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Kent E. Portney
Research and Publications: Sustainable Cities
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:
Articles and Papers:
- "The
Group Basis of City Politics," Paper delivered at the
2011 Meetings of the American Political Science Association,
Seattle, September, 1-5. With Jeff Berry.
- "City
Administrators as Political Animals: Business Group Access
and Local Political Markets ," Paper delivered at the
2011 Meetings of the American Political science Association,
Seattle Washington, September 1-5. With Rick Feiock and
Jungah Bae.
- "Participation
and the Pursuit of Sustainability in U.S. Cities," in
Urban Affairs Review, Volume 46, No. 1, September 2010, pp.
119-139. With Jeffrey Berry.
- "Urban
Advocacy Groups, City Governance, and the Pursuit of
Sustainability in American Cities," Paper delivered at
the 2010 Meetings of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., Panel 39-3 Urban
Sustainability in a Changing Climate, September 5. With Jeff
Berry.
- "The Local Nonprofit Sector and the Pursuit of
Sustainability in American Cities: A Preliminary
Exploration," in Local Environment, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2010,
pp. 323-339. With Zachary Cuttler.
- "Urban Nonprofits, City Governance, and the Pursuit of
Sustainability in American Cities," Paper delivered at the
2009 Meetings of the American Political Science Association,
Toronto, Ontario, CA, September 3-7. With Jeffrey M. Berry,
Kelli Farrington, and Kathryn Bond.
- "Education and Smart Growth Policies in U.S. Cities," in
Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 89,
No. 5, December 2008, pp.1378-1383.
- "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 "Energy Efficiency and Sustainability"
Symposium, Tallahassee, FL, December 10, 2010.
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Presentation
- Talk given to the
Sustainability Roundtable, University of Findlay, Findlay,
Ohio, October 15, 2010.
- 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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