Name: Friday - Urban Sustainability I: Governmental Practices and Policies
Start: 2013-04-05T16:05:00-0700
End: 2013-04-05T17:25:00-0700

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Friday - Urban Sustainability I: Governmental Practices and Policies

Moderator: Richard Jelier (Grand Valley State University)

Planning For Transformational Change: A Comparison of London, Sydney and New York's Sustainable Development Strategies
Richard Jelier (Grand Valley State University), Renata Horvath (Grand Valley State University)
Fighting the Odds: Why Some Cities Adopt Sustainability Policies
George Homsy (Cornell University)
Really Taking Sustainability Seriously: Understanding the Environmental, Civic and Social, and Financial Sustainability of Communities
Jered Carr (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Christopher Hawkins (University of Central Florida)
Considering Social Equity in Local Government Sustainability Strategies
Tanya Watt (Arizona State University), James Svara (Arizona State University)
How City-based Sustainability Initiatives can Revitalize Older Cities: Focusing on Positive Human Strengths
Aritree Samanta (Cleveland State University), Nancy Meyer-Emerick (Cleveland State University)

Presenters

Jered Carr

University of Missouri-Kansas City

George Homsy

PhD Candidate, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

IThis fall I join the faculty of the Department of Public Administration at Binghamton University as an assistant professor to help them launch a new Sustainable Communities Masters degree program.