Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"This book provides insight into the unique role that capital cities can and should play as leaders in sustainability. The authors show persuasively that capital cities are different from other types of cities: they are home to the national government, numerous networks of NGSOs, media and think-tanks, and are linked though embassies to the wider global community. Capital cities can--potentially-- stimulate the process of developing sustainability solutions in novel ways which in turn can be disseminated throughout the rest of the country, and the international community."
Lisa Benton-Short, professor of Geography, George Washington University
"This book presents a conceptually stimulating and data rich insight into the sustainability policies and practices in the national capitals throughout the world. Does a well-functioning capital city hub necessarily lead to effective sustainability efforts? Is sustainability agenda in the capitals enabled or constrained by their political role? What are the factors of success or failure? The book makes a first attempt to answer these questions by placing the national capitals on the global map of urban sustainability."
Andrey N. Petrov, President, International Arctic Social Sciences Association and Associate Professor of Geography, University of Northern Iowa, USA