Details

Subject(s)

• Environmental policy—China [Browse]

Editor

• Zhang, Fangzhu [Browse]
• Wu, Fulong [Browse]

Publisher

• Edward Elgar Publishing [Browse]

Series

• Handbooks of research on contemporary China. [More in this series]
• Handbooks of Research on Contemporary China Series

Summary note

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.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1 China's urban environmental governance
• Part I Contexts, Perspectives and Policy Changes
• 2 China's eco dreams and green reality
• 3 Indigenous literary perspectives on green governance grassland management policies in China
• 4 When an entrepreneurial government hammers out a plan for sustainable growth: a sustainable urban experiment story in China?
• 5 Resilient city planning and practices in China
• 6 The applicability of environmental governance theories to China
• 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
• 8 Carbon governmentality in Chinese cities
• 9 The politics of climate experimentalism in China
• 10 Climate transformation through experimental governance: the case of the low-carbon city pilot program in China
• 11 Urban sustainability experiments in China: plural approaches for transformation
• 12 Eco and low-carbon, smart and sponge: potential and delusion in realising environmental benefits from sustainable city branding
• 13 Greening Chinese cities? Denaturalizing the 'good' of environmental discourses in China's urban planning system
• Part III Political Ecologies: Eco-Cities and Conservation
• 14 Eco-cities in China: national initiatives, local implementation and livelihood transitions
• 15 Political ecologies of urban-rural conservation planning and resettlement
• 16 Negotiating urban sustainability on the ground: China's greenway development as land politics
• Part IV Waste Management and Governance
• 17 China's environmental governance transition: a new paradigm for waste management
• 18 Towards an inclusive circular economy: the wise-waste city network in China.
• 19 Sustainable waste management: the influences of government capacity in the greater China region
• 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
• 21 Ecological civilization, anti-incineration activism and the rolling out of 'compulsory waste-sorting' programs in Chinese cities
• 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
• 23 Green building in China: governance and promotion of sustainability
• 24 Urban transition governance in China's new era of ecological civilization: opportunities and challenges
• 25 Integrated transit and sustainable urban development: case studies of metro and HSR stations
• Index.

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ISBN

1-80392-204-4

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