Assessing sustainability behavior and environmental performance of urban systems: A systematic review

A Pera - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this systematic review, I cumulate previous research findings indicating that sustainable
urbanism and networked public governance can be instrumental in carrying out extensive …

Direct potable water reuse in five arid inland communities: an analysis of factors influencing public acceptance

CE Scruggs, CB Pratesi, JR Fleck - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Direct potable reuse (DPR) can improve reliability of water supplies by generating drinking
water from wastewater, but communities have consistently opposed DPR more than other …

Problem severity, collaborative stage, and partner selection in US cities

V Kalesnikaite, MI Neshkova - Journal of Public Administration …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Prior research identifies problem severity as an important antecedent of collaboration. Yet,
little is known about how problem severity shapes collaborative behavior of public …

A composite indicator to measure sustainable water use in Portugal: A compromise programming approach

MBC Freitas, A Xavier, R Fragoso, C Antunes - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Clean water is an important resource for maintaining human life, economic activities, and
ecosystems' survival. Nevertheless, its irregular distribution and occasional scarcity lead to …

Investigating the environmental and economic sustainability of crop subsector

E Jamalimoghaddam, S Yazdani, Z Farajzadeh… - Process Integration and …, 2023 - Springer
Overexploitation of water resources and the excessive use of chemical inputs have negative
effects on the sustainability of developing countries. To assess crop sustainability, the total …

Planning Strategies and Barriers to Achieving Local Drought Preparedness

T Haigh, E Wickham, S Hamlin… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Problem, research strategy, and findings Here we describe a critical link between drought
risk management and planning at the local level, the traditional lack of overlap between …

What drives water utility selection of pricing methods? Evidence from California

M Allaire, A Dinar - Water Resources Management, 2022 - Springer
Water pricing is a demand management strategy to address the looming challenge of
greater water scarcity in arid regions. Much of the literature on residential water rates …

Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability

DB Bailey, SW Kwon, N Wright - Review of Policy Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Given the myriad of policy instruments aimed at enhancing water quantity conservation
available to municipalities, what drives them to opt for a market‐based instrument (MBI) …

Zoning to enhance local sustainability: why local governments choose to use sustainability-focused land use tools

SW Kwon, DB Bailey, C Kim - Journal of Environmental Planning …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The use of land use regulations to enhance a city's sustainability portfolio is not well
understood by public administration and policy scholars. Given the positive impact higher …

The context of responsiveness: Resident preferences, water scarcity, and municipal conservation policy

D Switzer - Review of Policy Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The extent to which municipal policy is determined by the preferences of residents is a topic
of growing importance. Recent work on the subject has challenged conventional wisdom …