While the Hong Kong government has the capacity to quickly roll out and enforce a program like LeaveHomeSafe, technological sophistication alone is not sufficient for fostering public trust and support for policy agendas. The app…
Policymakers and researchers have endeavored to conceive of new ways of thinking about sustainability, and recent experiences in Asian countries offer new lessons. This chapter examines challenges and constraints regarding sustainability policymaking, with a focus…
Arizona’s AV regulatory experience highlights broader trends in politics and governance. Assertion of place-based political identities, reflecting a growing urban-rural political divide, may complicate statewide regulatory harmonization around the country. In general, pro-innovation ideas can…
A convergence of existential crises – climate change, geopolitical instability, and socio-economic inequality, among others – has tested the policymaking capacities of governments at all scales. While definitions of and solutions to complex or ‘wicked’…
Urban water management practices are standardized through narratives informed primarily by the experiences of global cities. While these cities have resources and influence, their persistent economic and environmental challenges point to epistemic faults in technocratic…
Sluggish progress on circular economy (CE) implementation is raising some concern that this allegedly new paradigm for sustainability is failing. While initial optimism had anticipated faster progress, actors across the private sector, government, consumer markets,…
Global climate change is having increasingly localized impacts, forcing city governments to manage unprecedented threats to livelihoods and survival that can overwhelm state capacity. Continued reliance on fossil fuels for energy production hastens this crisis….
TRINITY TERRACE presents Kris Hartley, pianist The Longhorn Room 1600 Texas St, Fort Worth, TX Thursday, May 22, 2025 4:00 pm Edvard Grieg Nocturne in C major, Op. 54, No. 4 (1843–1907) Franz…
Deployments of new technologies and new combinations of pre-existing technologies present formidable challenges to legislatures responsible for developing laws that both serve and protect the public. The challenges associated with the rapidly accelerating development of…
Kris Hartley, an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability, says that the mistrust greenwashing engenders can spread well beyond just the company making the false claims. “If consumers are not convinced that…
