Greening China’s Urban Governance: Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges (1st ed. 2019) (ARI - Springer Asia Series #7)

Synopsis

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China – particularly city governments and social actors – tackle China’s urban environmental crisis. The volume’s case studies speak to important interdisciplinary themes such as new tools and instruments of urban green governance, climate change and urban carbon consumption, green justice, digital governance, public participation, social media, social movements, and popular protest. It lays out a unique theoretical framework for examining and discussing urban green governance. The case studies are based on extensive fieldwork that examines governance failures, challenges, and innovations from across China, including the largest cities. They show that numerous policies, experiments, and reforms have been put in place in China – mostly on a pragmatic basis, but also as a result of both strategic policy design, civil participation, and protest. The book highlights how China’s urban governments bring together diverse programmatic building blocks and instruments, from China and elsewhere. Written by experts and researchers from different disciplines at leading universities in China and the Nordic countries in Europe, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students who are interested in Chinese politics, especially urban politics, governance issues, and social movements. Both students and teachers will find the theoretical perspectives and case studies useful in their coursework.The unique green governance perspective makes this a work that is empirically and theoretically interesting for those working with urban political and environmental studies and urbanization worldwide.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789811307409

Related ISBNs:

9789811307393

Publisher:

Springer Singapore, Singapore

Date of Addition:

12/23/22

Copyrighted By:

Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Edited by:

Jørgen Delman

Edited by:

Yuan Ren

Edited by:

Outi Luova

Edited by:

Mattias Burell

Edited by:

Oscar Almén