Organizational Factors of Environmental Sustainability Implementation: An Empirical Analysis of US Cities and Counties
Organizational Factors of Environmental Sustainability Implementation: An Empirical Analysis of US Cities and Counties
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环境可持续性实施的组织因素：美国城市和县的实证分析
DOI：
10.1080/1523908x.2016.1138403
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
J. Crawford
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文献类型：
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作者：
L. Laurian;J. Crawford
环境可持续发展目标越来越多地嵌入到地方规划中，但实施起来却很困难。通过对146个美国中小型城市和县的217名规划人员进行随机抽样调查，我们确定了支持和阻碍环境可持续实践实施的组织因素。分析是基于一个概念框架，其中包括组织能力、文化、结构、参与性决策、可持续性框架和背景因素。我们发现，环境可持续性的实施是滞后的（虽然城市一般领先于县），结果评估是罕见的，排除适应性学习。执行工作的主要障碍是可持续性在政治和管理议程上的地位很低。正如预期的那样，当地公众的支持、支持创新的组织文化以及环境可持续性的优先次序和框架都有助于实施。令人惊讶的是，创新并没有在邻近地区传播，地方能力和公众参与与实施无关，支持实施的是等级制度而不是一体化的体制结构。
Abstract Environmental sustainability goals are increasingly embedded in local planning, but implementation proves difficult. Using a survey of 217 planners working in a random sample of 146 small to mid-sized American cities and counties, we identify the organizational factors that support and hinder the implementation of environmentally sustainable practices. The analysis is based on a conceptual framework that encompasses organizational capacity, culture, structure, participatory decision-making, the framing of sustainability and contextual factors. We find that environmental sustainability implementation is lagging (although cities are generally ahead compared to counties) and that outcome evaluation is rare, precluding adaptive learning. The major barrier to implementation is that sustainability is low on political and managerial agendas. As expected, local public support, innovation-supportive organizational culture and the prioritization and framing of environmental sustainability support implementation. Surprisingly, innovation diffusion does not occur across neighbouring localities, local capacity and public participation are irrelevant for implementation and hierarchical rather than integrated institutional structures support implementation.
提高环境评估的有效性：理解组织学习的内部背景条件
影响因子：
3.9
作者：
Gazzola P
通讯作者：
Gazzola P