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Informed Cities: Making Research Work for Local Sustainability

Informed Cities: Making Research Work for Local Sustainability

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General ArchitectureLandscape ArchitectureUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0415712564
ISBN13: 9780415712569
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 16 2013
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.81 Depth: 9.71
Language: English

Informed Cities looks at the knowledge brokerage processes between cities and higher education institutions, and in particular evaluates governance mechanisms for monitoring local sustainability and the role of research within this.

The first part of the book provides an analysis of tools for governing sustainable cities and develops a typology of existing tools. It then considers approaches to monitor local sustainability on a European level, focusing on a number of key tools such as the Covenant of Mayors, Reference Framework for Sustainable Cities, and Green Capital Award. The second part of the book introduces an explorative application of two tools that the author team have used in practice to monitor local sustainability, Urban Ecosystems Europe and Local Evaluation 21, presenting and evaluating European level data collected from local governments.

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