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Policy and Politics in Urban Environmental Management

   

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Running head: URBAN POLITICS ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 1Urban Politics on Environmental PolicyStudent’s NameInstitutional Affiliation

URBAN POLITICS ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 2Urban Politics on Environmental PolicyIntroductionNew York is one of the USA cities experiencing explosive growth in population everyday. Majority of the American since 2000 have migrated to live in the there. This has led toincreased population in which comes with various pros and cons to the environment. Theconsumption of gasoline and greenhouse emissions as a national average fraction metricsincreased from 7.1 tons to 24.5 tons. The city became the dirtiest in America according to theTravel and Leisure Survey on environmental quality. The pollution concentration contributed tohigher asthmatic incidences and many other diseases among the New York residents (McGuire etal, 2012). Despite environment being a major political issue in the last four decades, New Yorkhas for a long time performed below the expected environmental affairs. The organizations basedin that area raised environmental concerns to manage the high population density.As from 2000, New York focused her state efforts on environmental impacts reduction.The government needed to control the automobile dependence and gasoline consumption at thenational average rate in efforts to make the city the most energy-efficient in the United States.The national public housing and offices used the leading energy efficient equipment andaccessories in their daily activities (Wolch, 2014). Years later, New York leads in compressedgas fleet, clean air diesel hybrid and green office buildings with efficient energy including theHearst Tower. The city is connected with clean water from the Catskill Mountains watershed.The balancing of a healthy environment with the increased human needs has been the leadingglobal concern in the 21st century. The government adopted a new environmental policy that encourages the New Yorkers touse their natural resources, to use the timber, air, water, soil, and wildlife without degrading their

URBAN POLITICS ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 3value. The New York is a wide area for human settlement as compared to Greece. It wasdeveloped from the ocean coastline with 524 miles canal dug to maintain the state (Glitzensteinet al, 2014). Within a period of 100 years, the inhabitants deforested the area in their effort tobuild the state. However, today the forestation covers most of the land and still increasing. Abouthalf of the New York is a metropolitan area and the rest is rural tracts that provide space forurban needs including reservoirs, dumps, power plants and the city dwellers. This paper seeks tooutline the new environmental policy on greenhouse emissions in New York since 2000 andanalyzing the politics linked to it. The Green Building PolicyIn 2000, the government in New York introduced a policy on green building tax creditthat was so unique in the United States. The Policy removed to over 6 million dollars tax for theprivate developers who brought up environment-friendly buildings. The Design and ConstructionDepartment in that area prepared a set of rules to encourage the development of environmentallysound methods of building municipal projects (Hwang et al, 2012). All the non- residentialpublic buildings worth over 2 million dollars were demolished and built according to the LEEDstandard sets. The policy also requires the private project worth over 10 million dollars in publicfunds to apply the same regulations (Sterner et al, 2013). The Leadership in Energy andEnvironment Designs ranks the buildings in specific areas like indoor air quality, renewablematerials, and energy efficiency. With the LEED building effectiveness evaluation, al buildingcan either be ranked as silver, gold or even platinum. In 2005, there were over 700 million dollars channeled in green city constructionaccording to the policy guidelines. By 2010, the number of the green building market hadincreased to about 30 percent for all the non-residential constructions. The trend is relentlessly

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