A Comparative Framework for Analyzing Urban Environmental Policy

Worldwide, for the first time the majority of people live in cities. This population concentration presents environmental policy challenges. To improve urban environmental policy making, researchers, policy makers and administrators must consider the many, interrelated issues of urban environmental policy. This paper presents a new framework designed to help analysts and others consider many facets of urban environmental policy. The framework is unusual in focusing attention on the policy system within a structure that combines emphasis on the natural and built systems with the social and governmental systems. It is designed to be general enough to allow comparative and cross-national use.