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
- Rethinking local food initiatives: A qualitative exploration of sustainability values, collective action and political perspectives
- Moving Sustainability Forward: A Game-based Approach For Building Confidence In Municipal Administration
- How Do Planners Engage with Regenerative Design and Development Principles in Urban River Restoration Projects? Insights from the Kinnickinnic River (WI) and the Los Angeles River (CA)
- Doughnut Hedonism: Can we use the double dividend of alternative hedonism to get us into the ‘safe and just space’ of the doughnut model?
- Of “Vampires”, “Sweet Promises”, and Contested Developments: Frame-Analysis of Development Projects in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia
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