and sustainability signs. the quantity presents a finished creation to the rules of sustainability, discusses the most important governance tools proper to city sustainability, and provides new empirical and theoretical fabric on their position in a sustainability transition. It concludes that regardless of the national-level adjustments, towns’ reviews in either nations are comparable. Political sustainability on the urban point differs in different very important methods from educational ideas of sustainability. eventually, it proposes that sustainability-minded teams could be a key hyperlink to attach city sustainability in perform to theoretical concepts.

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