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DOI	10.1177/00420980241239788
	Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability
	Gonzalez, Ana; Brandtner, Christof
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0042-0980
EISSN	1360-063X
英文摘要	To realise their potential to lead in sustainability development, cities require both symbolic resources such as social capital and legitimacy and material resources such as financial and technical support. Recent research in urban studies has shown that cities overcome institutional barriers to urban sustainability by drawing on support from their wider environment. However, we argue that resource needs vary depending on whether cities spotlight or sideline sustainability. Drawing on in-depth interviews with sustainability managers in cities with variable seriousness about sustainability, and representatives of city networks and support organisations, we show that cities express different symbolic and material resource needs as well as means to acquire them. When cities express pragmatic needs, they seek to demonstrate political feasibility and look to peer cities for legitimation; when cities express progressive needs, they aim to push the boundaries of technical possibility and broadcast their achievements to the world. Since cities require dissimilar external support, skewed attention towards 'leading' cities in extant research limits our understanding of how cities can overcome institutional barriers to climate action, especially when these barriers are high. Our findings offer contributions to the literature on city strategies for climate change on the institutional drivers of urban sustainability.
英文关键词	cities and climate change; institutional barriers; organisational legitimacy; sustainability managers; symbolic and material resources
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Urban Studies
WOS类目	Environmental Studies ; Urban Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001207421400001
来源期刊	URBAN STUDIES
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/309171
作者单位	University of Chicago; emlyon business school; Stanford University; University of Chicago
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gonzalez, Ana,Brandtner, Christof. Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability[J],2024.
APA	Gonzalez, Ana,&Brandtner, Christof.(2024).Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability.URBAN STUDIES.
MLA	Gonzalez, Ana,et al."Green in their own way: Pragmatic and progressive means for cities to overcome institutional barriers to sustainability".URBAN STUDIES (2024).