All are not created equal: assessing local governments’ strategic approaches towards sustainability
研究了70个地方政府在可持续发展项目设计上的战略差异，发现有的政府采用探索策略（广泛尝试），有的采用利用策略（聚焦少数），这对提升可持续性有重要影响。
While local governments often implement equivalent numbers of sustainability programmes, they likely utilize different strategies to design them. We posit that some local governments pursue more of an exploration strategy, by experimenting with a broad range of sustainability issues and policy instruments to address them, while others pursue a more exploitation strategy, by focusing on a limited range of sustainability issues and policy instruments. We assess these distinctions across 70 local governments and offer evidence that governments indeed vary in their sustainability strategies. Such variations have important implications for local governments’ ability to improve their sustainability conditions over time.