Governing Urban Sustainability

Comparing Cities in the USA and Germany

Lisa Pettibone (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-6316-6 (ISBN)

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In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainability-minded groups-may be critical to building momentum for sustainability. The book presents in-depth case studies of six cities in the USA and Germany: New York, Portland, Seattle, Berlin, Hamburg, and Heidelburg. Drawing on 75 interviews, document analysis, and a bilingual literature review, the book analyzes how sustainability is politically constructed in city strategic plans and sustainability indicators. The volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles of sustainability, discusses the key governance instruments relevant to urban sustainability, and delivers new empirical and theoretical material on their role in a sustainability transition. It concludes that despite the national-level differences, cities’ experiences in both countries are similar. Political sustainability at the city level differs in several important ways from academic principles of sustainability. Finally, it proposes that sustainability-minded groups may be a key link to connect urban sustainability in practice to theoretical concepts.

Lisa Pettibone is a research associate at the Museum fÃ¼r Naturkunde Berlin, where she works on citizen science and participatory research, with a particular interest in transdisciplinary sustainability research. She earned her doctorate in political science at the Freie UniversitÃ¤t Berlin and has degrees from the George Washington University and New York University. Dr. Pettibone has worked in the U.S. Senate and the German Bundestag, as well as for the non-profit organization Citizens For Europe.

Contents: Part I Defining Urban Sustainability: A new framework for urban sustainability governance; Sustainability in five principles; History of sustainability in the United States and Germany. Part II Urban Sustainability Governance in Six U.S. and German Cities: The instruments of urban sustainability governance; Creating a vision: strategic plans and urban sustainability; Quantifying values with sustainability indicators; Building motivation: sustainability-minded groups. Part III Realizing Sustainability Principles in Urban Sustainability Governance: Reconceptualizing urban sustainability governance; Conclusions. Bibliography; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.02.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4724-6316-1 / 1472463161
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-6316-6 / 9781472463166
Zustand	Neuware