2015 Sustainability Implementation Survey

The 2015 Sustainability Implementation Survey focused on the organization and implementation of local sustainability programs. This survey was administered in 2015 to all US cities with populations over 20,000. Survey instrument, dataset information, and reports of summary findings are available below.  Please email the researchers if you interested on obtaining or using the data.

Articles

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

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 

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 

Krause, Rachel M., Christopher V. Hawkins, and Angela YS Park. (2022). How has the COVID crisis impacted local governments' sustainability efforts? An examination of initial effects. State and Local Government Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/0160323X221124896 

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., 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