Enhancing Justice and Sustainability at the Local Level: Affordable Policies for Urban Governments

Enhancing Justice and Sustainability at the Local Level: Affordable Policies for Urban Governments By David Hess and Langdon Winner This report is based on research funded by the National Science Foundation, Social and Economic Sciences, SES Award No.... More

Enhancing Justice and Sustainability at the Local Level: Affordable Policies for Urban Governments By David Hess and Langdon Winner This report is based on research funded by the National Science Foundation, Social and Economic Sciences, SES Award No. 0425039. The report is being made available to public policy leaders in large cities across the U. S. , and both the report and thirty case studies are available at <http://www. davidjhess. org/sustlocproject. html>. The opinions and ideas discussed in this paper are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by the National Science Foundation or Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. David Hess and Langdon Winner are professors in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Some of the case studies were completed by Colin Beech, Rachel Dowty, Govind Gopakumar, and Richard Arias Hernandez during the summer of 2005; their assistance was also funded by the grant. STS Department Sage Building Less