Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2017
Abstract
By 2030, it is projected that 7 out of 10 people will be urban dwellers. However, as more people migrate to cities in search of a better life and urban populations grow, housing, food, water, air, transportation, energy, and human well-being issues intensify. Issues of climate change, energy use, agricultural land and watershed protection, and transportation, among others, already stretch beyond the budget frames, municipal geography, and election cycles of most local government managers. Pressures from non-governmental organizations and society as whole are forcing the local business community as well as government officials to work together in solving some the most challenging sustainability issues and wicked problems cities face. Some US city have been early adopters of implementing sustainable development initiatives successfully and more rapidly than others; while a good majority of cities still lag behind or have not implemented sustainable development initiatives as successfully. The basis of this research is to provide a better understanding of the challenges, barriers, and accelerators of city level sustainable development implementation that are successful and what processes sustainability managers are adopting to lead their communities to a sustainable city.
Keywords
management, sustainable development, Weatherhead School of Management, sustainable development, implementation, multi-stakeholder processes, collaboration, planning, city management, social equity, environment, economic development
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Department/Center
Design & Innovation
Recommended Citation
Clay, Larry Jr., "Success Towards Sustainable Development in Lagging US Cities? A Grounded Study" (2017). Student Scholarship. 413.
https://commons.case.edu/studentworks/413