Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research. Climate Change and City Hall, Volume 15, Number 1, 2013.

摘要

Local governments are uniquely positioned to instigate a range of activities that directly address sustainability and climate change, from land use to electricity consumption. Municipal governments have tools to directly address energy efficiency, conservation, and carbon emissions through their well-established role in regulation and service delivery. Nevertheless, in their efforts to do so, they are certain to face challenges of scale, policy instrument design, and governance. The research articles in this symposium address the scale, policy instruments, and governance structures of local sustainability efforts from a variety of perspectives. James H. Svara, Tanya C. Watt, and HeeSoun Jang analyze the kinds of sustainability actions undertaken at the city scale based on a national survey by the International City/County Management Association. They identify the local sustainability policy instruments employed by cities and then investigate what governmental institutions, community demographics, and local policy priorities are associated with city sustainability efforts.