In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

Purpose This study investigates the transparency of budgets by examining its relationship
with financial sustainability, which is a central area of research in the public-sector context …

Assessing the impact of the nonprofit sector on society has been one of the most
fundamental yet challenging questions in public and nonprofit management scholarship …

In this systematic review, I cumulate previous research findings indicating that sustainable
urbanism and networked public governance can be instrumental in carrying out extensive …

Societal responses to crises require coordination at multiple levels of organization.
Exploring early efforts to contain COVID-19 in the US, we argue that local governments can …

Cities face substantial risks of economic and physical losses from repeated exposure to
climate hazards exacerbated by climate change. Drawing from the climate action and policy …

Existing studies often use the association between sector sizes to test the supplementary
and complementary models of government–nonprofit relations, assuming that one mode of …

In the absence of national policy to address climate change in the USA, many scholars
shifted focus to examine state and local level actions. Mayors, city managers, and city …

To realise their potential to lead in sustainability development, cities require both symbolic
resources such as social capital and legitimacy and material resources such as financial …

Why do some cities adopt practices to resolve social and environmental problems more
rapidly and extensively than others? Although diffusion studies emphasize administrative …