Handbook on China's urban environmental governance / edited by Fangzhu Zhang (professor) and Fulong Wu (Bartlett Professor of Planning, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhang, Fangzhu, editor.

Wu, Fulong, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Handbooks of research on contemporary China

Handbooks of research on contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology)--China.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Environmental policy--China.

Environmental policy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"This timely and comprehensive Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern the environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. Outlining the relationship between the state, market, and society, this Handbook provides a systematic understanding of urban environmental governance in China. Exploring the context of changing urban environmental policies in China, leading international scholars highlight the arts of governance and governmentality through experimentation and discourse. Chapters investigate the political ecologies of eco-cities and conservation, urban waste management and governance and sustainability transitions, as well as focusing on low-carbon innovations and green buildings. With a territorial perspective grounded in Chinese cities, contributors interrogate changing and complex state-market-society dynamics in urbanisation and urban environmental governance. With a thorough and systematic analysis of new environmental initiatives, practices, and impacts, this Handbook provides scholars, students, and policy researchers of environmental studies, politics, and East Asian studies with an exemplary selection of contemporary research on China's urban environmental governance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. China's urban environmental governance / Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu and Yining Liu

Part I. Contexts, perspectives and policy changes

2. China's eco dreams and green reality / Austin Williams

3. Indigenous literary perspectives on green governance grassland management policies in China / Robin Visser

4. When an entrepreneurial government hammers out a plan for sustainable growth: A sustainable urban experiment story in China? / Yang Fu and Xiaoling Zhang

5. Resilient city planning and practices in China / Guofang Zhai and Yuwen Lu

6. The applicability of environmental governance theories to China / Xidong Cao and Li Yu

Part II. Governmentality: Experiments and discourses

7. Farmland preservation and watershed management in China: A perspective of local entrepreneurial leadership in the party-state mechanism / Shiuh-Shen Chien

8. Carbon governmentality in Chinese cities / Le-Yin Zhang

9. The politics of climate experimentalism in China / Kevin Lo

10. Climate transformation through experimental governance: The case of the low-carbon city pilot program in China / Zhilin Liu, Jie Wang and Yunzhu Chen

11. Urban sustainability experiments in China: Plural approaches for transformation / Linjun Xie, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Mengqi Shao, Yuxi Zhang and Faith Chan

12. Eco and low-carbon, smart and sponge: Potential and delusion in realising environmental benefits from sustainable city branding / Martin de Jong and Li Sun

13. Greening Chinese cities? Denaturalizing the 'good' of environmental discourses in China's urban planning system / Jiang Xu and Mengzhu Zhang

Part III. Political ecologies: Eco-cities and conservation

14. Eco-cities in China: National initiatives, local implementation and livelihood transitions / I-Chun Catherine Chang

15. Political ecologies of urban-rural conservation planning and resettlement / Jesse Rodenbiker

16. Negotiating urban sustainability on the ground: China's greenway development as land politics / Calvin King Lam Chung and Jingya Dai

Part IV. Waste management and governance

17. China's environmental governance transition: A new paradigm for waste management / Yuchen Yang, Will McDowall and Fangzhu Zhang

18. Towards an inclusive circular economy: Wise-waste city network in China / Xin Tong

19. Sustainable waste management: The influences of government capacity in the greater China region / Natalie W.M. Wong, Lin Peng and Chin-chih Wang

20. From state entrepreneurialism to state-led ecological civilisation: Changing dispositifs of governing e-waste metabolism and 'cyborg' urbanisation in China's e-waste cities / Kun Wang, Junxi Qian and Shenjing He

21. Ecological civilization, anti-incineration activism and the rolling out of 'compulsory waste-sorting' programs in Chinese cities / Shih-yang Kao

Part V. Low-carbon energy and sustainability transition

22. Green industry development and urban sustainability transitions in China's latecomer cities: The case of dezhou / Zhen Yu and David Gibbs

23. Green building in China: Governance and promotion of sustainability / Yu Zhou and Tianchen Zhou

24. Urban transition governance in China's new era of ecological civilization: Opportunities and challenges / Ping Huang, Linda Westman and Xiyan Mao

25. Integrated transit and sustainable urban development: Case studies of metro and hsr stations / Yun Song and Biyue Wang

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781803922041 (e-book)

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