Governing Urban Sustainability: Comparing Cities in the USA by Lisa Pettibone

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By Lisa Pettibone

In her examine 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 stories of six towns within the united states and Germany: manhattan, Portland, Seattle, Berlin, Hamburg, and Heidelburg. Drawing on seventy five interviews, rfile research, and a bilingual literature evaluation, the publication analyzes how sustainability is politically built in urban strategic plans and sustainability symptoms. the quantity offers a accomplished advent to the foundations of sustainability, discusses the major governance tools correct 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 modifications, towns’ reports in either nations are comparable. Political sustainability on the urban point differs in different vital methods from educational rules of sustainability. ultimately, it proposes that sustainability-minded teams could be a key hyperlink to attach city sustainability in perform to theoretical concepts.

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