Balance Between Local Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: A Multi-level Governance Perspective

Hawkins, Christopher V.; Kwon, Sung‐Wook; Bae, Jungah

doi:10.1080/01900692.2015.1035787

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“…Local governments may undertake environmental actions when there are co-benefitsfor example, reduction in energy costs (Svara, Read, & Moulder, 2011), increased public health (Bloomberg & Aggarwala, 2008), or job production (Homsy, 2018b;Kostka & Hobbs, 2013). Such reframing of a commons problem can counter negative political attitudes and build consensus (Hawkins, Kwon, & Bae, 2016) and stimulate local action because residents see concerns as important to them (Metz & Below, 2009).…”

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“…• Sanctioning and coordinating authority. Multilevel governance needs a sanctioning and coordinating power to help frame the problem, determine the distribution of externalities, provide organizational structures, and enforce solutions on decentralized actors (Hawkins et al, 2016;Homsy & Warner, 2013). This authority provides a coordinating role to encourage local innovation and to engage multiple actors.…”

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Multilevel Governance: Framing the Integration of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policymaking

Homsy

Liu

Warner

2018

International Journal of Public Administration

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Scholars embrace multilevel governance as an analytical framework for complex problems, such as climate change or water pollution. However, the elements needed to comprehensively operationalize multilevel governance remain undefined in the literature. This paper describes the five necessary ingredients to a multilevel framework: sanctioning and coordinating authority, provision of capacity, knowledge co-production, framing of co-benefits, and inclusion of civil society. The framework's analytical utility is illustrated through two contrasting case exampleswatershed management in the U.S. and air quality management in China. The framework balances local and central actors, which can promote a more effective governance regime.

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Section: Components Of a Multilevel Governance Frameworkmentioning

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Multilevel Governance: Framing the Integration of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policymaking

Homsy

Liu

Warner

2018

International Journal of Public Administration

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“…As U.S. cities in the border region continue to grow and develop, some have elected to become involved in collective efforts to address the deleterious aspects of global climate change and promote sustainable development. Becoming involved in collective efforts such as climate change networks leads communities to become engaged in policy actions to promote sustainability in their communities [43][44][45]. One such initiative that encourages local governments to commit to this type of policy action is ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability (formerly, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives).…”

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Municipal Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Evidence from U.S. Cities on the U.S.-Mexico Border

2019

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In this study, we examine municipal efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by focusing on emissions from vehicular sources. We compare what different cities have done to address the problem of GHG emissions from vehicles by using atmospheric data to assess the impact policy efforts have had on actual GHGs. We focus on an area overlooked in the literature, U.S. cities on the U.S.-Mexico transborder region. Using GHG vehicular emissions data from the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) and an ordinary least square model, this research foundcities have reduced levels of GHGs, especially when municipal efforts are supported by state policies to reduce GHG emissions. While GHG in general are transboundary and a global issue by nature, communities in the U.S. border region are directly impacted by vehicular emissions due to cross-border trade that is not prevalent in interior communities. However, one of the main limitations in this type of study is the lack of reportable environmental data for less populated cities on the U.S.-Mexico border. Future studies need to develop alternative approaches to sustainability that could provide a more nuanced examination of some of the challenges or success in the U.S. transborder region.

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“…However, despite increasing attention to local policy initiatives, econometric studies on the determinants of implementing local government policies, especially city level innovation policies, are scarce. Regarding environmental sustainability policies, some empirical studies examine the determinants of such policies at city and county levels in the USA, focusing on political factors (Hawkins et al 2016;Laurian et al 2017). However, no studies analyze the determinants of regional innovation policies except for a study of state-level Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program (Lanahan and Feldman 2015).…”

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“…For example, local governments are increasingly involved recently in the development of environmental sustainability policies. Accordingly, a couple of empirical studies investigate the determinants of implementation of such policies at city and county levels in the USA, focusing on political factors (Hawkins et al 2016;Laurian and Crawford 2016;Laurian et al 2017). More generally, Foucault et al (2008), using a dynamic panel data model of French municipalities, examine interactions between neighboring municipalities regarding primary and investment expenditures.…”

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What Shapes Local Innovation Policies? Empirical Evidence from Japanese Cities

Okamuro

Nishimura

2020

Administrative Sciences

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Increasing attention has been paid to regional innovation systems. However, previous studies have so far only focused on (the regional impact of) national policies or specific regions. Despite increasing attention to regional and local innovation policies, no studies have been carried out to date on the factors of implementation and design of local research and development (R&D) subsidy programs at the city level. Our research fills this gap by using information on R&D subsidy programs from local authorities in Japan collected via websites and our original survey. Thus, our research aims at empirically investigating the determinants of both implementation and design of local R&D subsidy programs at the city level (length and upper limit of subsidies, and flexibility of subsidy conditions) considering both demand- and supply-side factors. We employ probit models for basic empirical estimations and provide some robustness checks. The empirical results suggest that, after controlling for city type and population size, supply-side factors including local government conditions significantly affect the implementation of public R&D subsidy programs. In contrast, we find that demand-side factors matter more for the design of subsidy programs than supply-side factors.

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Balance Between Local Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: A Multi-level Governance Perspective

Cited by 38 publications

References 40 publications

Multilevel Governance: Framing the Integration of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policymaking

Multilevel Governance: Framing the Integration of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policymaking

Municipal Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Evidence from U.S. Cities on the U.S.-Mexico Border

What Shapes Local Innovation Policies? Empirical Evidence from Japanese Cities

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