Mon, 02/01/2021
LAWRENCE Cities across the United States are implementing sustainability measures as a central part of their work, but some officials have struggled to overcome divisional and bureaucratic boundaries, lack of coordination and collective action dilemmas. A University of Kansas researcher has co-written a book outlining how city governments have successfully implemented functionally broad sustainability efforts.
“Implementing City Sustainability: Overcoming Administrative Silos to Achieve Functional Collective Action” by Rachel Krause, associate professor of public affairs and administration at KU, and Christopher Hawkins of the University of Central Florida, includes results of a nationwide survey of how cities organize and prioritize sustainability efforts, case studies of eight cities that have done so successfully and sets forth a theory of functional collective action that outlines four key ways often disparate city governments have been able to organize c