Implementing City Sustainability: Overcoming Administrative Silos to Achieve Functional Collective Action - Couverture souple

Krause, Rachel M.; Hawkins, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1439919216 ISBN 13 : 9781439919217

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2021

Synopsis

Implementing City Sustainability examines the structures and processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being within their communities. As American cities adopt sustainability objectives, they are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination, and collective action challenges to achieve successful implementation.

Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning, public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply it to local sustainability to explain how cities can--and in some cases do--organize to successfully administer changes to achieve complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations. Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research design and original data to provide a national overview of cities' sustainability arrangements, as well as eight city case studies highlighting different means of organizing to achieve functional collective action.

By focusing not just on what cities are doing to further sustainability, but also on how they are doing it, the authors show how administrative structure enables--or inhibits--cities to overcome functional divides and achieve successful outcomes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rachel M. Krause is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas. Christopher V. Hawkins is an Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida and co-author of Disaster Resiliency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439919216
• ISBN 13: 9781439919217
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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