Urban Social Sustainability: The Case Study of Nottingham, UK

Cauvain, Jenni

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71389-2_12

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“…Politically you just have to be mindful that we have already got the workplace parking levy…, so we just have to be a little bit careful of how a clean air zone would sit alongside that… we want to do it in as sus- 'Greater Nottingham' extends beyond the area covered by the city council into the surrounding county: more than half of its population lives outside the city boundary in wealthier suburbs that form part of neighbouring districts, and many of them commute by car into the urban centre (interview 2, see also Cauvain, 2018). This is one reason why Nottingham is the least car-dependent city in England outside…”

Section: Policy Drivers and Policy Choice In Nottinghammentioning

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A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution

2022

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The literature on policy mixes tends to focus on the instruments that different jurisdictions adopt to tackle public problems, and how policies may complement or conflict with each other. Fewer studies examine the factors that influence instrument choice, particularly within multilevel contexts, despite a recognition that policy mixes to tackle similar issues vary substantially across and within countries. We present a new framework to help understand and predict policy choice in subnational governance, arguing that the level of local support for action influences the type of policy a city adopts, whereas top-down drivers shape the breadth of instruments it deploys.Drawing on in-depth stakeholder interviews and documentary analysis, we apply this framework to explain why two contrasting English cities selected their own distinctive policy mixes to combat air pollution. We suggest that where top-down drivers for action are strong but bottom-up support is muted, as was the case in Nottingham, municipal governments are likely to adopt a broad range of largely (re)distributive, informational and administrative instruments to tackle policy problems. Where local support is strong, as in Westminster, city authorities prefer to introduce regulations, because restrictions entail fewer political costs in these contexts and are more likely to be effective.

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Section: Policy Drivers and Policy Choice In Nottinghammentioning

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A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution

2022

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“…In terms of thematic focus, critical urban scholars agree that urban sustainability research remains fixed on environmental issues: 'the emphasis remains on how to align cities and city living with the constraints, possibilities and possible limits of the earth's physical environment' (Cook andSwyngedouw 2012, 1960). Those urban scholars who address social sustainability explicitly tend to agree that it is the forgotten pillar (Cauvain 2018;Davidson 2010;Dempsey et al 2011;Opp 2016). Opp (2016, 2) sums up the view from urban literature: 'even with the widespread acknowledgement of the importance of social equity, it is a concept that still remains chaotic, understudied, and even outright neglected in the growing sustainable cities literature'.…”

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Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars

Cauvain¹

2018

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Urban sustainability is an increasingly popular term used by scientists and policymakers from all disciplines, increasingly without any reference to the tradition of critical urban studies. It is often observed that the social pillar is missing, if sustainability is understood via the 'three-legged stool' concept encompassing social, economic and environmental dimensions. With a few notable exceptions, there appears to be a lack of interest also within urban scholarship to use the term 'social sustainability' to address this gap, although critical urban scholars are productive in the critique of sustainability as a social and political construct. Drawing on the idea of a politics of knowledge, this paper points to political, institutional and conceptual factors that have limited the purchase of social sustainability in research. These factors are rooted in sustainability being predominantly understood as an environmental concern, and a culture that may marginalise research subscribing to a postpositivist epistemology. This article asks whether the social pillar of sustainability could offer a discursive and symbolic tool for researchers to make the case for a critical urban epistemology in interdisciplinary research environments.

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Nottingham’s urban sustainability fix as creative environmental commercialization

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2019

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Urban Social Sustainability: The Case Study of Nottingham, UK

Cited by 3 publications

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A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution

A new framework to understand the drivers of policy mixes in multilevel contexts: The case of urban air pollution

Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars

Nottingham’s urban sustainability fix as creative environmental commercialization

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