City Sustainability Policy & Implementation Publications

These publications use data collected from various 2010, 2015, and 2020 surveys on sustainability policy and implementation. Visit the Surveys page for more information on data and instruments associated with each.

Krause, Rachel M., Christopher V. Hawkins, and Angela YS Park. How has the COVID Crisis Impacted Local Governments’ Sustainability Efforts? An Examination of Initial Effects. State and Local Government Review 55.1 (2023): 27-40.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323X221124896 

Cheng, Yuan. Angela YS Park, Rachel M Krause. (Accepted). Nonprofit Sector Size and the Breadth of Local Government Climate Actions: Exploring the Moderating Role of Collaboration. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640221146967

Deslatte, Aaron, Rachel M. Krause, and Christopher V. Hawkins. (Accepted). The Road to Routinization: A Functional Collective Action Approach for Local Sustainability Planning and Performance Management. State and Local Government Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323X221111065 

Hawkins, Christopher V., and Rachel M. Krause. 2022. Decisions Institutions, Policy Arenas, and Inter-departmental Collective Action around Urban Sustainability. Urban Governance 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ugj.2022.11.005

Curley, Cali, Nicky Harrison, Corey Kewei Xu, and Shan Zhou. (2021). Collaboration mitigates barriers of utility ownership on policy adoption: evidence from the United States. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 64(1): 124-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2020.1755241 

Hawkins, Christopher V., Rachel M. Krause. (2021). Trends in Resource Capacity and Collaboration for City Sustainability: Implications for Planning Research and Practice. Planning Theory and Practice. 22 (1): 141-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2021.1866432 

Kim, Soyoung, Woo-Je Kim, and Richard Clark Feiock. (2021). An item response theory model of inter-regional collaboration for transportation planning in the United States. Land 10.9: 947. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090947 

Krause, Rachel M. and Christopher V. Hawkins. (2021). Implementing City Sustainability: Overcoming Administrative Silos to Achieve Functional Collective Action. Philadelphia, PA, Temple University Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2021.1939603 

Krause, Rachel M., Christopher V. Hawkins. (2021). Viewpoints: Improving cities’ implementation of sustainability objectives. Cities. 113, 103167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103167 

Krause, Rachel M., Christopher V. Hawkins, Angela Y.S. Park. (2021). The perfect amount of help: An examination of the relationship between capacity and collaboration in urban energy and climate initiatives. Urban Affairs Review. 57 (2):583-608. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087419884650 

Park, Angela Y.S., Rachel M. Krause, Christopher V. Hawkins. (2020). Institutional Mechanisms for Local Sustainability Collaboration: Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Assessing the Duality of Formal and Informal Mechanisms. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 31 (2): 434-450. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muaa036 

Deslatte, Aaron, and Richard C. Feiock. (2019). The collaboration riskscape: Fragmentation, problem types and preference divergence in urban sustainability." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 49(2): 352-377. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjy020 

Krause, Rachel M., Angela Y.S. Park, Christopher V. Hawkins, R.C. Feiock. (2019). The Effect of Administrative Form and Stability on Cities’ use of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories as a basis for Mitigation. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 21(6): 826-840. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1680273 

Krause, Rachel M., Christopher V. Hawkins, Angela Y.S. Park, R.C. Feiock. (2019). Drivers of Policy Instrument Selection for Environmental Management by Local Governments. Public Administration Review. 79 (4): 477-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13025 

Tang, Tian, and Alfred Tat-Kei Ho. (2019). A path-dependence perspective on the adoption of Internet of Things: Evidence from early adopters of smart and connected sensors in the United States. Government Information Quarterly 36(2): 321-332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2018.09.010 

Chiang Hsieh, Lin-Han, and Douglas Noonan. (2017). Strategic behavior in certifying green buildings: an inquiry of the non-building performance value." Environmental management 60(2): 231-242.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-017-0869-5 

Curley, Cali, Rachel M. Krause, R.C. Feiock, Christopher V. Hawkins. (2017). Dealing with Missing Data: A comparative exploration of approaches utilizing the Integrated City Sustainability Database.  Urban Affairs Review. 55 (2): 591-615. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087417726394 

Feiock, R.C., Rachel M. Krause, and Christopher V. Hawkins. (2017). The Impact of Administrative Structure on the Ability of City Governments to Overcome Functional Collective Action Dilemmas: A Climate and Energy Perspective. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 27 (4): 615–628. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mux021 

Yi, Hongtao, Rachel M. Krause, and Richard C. Feiock. (2017). Back-pedaling or continuing quietly? Assessing the impact of ICLEI membership termination on cities’ sustainability actions. Environmental Politics 26(1): 138-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2016.1244968 

Hawkins, Christopher V., Rachel M. Krause, R.C. Feiock, and Cali Curley. (2016). Making Meaningful Commitments: Accounting for Variation in Cities’ Investments of Staff and Fiscal Resources to Sustainability. Urban Studies. 53 (9): 1902–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098015580898 

Feiock, R.C., Rachel M. Krause, and Christopher J. Hawkins. Cali Curley. (2014). The Integrated City Sustainability Database. Urban Affairs Review. 50 (4): 577-589. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087413515176 

Krause, Rachel M., R.C. Feiock, and Christopher J. Hawkins. (2014). The Administrative Organization of Sustainability within Local Government. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 26(1): 113-127. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muu032