When Do Plans Matter?

Liao, Lu; Warner, Mildred E.; Homsy, George C.

doi:10.1080/01944363.2019.1667262

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“…However, we found that a Democrat majority had no significant impact on water resource management policies. This is in contrast to studies of broader environmental policies, which find a positive political effect compared to Republican-controlled governments (Liao et al, 2020).…”

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Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies?

Homsy

Warner

2020

Utilities Policy

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What differentiates local governments that implement water policies on equity and the environment? Analyzing a 2015 national survey of 1,897 U.S. municipalities, we find municipalities that own their water utilities are more likely to report policies to protect low-income residents from disconnection and implement water resource management. Respondents from 8% of municipalities report protecting residents from disconnection. State economic regulation of municipally owned utilities and Democrat-majority municipal governments are positively associated with local policies to protect low-income households from shutoffs but bear no association with resource management. Both municipal ownership of utilities and state economic regulation may play a role in meeting certain local water policy goals.

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“…In the United States, local governments are increasingly seen as leaders of sustainability efforts (Homsy et al, 2019a;Liao et al, 2020;Opp et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2017). In this article, we focus on what differentiates municipalities that implement equity and environmental policies in drinking water provision.…”

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Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies?

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Warner

2020

Utilities Policy

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“…Although we do not directly investigate implementation, we hope that more equity-focused goals and recommendations will ultimately lead to more equitable outcomes, as Liao et al (2020) have found. In addition, we do not investigate the influence of existing equity conditions (such as in the index created by Heckert & Rosan, 2016) on plan documents.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…However, we cannot be sure that a community's interest in equity, as expressed through the plan, will have staying power. Liao et al (2020) find that the presence of a citizen task force is associated with more sustainability actions in following the adoption of a sustainability plan. Although our study does not measure the presence of equity-oriented citizen task forces in the local governments, the MAP Social Equity Committee has a strong and ongoing commitment to identifying and disseminating equity best practices throughout the state.…”

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Are We Planning for Equity?

Loh

Kim

2020

Journal of the American Planning Association

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Problem, research strategy, and findings: Social equity goals are supposed to be prioritized in planning along with economic and environmental goals, yet in practice they are often de-emphasized. We developed a publicly available plan equity evaluation tool to investigate to what extent and in what ways local governments incorporate goals and recommendations that would advance equitable outcomes in their comprehensive plans. Using plan content analysis, we find that most plans do not talk about equity, nor do they include many goals and recommendations that would advance equity. More recent plans, plans in communities with more planning capacity, plans in coastal communities, and plans with strong public participation processes have stronger equity orientations. Limitations of our study include that we had a small sample size of 48 plans in a single state, our coding was partly conducted by volunteers, and our study is limited to plan content and so did not investigate existing conditions or equitable outcomes. Takeaway for practice: Plans should make equity a guiding principle. Planning processes need to be multifaceted. Plans should identify vulnerable people and geographic areas and ensure equitable protection from hazards and equitable distribution of amenities. Future land use changes should be more transparent.

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“…Carrying out sustainable development practices [1][2][3][4][5] would ensure permanent economic ascendancy and social prosperity. Physical and political setting, type of government, and economic condition impact local governments' undertakings on the implementation of sustainability practices.…”

Section: Real-time Urban Sustainability Assessment Tools In Environmementioning

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Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Pera

2020

Sustainability

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In this systematic review, I cumulate previous research findings indicating that sustainable urbanism and networked public governance can be instrumental in carrying out extensive sustainability and resilience objectives through steering urban transformations in the direction of sustainability and resilience. Urban analytics data infrastructure, multicriteria sustainability evaluation, and sustainable performance assessment display the intricate network dynamics operational within cities, impacting urban resilience decision-making processes and leading to equitable and sustainable urban development. Throughout July 2020, I conducted a quantitative literature review of the Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases, search terms including “sustainable urban planning,” “urban sustainability assessment,” “sustainable urban governance/urban sustainability governance,” “sustainable urban development,” “sustainable/sustainability behavior,” and “environmental performance.” As I focused on research published exclusively in the past two years, only 301 various types of articles met the eligibility criteria. By removing those whose results were inconclusive, unconfirmed by replication, or too general, and because of space constraints, I selected 153, mainly empirical, sources. Future research should investigate whether the assessment of environmental sustainability performance of heterogeneous urban configurations by shared sustainability policymaking through spatial green infrastructure planning and regulations articulate sustainable urban design and governance for the development of innovative performance.

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When Do Plans Matter?

Cited by 36 publications

References 47 publications

Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies?

Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies?

Are We Planning for Equity?

Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

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