George C Homsy
Biographic Data
| ID | 246113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George C Homsy |
| GIVEN NAMES | George C |
| FAMILY NAME | Homsy |
| SIGNATURE | HOMSY G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4470-1437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Why development projects stay or go: The role of public engagement and regional collaboration
Local governments often compete for development projects, but this can increase fiscal stress and give developers leverage to seek better deals elsewhere. We examine whether regional cooperation and specific citizen-engagement techniques are associated with retaining proposed projects rather than losing them to nearby municipalities. The study contributes to debates on growth machine politics and participatory governance by examining how cooperat…
Still muddling through: Local sustainability leaders and energy efficiency in rental units
Energy burden: Exploring the intersection of race, income, and community characteristics across the United States
Zoning Incentives: Exploring a Market-Based Land Use Planning Tool
Problem, research strategy, and findings Incentive zoning provides bonuses to developers (e.g., increased density or height) in return for public amenities (e.g., affordable housing or green buildings). We surveyed and interviewed local officials to investigate a) the adoption rate of incentive zoning across the United States, b) the bonuses offered to developers and the amenities sought by governments, c) whether municipalities conduct a cost–be…
Beyond community characteristics: A leader's gender and local government adoption of energy conservation practices and redistributive programmes
Most research examining factors associated with local government adoption of sustainability practices focuses on the impact of community characteristics. Little is known about whether adoption is also related to the characteristics of the leaders in these jurisdictions. To address this gap in the literature, this exploratory study uses data from a national survey of U.S. local governments (n = 1,672) to examine the potential correlation between a…
When Do Plans Matter: Tracking Changes in Local Government Sustainability Actions From 2010 to 2015
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Plans often sit on the shelf and fail to promote action. This raises the question of how and when plans matter. This is especially important in sustainability planning where local governments are more likely to take actions with short-term benefits that are easy to adopt. How can planners promote more sustainability actions, especially those with longer term benefits? In this study we examine factors infl…
Stories from North of Main: Neighborhood Heritage Story Mapping
Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies
Multilevel Governance: Framing the Integration of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policymaking
Scholars embrace multilevel governance as an analytical framework for complex problems, such as climate change or water pollution. However, the elements needed to comprehensively operationalize multilevel governance remain undefined in the literature. This article describes the five necessary ingredients to a multilevel framework: sanctioning and coordinating authority, provision of capacity, knowledge co-production, framing of co-benefits, and e…
Sustainability backfire: The unintended consequences of failing to engage neighborhood residents in policymaking
Urban planners, community activists, and public archeologists, among others, recognize the importance of engaging residents and their knowledge in developing policies and programs. However, sustainability is typically treated as a top-down challenge. In this article, we demonstrate that sustainability policies might break down or backfire when officials fail to directly involve residents, particularly disenfranchised residents. This conclusion em…
Sustainability and Disaster Planning: What Are the Connections
In this article, we examine the connections between resiliency and sustainability by asking: Can disaster planning lead to more sustainability actions? In a survey we conducted of 1,899 cities, towns, and counties across the United States in 2015, we found that disaster plans are three times more common than sustainability plans. Our regression models find both types of plans lead to sustainability action as does regional collaboration across the…
Unlikely pioneers: Creative climate change policymaking in smaller U.S. cities
Planning for Aging in Place: Stimulating a Market and Government Response
Using a national survey of US local governments, we explore the drivers of planning and service delivery for older adults. Our regression models find that planning for aging and elder engagement are the most influential factors explaining the level of community services for elders. Services are lower in less dense suburban and rural communities, and market-based services are lower in communities with more senior poverty. This creates two challeng…
Cities and Sustainability: Polycentric Action and Multilevel Governance
Polycentric theory, as applied to sustainability policy adoption, contends that municipalities will act independently to provide public services that protect the environment. Our multilevel regression analysis of survey responses from 1,497 municipalities across the United States challenges that notion. We find that internal drivers of municipal action are insufficient. Lower policy adoption is explained by capacity constraints. More policy makin…
Climate Change and the Co-Production of Knowledge and Policy in Rural USA Communities
Climate change requires action at multiple levels of government. We focus on the potential for climate change policy creation among small rural governments in the USA. We argue that co-production of scientific knowledge and policy is a communicative approach that encompasses local knowledge flowing up from rural governments as well as expertise and power (to coordinate and ensure compliance) flowing down from higher level authority. Using environ…
Cities and Sustainability: Polycentric Action and Multilevel Governance
Polycentric theory, as applied to sustainability policy adoption, contends that municipalities will act independently to provide public services that protect the environment. Our multilevel regression analysis of survey responses from 1,497 municipalities across the United States challenges that notion. We find that internal drivers of municipal action are insufficient. Lower policy adoption is explained by capacity constraints. More policy makin…
Planning for Aging in Place: Stimulating a Market and Government Response
Using a national survey of US local governments, we explore the drivers of planning and service delivery for older adults. Our regression models find that planning for aging and elder engagement are the most influential factors explaining the level of community services for elders. Services are lower in less dense suburban and rural communities, and market-based services are lower in communities with more senior poverty. This creates two challeng…
Unlikely pioneers: Creative climate change policymaking in smaller U.S. cities
Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies
Climate Change and the Co-Production of Knowledge and Policy in Rural USA Communities
