Universities and research centres around the world have made significant progress towards establishing collaborative, interdisciplinary initiatives in sustainability science. However, more needs to be done to support the career development of junior sustainability scholars whose work is often team based and outreach oriented.
In an effort to support a transition to sustainability, urban institutions now face new challenges. Municipal level institutions design and implement sustainability action plans, climate action plans and increasingly, climate adaption projects. This article reviews the debates surrounding the role of institutions in sustainable urban governance, as well as the tools available to assess the plurality of actors working within and across institutional boundaries. Sustainability as a guiding principle in urban planning requires a fundamental reorientation of the rationalities that have governed discrete aspects of social, economic and political life in cities. Institutions, in ordering the administrative and management activities of urban governments, are critical in efforts to hasten the adoption of sustainability ideals and in the implementation of associated projects. Urban political institutions engage with new forms of environmental leadership and polycentric forms of environmental governance in response to contextually specific urban characteristics and actor constellations. The extent to which sustainability ideals are institutionalized depends on sound analysis that helps form new understandings of the ways in which human‐environment systems are coupled — and how this coupling should inform governance action in support of sustainable urban development.
into somewhat lower-performing majority non-Hispanic white schools, to the chagrin of their parents. Lung-Amam concludes, "Just as the failure of schools often shapes suburban communities, so too does their success" (p. 95). In this way, Trespassers contributes to the existing literature on the spatial stratification of suburbia, which focuses on the experiences of African Americans, by revealing the distinct stratification arising in Asian American techno-ethnoburbs.One weakness of Trespassers is its concern with differences between the Asian American and the non-Hispanic white experience in Fremont, which leads to a relatively homogeneous treatment of outcomes happening for both groups. This is problematic insofar as Fremont's residents "came from as many as 147 different countries and spoke over 150 different languages" (p. 44).
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