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The Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities provides a comprehensive
framework for understanding and applying the methods and strategies
for cities to attain a more sustainable future.Against a backdrop
of unprecedented levels of urbanization, 21st century cities across
the globe share mutual concerns for the challenges they face. This
Companion focuses on the importance of the city as a critical
building block for a more sustainable future within broader
subnational, national and continental contexts, and ultimately,
within a global systems context. It discusses the sustainable
strategies being devised, as well as the methods and tools for
achieving them. Examples of social, economic, political and
environmental sustainable policy strategies are presented and the
extent to which they actually increase sustainability is analyzed.
Topics explored include compact cities and urban metabolism;
environmental justice; water resources planning and the impact of
climate change on industry, food policy and urban design. This book
will appeal to academics and students of planning, public policy
and administration, as well as environmental and urban studies. It
will also be of interest to those working in urban planning and
sustainable development professions. Contributors: L. Baker, T.
Banerjee, E.J Blakley, H. Blanco, M.R. Boswell, H. Brattelbo, R.F.
Callahan, K. Chapple, N. Cohen, E. Dreps, D.J. Fiorino, A.I. Greve,
R.J. Jackson, B. Jimenez Cisneros, C. Kennedy, G.A. Keoleian, D.A.
Mazmanian, A. Miller, J.P. Newell, P. Newman, L.K. Nijaki, C.P.
Ozawa, M. Pastor, M. Pisano, K.E. Portney, A. Rose, T.L. Seale, B.
Tomlinson, K.S. Wolske, M. Xu, R. Zimmerman, M. Zint
The Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities provides a comprehensive
framework for understanding and applying the methods and strategies
for cities to attain a more sustainable future.Against a backdrop
of unprecedented levels of urbanization, 21st century cities across
the globe share mutual concerns for the challenges they face. This
Companion focuses on the importance of the city as a critical
building block for a more sustainable future within broader
subnational, national and continental contexts, and ultimately,
within a global systems context. It discusses the sustainable
strategies being devised, as well as the methods and tools for
achieving them. Examples of social, economic, political and
environmental sustainable policy strategies are presented and the
extent to which they actually increase sustainability is analyzed.
Topics explored include compact cities and urban metabolism;
environmental justice; water resources planning and the impact of
climate change on industry, food policy and urban design. This book
will appeal to academics and students of planning, public policy
and administration, as well as environmental and urban studies. It
will also be of interest to those working in urban planning and
sustainable development professions. Contributors: L. Baker, T.
Banerjee, E.J Blakley, H. Blanco, M.R. Boswell, H. Brattelbo, R.F.
Callahan, K. Chapple, N. Cohen, E. Dreps, D.J. Fiorino, A.I. Greve,
R.J. Jackson, B. Jimenez Cisneros, C. Kennedy, G.A. Keoleian, D.A.
Mazmanian, A. Miller, J.P. Newell, P. Newman, L.K. Nijaki, C.P.
Ozawa, M. Pastor, M. Pisano, K.E. Portney, A. Rose, T.L. Seale, B.
Tomlinson, K.S. Wolske, M. Xu, R. Zimmerman, M. Zint
A new edition with new and updated case studies and analysis that
demonstrate the trend in U.S. environmental policy toward
sustainability at local and regional levels. This analysis of U.S.
environmental policy offers a conceptual framework that serves as a
valuable roadmap to the array of laws, programs, and approaches
developed over the last four decades. Combining case studies and
theoretical discussion, the book views environmental policy in the
context of three epochs: the rise of command-and-control federal
regulation in the 1970s, the period of efficiency-based reform
efforts that followed, and the more recent trend toward sustainable
development and integrated approaches at local and regional levels.
It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the new approaches and
places these experiments within the larger framework of an emerging
trend toward community sustainability. Toward Sustainable
Communities assesses environmental policy successes and failures at
the subnational, regional, and state levels and offers eight case
studies of policy arenas in which transformations have been
occurring-from air and water pollution control and state and local
climate change policy to open space preservation, urban growth, and
regional ecosystem management. It discusses the various meanings of
sustainability and whether the concept can serve as a foundation
for a new era of environmental policy. The second edition has been
substantially updated, with five new chapters (including the
chapter on climate change) and all other chapters revised and
shortened. It is suitable as a primary or secondary text for
environmental policy courses and as a resource for scholars and
policymakers. Contributors Elisa Barbour, Michele M. Betsill,
Daniel J. Fiorino, Marc Gaden, Lamont C. Hempel, Michael E. Kraft,
William D. Leach, Mark Lubell, Daniel A. Mazmanian, Nicole
Nakagawa, Kent E. Portney, Daniel Press, Paul A. Sabatier, Barry G.
Rabe, Michael B. Teitz
Implementation and Public Policy includes a thorough explication of
the implementation process. The framework delineates five distinct
stages beginning with formulation through revision and
reformulation. Five separate cases of implementation are examined:
clean air, school desegregation, new towns, compensatory education,
and coastal zone management. Useful at undergraduate, graduate, and
professional levels, this book carved an important niche in the
field of implementation studies when first published in 1983 by
Scott Foresman Publishers. The extensive "Postscript" written for
the UPA edition, takes note of new approaches and changing emphases
in this field since 1983. In 1997, the book won the Aaron Wildavsky
Enduring Contribution Award of the Public Policy Section of the
American Political Science Association. This award is reserved for
books that are published in the last ten to twenty years that
continue to influence the study of public policy.
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