Greening China’s Urban Governance : Tackling Environmental and Sustainability...

by Yuan Ren

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Greening China’s Urban Governance : Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges, Paperback by Delman, Jørgen (EDT); Ren, Yuan (EDT); Luova, Outi (EDT); Burell, Mattias (EDT); Almén, Oscar (EDT), ISBN 9811344892, ISBN-13 9789811344893, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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, 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. Th 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 st

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2018
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9789811344893
• Condition: Fine

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