What do we know about urban sustainability? A research synthesis and nonparametric assessment
What do we know about urban sustainability? A research synthesis and nonparametric assessment
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我们对城市可持续发展了解多少？
DOI：
10.1177/0042098018779713
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
A. Deslatte
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作者：
William L. Swann;A. Deslatte
在过去的二十年里，城市可持续发展已经成为一个新兴的实践和学术事业。然而，很少有人尝试系统地评估这项研究产生了哪些累积知识。我们通过综合现有的实证结果来衡量在发展理论洞察力方面取得的进展，然后测试一个非参数预测模型来帮助克服本文献中方法论上的挑战，从而提高我们对城市可持续性的理解。根据对美国地方政府的两次全国性调查数据，我们发现，尽管组织能力似乎是最重要的预测因素，但在“城市可持续性”的旗帜下，各种各样的活动依赖于不同的因果机制，使用复合模型和可持续性措施可能会阻碍理论的进步。讨论了对未来研究的启示。
Urban sustainability has become a burgeoning practical and scholarly enterprise over the last two decades. Yet, there have been few attempts to systematically assess what cumulative knowledge this research is generating. We advance our understanding of urban sustainability by synthesising extant empirical findings to gauge progress made towards developing theoretical insight, and then testing a nonparametric predictive model that helps overcome methodological challenges in this literature. Drawing data from two national surveys of US local governments, we find that although organisational capacity appears to be the most important predictor, the broad range of activities grouped under the banner of ‘urban sustainability’ rely on distinct causal mechanisms, and use of composite models and measures of sustainability may hinder theoretical advancement. Implications for future research are discussed.