 Professor
Kent
E. Portney - Quantitative Methods, Public Policy, Political Behavior
Research & Publications
Sustainable Cities
Sustainable Cities Index:
The Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously Index: Revised Rankings of U.S. Cities
Websites and Blogs: View
Prof. Portney's "Our Green Cities" Website and
Blog.
Books:
Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and
Quality of Life in American Cities. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003).
Articles and Papers:
 "Local Nonprofit Organizations and the Pursuit of Sustainability
in American Cities: A preliminary Exploration" Paper delivered at
the 2007 Meetings of the Royal Geographic Society, London, with Zach
Cuttler.
"Civic Engagement and Sustainable Cities in the U.S." in Public Administration Review, Vol. 65, No. 5, September/October 2005, pp. 579-591.
"Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: A Comparative Analysis of Twenty Four U.S. Cities," in
Local Environment, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2002, pp. 363-380.
"Local Business and Environmental Policies in Cities," in Michael E. Kraft and Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds.,
Business and Environmental Policy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming 2006, Chapter 10.
"Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: An Update from Forty-One U.S. Cities."
Available in August 2005
Presentations:
Click on below links for a PDF of the presentation slides
 Talk given to the Community Sustainability Partnership Summit, Grand Rapids, MI,
May 10, 2006.
Talk given to the Grand Valley State University/Annis Water Resources Institute, Muskegon, MI, May 9, 2006.
Talk given to the Grand Rapids Sustainable Business Forum, Grand Rapids, MI, May 8, 2006.
Talk given for the New York Academy of Sciences, New York City, April 26, 2006.
Talk given for the "Sustainable Development for the 21st Century"
lecture series at UCLA, June 1, 2005.
Keynote Address given at the BELL Conference "Building a Sustainable City Through Sustainable Enterprise," Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, July 2004.
Keynote Address given at the conference on "Milwaukee's Urban Environment: Creating the Ecological City,"
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, June 2004.
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