The Center for Public and Nonprofit Management in the School of Public Administration will hold its monthly research colloquium on February 16 from 4 to 5 p.m. in HPA II - Room 247 on UCF's Orlando Campus.
Christopher Hawkins, associate professor and program director for the master's degree program in urban and regional planning, will present on collaborative research funded by a National Science Foundation grant titled “Integrated City Sustainability: Administrative Apparatus for overcoming Collective Dilemmas of Agency Fragmentation.” The title and a description of his presentation appears below.
Local Resource Commitments and Collaboration for Sustainability Initiatives: An Exploratory Study
Cities are active in designing and implementing sustainability initiatives. Extant research has provided important insight into the determinants of local initiatives, however, much of the empirical work is focused on the type and number of sustainability policies adopted at a single point in time. In addition, the study of sustainability has examined collaboration across cities rather than intra-city collaboration. This has limited our understanding of changes in sustainability efforts and the mechanisms cities use to collaborate across department units. In this study we explore the resolution of functional collective action problems and the changes over time in local priorities, administrative capacity, policy initiatives and collaboration for implementation. Our results are based on data from the Integrated City Sustainability Database (ICSD).
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