Overview
- Provides a coherent focus on contemporary green and social dynamics for urban green development in China
- Tackles subjects that are challenging to research in China, and reflects the state-of-the-art studies on green governance in China
- Contributes to theorizing green urban governance in China and makes a contribution to comparative urban governance studies
Part of the book series: ARI - Springer Asia Series (ARI, volume 7)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Green Urban Governance – A Theoretical Perspective
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Policy Mobilization, Planning, and Implementation
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The State’s New Tools of Green Urban Governance
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Society Knocking on the Door
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Back Matter
Keywords
- China's urban governance
- Environmental governance
- Urban sustainable governance in China
- Environmental challenges
- New public governance
- Urban residents' direct carbon emissions
- Residential energy consumption
- Environmental policies
- China's rapid urbanization
- Model cities
- Urban water management
- Sustainability of environmental Activism
- Transportation related carbon emissions
- Environmental protection
- Environmental education
- Environmental protests/social movements
- urban politics
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Oscar Almen is a research fellow at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, where he teaches courses on development studies and qualitative methods. He obtained his PhD from Gothenburg University with a study of China’s Local People’s Congresses. His research focuses on political participation, political accountability, local governance innovations, social movement, andstate-civil society relations in China. His current research project examines regional political diversity in China based on relations between civil society and the local state in three Chinese municipalities. Dr. Yuan Ren is a Professor at Fudan University’s School of Social Development and Public Policy. He specializes in demography and urban studies, and has conducted several research projects and published on a wide range of topics that include population and development, aging studies, urbanization and migration, urban and regional development, urban affairs and welfare institution.
Dr. Outi Louva works as a university lecturer at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the vice director of the Centre and the director of the Finnish University Network for Asian Studies. Her PhD thesis dealt with ethnicity-based economic cooperation between China’s ethnic Korean areas and South Korea. Luova’s recent research has focused on China’s urban governance, especially on environmental issues.
Dr. Mattias Burell currently works as a lecturer at the Hankuk University of Foreign Languages. He has pursued research projects on China’s housing market reforms, migrant workers, and citizen trust in government. More recently, his research has focused on state-civil society relations, NGOs, and local environmental governance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Greening China’s Urban Governance
Book Subtitle: Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges
Editors: Jørgen Delman, Yuan Ren, Outi Luova, Mattias Burell, Oscar Almén
Series Title: ARI - Springer Asia Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0740-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0739-3Published: 08 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4489-3Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0740-9Published: 24 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2367-105X
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLV, 268
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Politics, Sustainable Development