Jean Mercier

Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

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This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical data from these three cities to analyze how specific governmental and policy instruments (planning, consultation and market mechanisms for example) were implemented in each case. Through concepts coming from policy studies and sociology, for example, such as path dependency, institutional culture and transaction costs, the three cities are also looked at in a broader perspective in order to bet… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tremblay-Racicot, Fanny / Carrier, Mario / Duarte, Fábio

ISBN: 978-3-319-99091-0
EAN: 9783319990910
Produktnummer: 29041215
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 129 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'534 KB
Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
Abbildungen: 1 schwarz-weiße und 2 farbige Abbildungen, 1 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Jean Mercier is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Laval University, Canada. He was Vergniaud Chair of Territorial Governance at the Université de Bordeaux, France, in 2009.Fanny Tremblay-Racicot is Associate Professor of local and regional administration at the National School of Public Administration (ENAP), Québec, Canada.Mario Carrier is a Professor at the Graduate School of Urban and Regional Planning at Laval University, Canada. He is also a member of the Centre for Research in Planning and Development (CRAD).Fábio Duarte is Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab, USA, Professor at the Pontfícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil, and Consultant for the World Bank. His books include Unplugging the City, co-authored with Rodrigo Firmino.