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I present a new framework for qualitative assessment of the current green purchasing practices of U.S. state governments. Increasing demand from citizens for green public purchasing has prompted state governments to adopt new, and improve existing, practices. Yet there has been little assessment of public green purchasing in academic research; what has been done has not provided the conceptual support necessary to assess green purchasing practices as a single component of the procurement process. My research aims to fill that gap by developing a conceptual framework with which to assess the status of green purchasing practices and by applying this framework to determine and describe the status of green purchasing in the five most populous U.S. states. The framework looks at state purchasing practices through the lenses of policy, policy implementation, and transparency.
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- The status of green purchasing in the five most populous U.S. states
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- Sharma, Lucky (Author)
- Melnick, Rob (Thesis advisor)
- Dooley, Kevin (Thesis advisor)
- Basile, George (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2012
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thesisPartial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2012
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bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 69-76)
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Field of study: Sustainability
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by Lucky Sharma