Trends in Resource Capacity and Collaboration for City Sustainability: Implications for Planning Research and Practice

Hawkins, Christopher V.; Krause, Rachel M.

doi:10.1080/14649357.2021.1866432

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“…Given capacity limitations and risk intolerance, cooperation and coordination across jurisdictions are crucial to maximize the benefit from these federal investments (Hawkins & Krause, 2021; Park et al, 2021). Standing up a new sustainability program—whether it is home weatherization in lower‐income neighborhoods, solar installations, EV networks, community heat and flooding resilience investments, or green infrastructure—will require community, corporate, and intergovernmental partners.…”

Section: Climate Policy Implementation Is Regional and Requires Colla...mentioning

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Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?

Deslatte,

Siciliano,

Krause

2023

Public Administration Review

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State and local governments in the United States are the implementation agents for a vast swath of federal policies. As the country embarks on an unprecedented foray into fiscal federalism to combat climate change, we face a stark reality: many local governments are not ready. Drawing from recent data and evidence on local sustainability activities, we argue policymakers and managers at all levels of governance need to apply the lessons learned over the last two decades of sub‐national climate efforts. For local government managers working in the 21st century, climate change will likely be a defining social dilemma of their lifetimes. After years of inaction, the U.S. has taken a major step in trying to meet its greenhouse‐gas mitigation pledges. But implementation requires understanding both the opportunities and opportunity costs posed by such generational investments.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Section: Climate Policy Implementation Is Regional and Requires Colla...mentioning

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Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?

Deslatte,

Siciliano,

Krause

2023

Public Administration Review

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“…When studying US cities, as we are, scholars often examine the benefits of scale. Larger cities have larger budgets that they can use to make pro-environmental investments (Hsu 2018; Sun et al 2017), they are in a better position to collaborate with other cities (Hawkins and Krause 2021), and they can take advantage of economies of scale for such investments as clean energy and transportation infrastructure (Sun et al 2017; Wu, Levinson and Sarkar 2019). On the flip side, scholars examining smaller cities have found that they face both greater risk due to climate change as well as less capacity to adapt than larger cities (Paterson et al 2017).…”

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Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans

Bery

Haddad

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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Why do some municipalities adopt ambitious climate action plans and others do not? This study examines United States cities that have signed the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, to identify the factors that have led some of them (37 percent, 63 cities) to adopt ambitious (Net Zero) climate action plans. It finds that two factors make the most difference: (a) whether the city has a paid city employee (or department) dedicated to environmental/energy management and (b) whether the city has a university. Other factors, such as per capita income, city revenue, state funding, size, partisan orientation, and membership in international climate networks, did not significantly influence how ambitious a city's climate action plan was. This study combines a statistical analysis of the signatory cities with a qualitative study Middletown Connecticut to explain why city energy managers and universities can have such a positive effect on city climate action.

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Trends in Resource Capacity and Collaboration for City Sustainability: Implications for Planning Research and Practice

Cited by 2 publications

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Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?

Local government managers are on the frontlines of climate change: Are they ready?

Walking the Talk: Why Cities Adopt Ambitious Climate Action Plans

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