Climate change requires action at multiple levels of government. We focus on the potential for climate change policy creation among small rural governments in the USA. We argue that co-production of scientific knowledge and policy is a communicative approach that encompasses local knowledge flowing up from rural governments as well as expertise and power (to coordinate and ensure compliance) flowing down from higher level authority. Using environ…
Sustainability and Disaster Planning: What Are the Connections
In this article, we examine the connections between resiliency and sustainability by asking: Can disaster planning lead to more sustainability actions? In a survey we conducted of 1,899 cities, towns, and counties across the United States in 2015, we found that disaster plans are three times more common than sustainability plans. Our regression models find both types of plans lead to sustainability action as does regional collaboration across the…
Energy burden: Exploring the intersection of race, income, and community characteristics across the United States
Stories from North of Main: Neighborhood Heritage Story Mapping
Sustainability backfire: The unintended consequences of failing to engage neighborhood residents in policymaking
Urban planners, community activists, and public archeologists, among others, recognize the importance of engaging residents and their knowledge in developing policies and programs. However, sustainability is typically treated as a top-down challenge. In this article, we demonstrate that sustainability policies might break down or backfire when officials fail to directly involve residents, particularly disenfranchised residents. This conclusion em…
Climate Change and the Co-Production of Knowledge and Policy in Rural USA Communities
Climate change requires action at multiple levels of government. We focus on the potential for climate change policy creation among small rural governments in the USA. We argue that co-production of scientific knowledge and policy is a communicative approach that encompasses local knowledge flowing up from rural governments as well as expertise and power (to coordinate and ensure compliance) flowing down from higher level authority. Using environ…
Cities and Sustainability: Polycentric Action and Multilevel Governance
Polycentric theory, as applied to sustainability policy adoption, contends that municipalities will act independently to provide public services that protect the environment. Our multilevel regression analysis of survey responses from 1,497 municipalities across the United States challenges that notion. We find that internal drivers of municipal action are insufficient. Lower policy adoption is explained by capacity constraints. More policy makin…
Planning for Aging in Place: Stimulating a Market and Government Response
Using a national survey of US local governments, we explore the drivers of planning and service delivery for older adults. Our regression models find that planning for aging and elder engagement are the most influential factors explaining the level of community services for elders. Services are lower in less dense suburban and rural communities, and market-based services are lower in communities with more senior poverty. This creates two challeng…
Unlikely pioneers: Creative climate change policymaking in smaller U.S. cities
Multilevel Governance: Framing the Integration of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Policymaking
Scholars embrace multilevel governance as an analytical framework for complex problems, such as climate change or water pollution. However, the elements needed to comprehensively operationalize multilevel governance remain undefined in the literature. This article describes the five necessary ingredients to a multilevel framework: sanctioning and coordinating authority, provision of capacity, knowledge co-production, framing of co-benefits, and e…
Sustainability backfire: The unintended consequences of failing to engage neighborhood residents in policymaking
Urban planners, community activists, and public archeologists, among others, recognize the importance of engaging residents and their knowledge in developing policies and programs. However, sustainability is typically treated as a top-down challenge. In this article, we demonstrate that sustainability policies might break down or backfire when officials fail to directly involve residents, particularly disenfranchised residents. This conclusion em…
Sustainability and Disaster Planning: What Are the Connections
In this article, we examine the connections between resiliency and sustainability by asking: Can disaster planning lead to more sustainability actions? In a survey we conducted of 1,899 cities, towns, and counties across the United States in 2015, we found that disaster plans are three times more common than sustainability plans. Our regression models find both types of plans lead to sustainability action as does regional collaboration across the…
When Do Plans Matter: Tracking Changes in Local Government Sustainability Actions From 2010 to 2015
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Plans often sit on the shelf and fail to promote action. This raises the question of how and when plans matter. This is especially important in sustainability planning where local governments are more likely to take actions with short-term benefits that are easy to adopt. How can planners promote more sustainability actions, especially those with longer term benefits? In this study we examine factors infl…
Stories from North of Main: Neighborhood Heritage Story Mapping
Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies
Beyond community characteristics: A leader's gender and local government adoption of energy conservation practices and redistributive programmes
Most research examining factors associated with local government adoption of sustainability practices focuses on the impact of community characteristics. Little is known about whether adoption is also related to the characteristics of the leaders in these jurisdictions. To address this gap in the literature, this exploratory study uses data from a national survey of U.S. local governments (n = 1,672) to examine the potential correlation between a…
Zoning Incentives: Exploring a Market-Based Land Use Planning Tool
Problem, research strategy, and findings Incentive zoning provides bonuses to developers (e.g., increased density or height) in return for public amenities (e.g., affordable housing or green buildings). We surveyed and interviewed local officials to investigate a) the adoption rate of incentive zoning across the United States, b) the bonuses offered to developers and the amenities sought by governments, c) whether municipalities conduct a cost–be…
Still muddling through: Local sustainability leaders and energy efficiency in rental units
Energy burden: Exploring the intersection of race, income, and community characteristics across the United States
Why development projects stay or go: The role of public engagement and regional collaboration
Local governments often compete for development projects, but this can increase fiscal stress and give developers leverage to seek better deals elsewhere. We examine whether regional cooperation and specific citizen-engagement techniques are associated with retaining proposed projects rather than losing them to nearby municipalities. The study contributes to debates on growth machine politics and participatory governance by examining how cooperat…
Economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sustainability (7 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Local government (5 works) · Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (5 works)