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Item Open Access How can a city enhance delivery of co-benefits from a green infrastructure program?(2019-03-17) De Luise, AlsionThis MP explores how cities can enhance delivery of co-benefits from green infrastructure investments designed and implemented to deliver specific water-related outcomes. Inter-linked methodological approaches used included review of scholarly literature with thematic analysis; case study analysis of the City of Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Water program; and semi-structured informant interviewing. The MP concludes that issues including an absence of co-benefit indicators in the M&E framework, collaboration-related transaction costs from siloed government processes, and the water-focused ambition of the legal contract with the EPA have meant that the water investment has not yet been sufficiently leveraged to maximize co-benefit outcomes. Nevertheless, building off existing good practices identified, a number of very actionable ways that cities can enhance delivery of co-benefits are presented for consideration by municipal managers.Item Open Access Policy Options to Achieve the City of Philadelphia’s Climate Change Goals(2020-04-24) Anger, Rebecca; Wilson, Gennelle; Conti, Matias; Rollins, LibbaThe purpose of this master’s project is to carry out a thorough policy analysis that will enable the City of Philadelphia to achieve its 2030 and 2050 carbon emission reduction and renewable energy goals. Philadelphia has a plan in place to reach these goals and its current policies are a good first step. However, there is room for their plans and policies to be augmented with strategies beyond what they currently have. This project analyses the potential of various transportation policies and presents the results of cost benefit analysis (CBAs) conducted on three carbon reduction strategies that the city expressed interest in but lacked the resources to explore on their own. A synthesis of actions taken by cities world-wide has also been added to serve as a menu of options for further exploration. With this project we aim to assist our client, the Clean Air Council, by providing insight on additional, cost-effective strategies to advocate for further action in the city, as well as to provide Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability with valuable information and resources to continue their work towards climate change mitigation.Item Open Access The Emerging Importance of Stormwater Management with a Focus on the City of Philadelphia(2012-04-18) Erickson-Ludwig, AlistarOver 80 percent of the population of the United States lives in cities. The large population coupled with a dense built environment means that cities are generally at a higher risk for the negative consequences of polluted water. Philadelphia is a dense urban city with two major waterways flowing through it. As a city with a large population and large percentage of developed land, flood control and water quality are two major issues facing the City. In 2006, the Philadelphia Water Department passed a regulation requiring new development and redevelopment projects to manage stormwater runoff. An assessment was completed to understand why particular stormwater management practices were chosen in various private development projects throughout Philadelphia and learn the positives and negatives of managing them.Item Open Access The Philadelphia 2030 District: Measuring Transportation Emissions Now and in the Future A Quantitative and Qualitative Review(2018-04-20) Reinheimer, SarahThis MP primarily focuses on the challenges surrounding measurement of Philadelphia’s 2030 District transportation emissions. While in the past, policy makers have primarily focused on electric power generation and industry to limit the growth of GHG emissions, transportation emissions today account for 27 percent of U.S. GHG emissions (EPA, 2015). Transportation is also now the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions, and there are 1/3 more vehicles on the road than there were in 1990 (Sorrel, 2016). Transportation infrastructure lasts decades, and the decisions surrounding urban development comes not just from national, but local and city governments. This is where cities, in partnership with businesses and other stakeholders, can play a substantial role in limiting the growth of these emissions, both now and in the future. This project has three focuses: 1. A Quantitative Review. I developed a transportation GHG emissions baseline for the Philadelphia 2030 District. 2. Qualitative: I designed a survey to track transportation emissions moving forward for the District. 3. Comparative: I researched the five Districts already measuring their transportation GHG emissions.