Organizational Factors of Environmental Sustainability Implementation: An Empirical Analysis of US Cities and Counties

Laurian, Lucie; Crawford, Jan

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2016.1138403

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“…Sustainability has been central to city governance since the 1990s, resilience is a relative newcomer (Campbell 2016). While environmentalism seems to be an increasingly partisan issue, public support is a critical predictor of environmental policy implementation (Laurian and Crawford 2016). Thus, at a time when policy makers are looking for ways to make environmental policies more palatable to certain constituencies (Whittemore 2013), the fact that resilience is not inherently associated with environmental considerations may make it a more strategic frame.…”

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“…Research suggests that implementation of local environmental policies depends on public support (Laurian and Crawford 2016) and that gaining this support requires customizing the message to appeal to different cultures, priorities, and political contexts (Foss 2018; Zeemering 2009). As Lawrence et al (2010, p. 413) note, federal politicians recognize the need to “frame and target urban policies to broaden their appeal.” At the city level, recent research by Whittemore and BenDor (2018a, 2018b) highlights the importance of policy framing in urban planning, providing evidence that practicing planners strategically frame policies to increase public support for change and experimentally demonstrating that the way policies are framed can affect public opinion.…”

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Positively Resilient? How Framing Local Action Affects Public Opinion

Meerow

Neuner

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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Cities face numerous environmental challenges. Local governments need the public’s support to tackle these problems, and scholars and practitioners have suggested that framing initiatives around resilience, as opposed to sustainability, reducing vulnerability, or adaptation, may increase public support for local action. Resilience, they argue, has a better social connotation, is more positive, and less polarizing than related concepts. Empirical evidence supporting these claims is lacking. In three online survey experiments, we test whether the public is more likely to support policies when they are framed in terms of “resilience.” We also examine public conceptualizations of these different terms and whether resilience has a more positive connotation. We find significant differences in policy support, perceived importance, and interpretations of the concepts. The study confirms that framing affects policy support, but complicates claims that resilience is inherently more appealing. These findings have implications for urban research and policymaking.

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Section: Framing Urban Environmental Policiesmentioning

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Positively Resilient? How Framing Local Action Affects Public Opinion

Meerow

Neuner

2020

Urban Affairs Review

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“…Even though municipalities have the benefits of being stable organizations, they may also come across difficulties introducing cross sectoral systems, changing organizational cultures and introducing new tools. Laurian and Crawford (2016) identified that cross-departmental coordination (and complaints about silos) was not a determinant, it was, however middle managers' mediating roles between organizational hierarchies. In a later study, Laurian, Walker, and Crawford (2017), stressed the importance of sustainability being prioritized and seen as a core value, where trust-building was considered important (in both horizontal and vertical relations), since it supports cultures of innovation and consensus.…”

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Localizing the sustainable development goals through an integrated approach in municipalities: early experiences from a Swedish forerunner

Krantz

Gustafsson

2021

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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The 2030 Agenda and its SDGs call for cross-sectoral collaboration and societal transformation. Translating these indivisible goals to the local level is an important undertaking for municipalities given their wide range of responsibilities. This paper explores SDG localization in a Swedish municipal organization, providing analyses on management practice, having an integrated approach to sustainability. Based on document studies and interviews, it reflects experiences from an early phase of SDG localization. Having an integrated approach to SDG localization was shown to be dependent on aspects such as structure, leadership and coordination, yet simultaneously flexibility, organizational learning as well as time and timing. Such an integrated approach also comes with the challenge of operationalizing the SDGs into management systems, budgets and motivating employees across organizational silos and levels. The paper concludes that the SDG framework presents an opportunity for municipalities to understand and review their organizations through a broad systems perspective on sustainability.

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“…Opportunities. Despite the importance of institutional [31] and organizational [32] factors for crossborder integrating supply chains where the said digitized logistics infrastructure should be its universal and flexible framework we are forced to concentrate our attention on technological innovations. According to our expert judgment based on reviewing relevant academic literature and official sources the following main technological pillars for sustainable development in the AZRF need to be highlighted: (1) digital technologies coupled with aerospace, wireless and ground means of telecommunications [33]; and (2) air logistics mainly supported by unmanned aerial systems (UASs)remotely piloted aircrafts (RPAs) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or "drones"also coordinated and guided with the help of aerospace communication means [34; 35].…”

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Crossborder Integration of Supply Chains: Problems and Digital Solution Concept

Skripnuk¹,

Cherenkov²,

Didenko³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Technologies in Logistics and Infrastructure (ICDTLI 2019)

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The present paper is devoted to show and formalize logistics problems emerging on boarders between different logistics environments while crossing them by supply chain. The said problems consist of increasing logistics risk and transaction costs. It is shown that the solution of these problems constitutes a significant reserve for increasing the competitive advantage. The comparative-analytical approach is used to build a double-prism model of international logistics management. Crossborder supply chain integration is formalized using vector representation in a pair of ndimensional spaces of logistic significant marketing variables. A prospective model of digital real-virtual cyberspace is presented as a hypothetical example of a fully digitalized logistics infrastructure. Didactic use of paper materials is explained.

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Organizational Factors of Environmental Sustainability Implementation: An Empirical Analysis of US Cities and Counties

Cited by 26 publications

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Positively Resilient? How Framing Local Action Affects Public Opinion

Positively Resilient? How Framing Local Action Affects Public Opinion

Localizing the sustainable development goals through an integrated approach in municipalities: early experiences from a Swedish forerunner

Crossborder Integration of Supply Chains: Problems and Digital Solution Concept

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