Description:
A city may have a sustainability plan and personnel responsible for sustainability; but, in order to understand how cities make progress on their sustainability policy goals, we need a view of the networks working to advance sustainability in the community. Using the city of Baltimore to describe and analyze the involvement of the participants in local sustainability efforts in rich detail, Eric Zeemering argues that when we think about the sustainable city, the city government is not the best unit of analysis for our investigations or policy planning.
Review Quotes:
"In Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Cities, Zeemering uses Baltimore as his backdrop to produce a careful and nuanced analysis of how sustainability is defined and implemented at the city level, and how it matters. Ideal for the classroom as well as the scholar's bookshelf."
-- Richard C. Feiock, Florida State University
"Zeemering unpacks how sustainability is defined and sustainability policy is implemented by local policymakers, community leaders, environmental advocates, and the business community. Utilizing extensive interview data, he weaves together a compelling tale of how one city with numerous challenges and limited resources grappled with this issue."
--Abigail York, Arizona State University
"This detailed case study of urban sustainability provides further justification for scholars to include Baltimore in their research... this book is highly recommended for readers interested in emerging sustainability programs and in conducting case study research. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections."--M. L. Godwin, University of La Verne, CHOICE February 2015
"A political scientist, Zeemering uses analytic tools that are not often seen outside of political science literature. I will definitely have my doctoral students read this book as an example of urban fieldwork research that can address urban problems. Students will benefit greatly from the careful descriptions of methodology and the insights Zeemering extracts to better understand the process of change in cities."
-- Carla Chifos, University of Cincinnati, Journal of Urban Affaris