Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-38783-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Advances in Urban Sustainability

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy solutions to promote sustainability. Cities are taking a leading role in defining a sustainable future at a time when national, state, and regional governments in several countries do not provide sufficient leadership.

Capital cities stand out among cities as likely leading drivers in the effort to empower sustainable innovation as they provide a hub for connecting a variety of key constituencies. While acknowledging the successes capital cities have achieved, the international, multi-disciplinary contributors to this work discuss how there is room to do more and improve. The promotion of specific sustainability policies in crucial areas such as clean water provision, high tech innovation, public procurement contracting, and improving flood control in capital cities is examined through various global case studies. The examples range from relatively rich capital cities, such as Copenhagen, where the well-financed hub would be expected to succeed in generating sustainable policies, to poorer cities such as Phnom Penh, where such an optimistic outcome can seem less likely.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orttung, Robert W.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Capital Cities: Hubs that Stimulate Innovative Sustainability Policy – Robert Orttung 2: Hal Wolman 3: Measuring Sustainability – Stanislav Shmelev 4: Moving the Capital to Promote Sustainability Innovations: Analyzing Cairo’s Future Plans - Sahar Attia 5: Implementing EU-Required Procurement Contracting Clauses to Advance Sustainability Policies in Copenhagen – Marta Andrecka and Alexandra Horvathova 6: Promoting High-Tech Innovation in Stockholm, Anna Helm and Nicole Forsberg 7: Delivering Clean Water in an African Capital – Jennifer Lessick 8: Responding to Floods in Hanoi - Ly Nguyen and Linda Yarr 9: Phnom Penh: An Unsustainable Capital City - Anthony Bigio 10: Conclusion - Opportunity Missed: What Capital Cities Need To Do to Achieve their Potential – Robert Orttung

Über Autor(innen)

Robert W. Orttung is Research Director at Sustainable GW and Research Professor at the Elliott School for International Affairs, the George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.