Urban sustainable energy development: A case study of the city of Philadelphia
| Autor: | Iraklis Argyriou, Jonathan B. Justice, William Latham, Robert Warren |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic growth
020209 energy Corporate governance Energy (esotericism) Geography Planning and Development Public policy 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law Diversification (marketing strategy) Action sites Sustainable energy Early adopter Order (exchange) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Regional science Sociology |
| Zdroj: | Local Environment. 22:1461-1478 |
| ISSN: | 1469-6711 1354-9839 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13549839.2017.1360262 |
| Popis: | Cities throughout the world are key sites for energy sustainability activities. However, analysis of such efforts to date has focused on a sub-set of atypical cities: early adopters and/or world cities. This article undertakes a case-study analysis for an ordinary city, Philadelphia, PA in order to assess the extent to which prior research provides adequate policy explanation for ordinary cities and to gain empirical insight on two under-researched aspects: policy actors, and the policy-making and implementation sites (action sites) for urban energy sustainability. Overall, the types of policy drivers, modes of governance, and enabling factors and barriers in the Philadelphia case fit with prior studies. Focusing on actors and action sites, however, offers insight on the city’s relative policy-making approach based on “non-controversy”, the key role of third-sector actors in both policy-making and implementation, and the diversification of action sites through external-level policy-making operatio... |
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