School of Sustainability Graduate Culminating Experiences
Student capstone and applied projects from ASU's School of Sustainability.
- 1 English
- 1 Slide Deck
- 1 Text
- 1 Public
- local government
- 1 city of phoenix
- 1 green purchasing
- 1 sustainable purchasing policy
- 1 sustainable purchasing research initiative
- The Solar Duck Curve and Sustainable Storage Options: A Policy Recommendation
- Beneath the Streets: New Tools for Managing Degrading Sewer Infrastructure
- Community Values Mapping for Apache Junction, AZ
- The Backyard Biodiversity Project: What is in Your Backyard?
- Implementing Social Sustainability Solutions
Sustainable purchasing has become and increasingly salient way by which local governments can decrease their resource consumptions, while also addressing broader climate action goals. Successfully implemented sustainable purchasing policies have the potential to reduce consumption and waste, expand green purchasing markets, and catalyze spillover benefits such as financial savings. Furthermore, city-level actions have become increasingly significant as the federal government ceases critical climate research and pulls out of collaborative climate deals (i.e. The Paris Climate Accord). Using data from the Sustainable Purchasing Researching Initiative at Arizona State University’s Center for Organization Research and Design, as well as qualitative policy analyses, ...
- Contributors
- Burwell, Caitlin, Darnall, Nicole, Schoon, Michael
- Created Date
- 2017-12-01