Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Kansas State University 802 Mid Campus Dr. South101D Calvin Hall Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA.
Associate Professor School of Public Affairs and Administration University of Kansas 4060 Wescoe Hall1445 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA.
J Environ Manage. 2021 Feb 1;279:111764. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111764. Epub 2020 Dec 23.
Municipalities around the globe are increasingly adopting and integrating sustainability goals into their service functions. As with many public programs, local sustainability initiatives benefit from regular and systematic assessment aimed at determining the extent to which efforts are achieving their performance goals. However, there currently is little understanding of how local governments are collecting and tracking data on their sustainability-related performance and to what extent they integrate its lessons into their sustainability management practice. This study helps fill this gap by investigating U.S. local governments' sustainability performance management systems and provides empirical evidence on some of their key institutional and system characteristics. Our findings indicate that a significant number of U.S. local governments are engaged in sustainability performance assessment, but they vary in their ability to establish appropriate indicators as well as supporting mechanisms, indicating significant room for improvement in local sustainability performance management.
全球各地的城市越来越多地将可持续性目标纳入其服务职能中。与许多公共计划一样，地方可持续发展计划得益于定期和系统的评估，旨在确定努力在多大程度上实现其绩效目标。然而，目前对于地方政府如何收集和跟踪其与可持续性相关的绩效数据，以及在多大程度上将其经验教训纳入其可持续性管理实践中，了解甚少。本研究通过调查美国地方政府的可持续性绩效管理系统，填补了这一空白，并提供了一些关于其关键制度和系统特征的经验证据。我们的研究结果表明，大量的美国地方政府都参与了可持续性绩效评估，但它们在确定适当指标以及支持机制方面的能力存在差异，这表明地方可持续性绩效管理还有很大的改进空间。
