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All are not created equal: assessing local governments’ strategic approaches towards sustainability

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  • Hyunjung Ji
  • Nicole Darnall

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While local governments often implement equivalent numbers of sustainability programmes, they likely utilize different strategies to design them. We posit that some local governments pursue more of an exploration strategy, by experimenting with a broad range of sustainability issues and policy instruments to address them, while others pursue a more exploitation strategy, by focusing on a limited range of sustainability issues and policy instruments. We assess these distinctions across 70 local governments and offer evidence that governments indeed vary in their sustainability strategies. Such variations have important implications for local governments’ ability to improve their sustainability conditions over time.

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  • Hyunjung Ji & Nicole Darnall, 2018. "All are not created equal: assessing local governments’ strategic approaches towards sustainability," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(1), pages 154-175, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:20:y:2018:i:1:p:154-175
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2017.1293147
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    1. Ji, Hyunjung & Shin, Su Hyun, 2021. "Health benefits of local government sustainability efforts: A social cognitive perspective," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 190(C).
    2. Francesco Di Maddaloni & Roya Derakhshan, 2019. "A Leap from Negative to Positive Bond. A Step towards Project Sustainability," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-19, June.
    3. Hyunjung Ji & Mark Patrick Tate, 2021. "Spillover effects of central cities on sustainability efforts in a metropolitan area," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 54(1), pages 95-121, March.
    4. Hyunjung Ji & Nicole Darnall, 2022. "How do external conditions affect the design of local governments' sustainability strategies?," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(3), pages 910-929, July.

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