Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance

Edited by Fangzhu Zhang and Fulong Wu

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. With in-depth case studies on governing waste management, climate change, and energy transition, it will illuminate the relationship between the state, market, and society in environmental governance.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Politics and Public Policy Sustainable Development Goals; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781803922034
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 China’s urban environmental governance , pp 1-24

Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu and Yining Liu

Ch 2 China’s eco dreams and green reality , pp 26-40

Austin Williams

Ch 3 Indigenous literary perspectives on green governance grassland management policies in China , pp 41-53

Robin Visser

Ch 4 When an entrepreneurial government hammers out a plan for sustainable growth: a sustainable urban experiment story in China? , pp 54-68

Yang Fu and Xiaoling Zhang

Ch 5 Resilient city planning and practices in China , pp 69-92

Guofang Zhai and Yuwen Lu

Ch 6 The applicability of environmental governance theories to China , pp 93-113

Xidong Cao and Li Yu

Ch 7 Farmland preservation and watershed management in China: a perspective of local entrepreneurial leadership in the party-state mechanism , pp 115-127

Shiuh-Shen Chien

Ch 8 Carbon governmentality in Chinese cities , pp 128-143

Le-Yin Zhang

Ch 9 The politics of climate experimentalism in China , pp 144-155

Kevin Lo

Ch 10 Climate transformation through experimental governance: the case of the low-carbon city pilot program in China , pp 156-168

Zhilin Liu, Jie Wang and Yunzhu Chen

Ch 11 Urban sustainability experiments in China: plural approaches for transformation , pp 169-185

Linjun Xie, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Mengqi Shao, Yuxi Zhang and Faith Chan

Ch 12 Eco and low-carbon, smart and sponge: potential and delusion in realising environmental benefits from sustainable city branding , pp 186-200

Martin de Jong and Li Sun

Ch 13 Greening Chinese cities? Denaturalizing the ‘good’ of environmental discourses in China’s urban planning system , pp 201-225

Jiang Xu and Mengzhu Zhang

Ch 14 Eco-cities in China: national initiatives, local implementation and livelihood transitions , pp 227-242

I-Chun Catherine Chang

Ch 15 Political ecologies of urban–rural conservation planning and resettlement , pp 243-256

Jesse Rodenbiker

Ch 16 Negotiating urban sustainability on the ground: China’s greenway development as land politics , pp 257-270

Calvin King Lam Chung and Jingya Dai

Ch 17 China’s environmental governance transition: a new paradigm for waste management , pp 272-290

Yuchen Yang, Will McDowall and Fangzhu Zhang

Ch 18 Towards an inclusive circular economy: the wise-waste city network in China , pp 291-303

Xin Tong

Ch 19 Sustainable waste management: the influences of government capacity in the greater China region , pp 304-322

Natalie W.M. Wong, Lin Peng and Chin-chih Wang

Ch 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 , pp 323-339

Kun Wang, Junxi Qian and Shenjing He

Ch 21 Ecological civilization, anti-incineration activism and the rolling out of ‘compulsory waste-sorting’ programs in Chinese cities , pp 340-353

Shih-yang Kao

Ch 22 Green industry development and urban sustainability transitions in China’s latecomer cities: the case of Dezhou , pp 355-368

Zhen Yu and David Gibbs

Ch 23 Green building in China: governance and promotion of sustainability , pp 369-386

Yu Zhou and Tianchen Zhou

Ch 24 Urban transition governance in China’s new era of ecological civilization: opportunities and challenges , pp 387-402

Ping Huang, Yun Song, Linda Westman, Biyue Wang and Xiyan Mao

Ch 25 Integrated transit and sustainable urban development: case studies of metro and HSR stations , pp 403-416

Yun Song and Biyue Wang

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