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Overview

Christopher V. Hawkins is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields primarily within the social sciences and environmental science. Notably, Hawkins has contributed extensively to public administration and sustainability studies.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Institutional Mechanisms for Local Sustainability Collaboration: Assessing the Duality of Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Promoting Collaborative Processes, 2020, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  • Staff support and administrative capacity in strategic planning for local sustainability, 2021, Public Management Review
  • Assessing the influence of urban greenness and green stormwater infrastructure on hydrology from satellite remote sensing, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Viewpoints: Improving cities' implementation of sustainability objectives, 2021, Cities
  • The Road to Routinization: A Functional Collective Action Approach for Local Sustainability Planning and Performance Management, 2022, State and Local Government Review

Hawkins has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Rachel M. Krause
  • Angela Park
  • Aaron Deslatte
  • Hafez Golzarian
  • Gary Conley

Their scholarly work is often published in venues such as:

  • Cities
  • State and Local Government Review
  • Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  • Public Management Review
  • The Science of The Total Environment

The primary fields of study for Hawkins include social sciences and environmental science. The subfields of their research cover:

  • Public Administration
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Building and Construction
  • Management Science and Operations Research

Hawkins' main research topics address areas such as:

  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Disaster Management and Resilience

Best Publications

  • Food waste and the food-energy-water nexus: A review of food waste management alternatives.

    Kelly M. Kibler;Debra Reinhart;Christopher Hawkins;Amir Mohaghegh Motlagh

  • Capacity to Sustain Sustainability: A Study of U.S. Cities

    XiaoHu Wang;Christopher V. Hawkins;Nick Lebredo;Evan M. Berman

  • Sustainable Development Governance: Citizen Participation and Support Networks in Local Sustainability Initiatives

    Christopher V. Hawkins;Xiao Hu Wang

  • The Administrative Organization of Sustainability Within Local Government

    Rachel M. Krause;Richard C. Feiock;Christopher V. Hawkins

  • Disaster Preparedness and Resilience for Rural Communities

    Naim Kapucu;Christopher V. Hawkins;Fernando I. Rivera

  • COMPETITION AND COOPERATION: LOCAL GOVERNMENT JOINT VENTURES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

    Christopher V. Hawkins

  • Making meaningful commitments: Accounting for variation in cities’ investments of staff and fiscal resources to sustainability

    Christopher V Hawkins;Rachel M Krause;Richard C Feiock;Cali Curley

  • Disaster Resiliency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Naim Kapucu;Christopher V. Hawkins;Fernando I. Rivera

  • Regional cooperation and multilateral agreements in the provision of public safety

    Simon A. Andrew;Christopher V. Hawkins

  • Smart Growth Policy Choice: A Resource Dependency and Local Governance Explanation

    Christopher V. Hawkins

  • The Costs of Cooperation: What the Research Tells Us about Managing the Risks of Service Collaborations in the U.S.

    Jered B. Carr;Christopher V. Hawkins

  • Prospects for and Barriers to Local Government Joint Ventures

    Christopher V. Hawkins

  • The Impact of Administrative Structure on the Ability of City Governments to Overcome Functional Collective Action Dilemmas: A Climate and Energy Perspective

    Richard C Feiock;Rachel M Krause;Christopher V Hawkins

  • Self‐Organizing Governance of Local Economic Development: Informal Policy Networks And Regional Institutions

    Christopher V. Hawkins;Qian Hu;Richard C. Feiock

  • Drivers of Policy Instrument Selection for Environmental Management by Local Governments

    Rachel M. Krause;Christopher V. Hawkins;Angela Y. S. Park;Richard C. Feiock

  • Dealing with Missing Data: A Comparative Exploration of Approaches Using the Integrated City Sustainability Database:

    Cali Curley;Rachel M. Krause;Richard Feiock;Christopher V. Hawkins

  • The Integrated City Sustainability Database

    Richard C. Feiock;Rachel M. Krause;Christopher V. Hawkins;Cali Curley

  • An Exploration of Collaboration Risk in Joint Ventures: Perceptions of Risk by Local Economic Development Officials:

    Jered B. Carr;Christopher V. Hawkins;Drew E. Westberg

  • Balance Between Local Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: A Multi-level Governance Perspective

    Christopher V. Hawkins;Sung-Wook Kwon;Jungah Bae

  • Understanding Horizontal and Vertical Relations in the Context of Economic Development Joint Venture Agreements

    Christopher V. Hawkins;Simon A. Andrew

  • Local Government Strategies for Financing Energy Efficiency Initiatives

    XiaoHu Wang;Cheol Liu;Christopher V. Hawkins

  • Financing Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement Evidence from U.S. Cities

    XiaoHu Wang;Christopher Hawkins;Evan Berman

  • Competing interests and the political market for smart growth policy

    Christopher V. Hawkins

  • Institutional Mechanisms for Local Sustainability Collaboration: Assessing the Duality of Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Promoting Collaborative Processes

    Angela Y S Park;Rachel M Krause;Christopher V Hawkins

  • Institutions and Planning

    Christopher V. Hawkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard C. Feiock
Richard C. Feiock Florida State University
Naim Kapucu
Naim Kapucu University of Central Florida
Jered B. Carr
Jered B. Carr University of Illinois at Chicago
Ewan Ferlie
Ewan Ferlie King's College London
Debra R. Reinhart
Debra R. Reinhart University of Central Florida
James D. Wright
James D. Wright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Louise Fitzgerald
Louise Fitzgerald University of Oxford

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