Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance

Edited by Fangzhu Zhang, Professor and Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK

Contents:

Preface xvii
1 China’s urban environmental governance 1
Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu and Yining Liu

PART I CONTEXTS, PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY CHANGES
2 China’s eco dreams and green reality 26
Austin Williams
3 Indigenous literary perspectives on green governance grassland management policies in China 41
Robin Visser
4 When an entrepreneurial government hammers out a plan for sustainable growth: a sustainable urban experiment story in China? 54
Yang Fu and Xiaoling Zhang
5 Resilient city planning and practices in China 69
Guofang Zhai and Yuwen Lu
6 The applicability of environmental governance theories to China 93
Xidong Cao and Li Yu

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 115
Shiuh-Shen Chien
8 Carbon governmentality in Chinese cities 128
Le-Yin Zhang
9 The politics of climate experimentalism in China 144
Kevin Lo
10 Climate transformation through experimental governance: the case of the low-carbon city pilot program in China 156
Zhilin Liu, Jie Wang and Yunzhu Chen
11 Urban sustainability experiments in China: plural approaches for transformation 169
Linjun Xie, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Mengqi Shao, Yuxi Zhang and Faith Chan
12 Eco and low-carbon, smart and sponge: potential and delusion in realising environmental benefits from sustainable city branding 186
Martin de Jong and Li Sun
13 Greening Chinese cities? Denaturalizing the ‘good’ of environmental discourses in China’s urban planning system 201
Jiang Xu and Mengzhu Zhang

PART III POLITICAL ECOLOGIES: ECO-CITIES AND CONSERVATION
14 Eco-cities in China: national initiatives, local implementation and livelihood transitions 227
I-Chun Catherine Chang
15 Political ecologies of urban–rural conservation planning and resettlement 243
Jesse Rodenbiker
16 Negotiating urban sustainability on the ground: China’s greenway development as land politics 257
Calvin King Lam Chung and Jingya Dai

PART IV WASTE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE
17 China’s environmental governance transition: a new paradigm for waste management 272
Yuchen Yang, Will McDowall and Fangzhu Zhang
18 Towards an inclusive circular economy: wise-waste city network in China 291
Xin Tong
19 Sustainable waste management: the influences of government capacity in the greater China region 304
Natalie W.M. Wong, Lin Peng and Chin-chih Wang
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 323
Kun Wang, Junxi Qian and Shenjing He
21 Ecological civilization, anti-incineration activism and the rolling out of ‘compulsory waste-sorting’ programs in Chinese cities 340
Shih-yang Kao

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 355
Zhen Yu and David Gibbs
23 Green building in China: governance and promotion of sustainability 369
Yu Zhou and Tianchen Zhou
24 Urban transition governance in China’s new era of ecological civilization: opportunities and challenges 387
Ping Huang, Linda Westman and Xiyan Mao
25 Integrated transit and sustainable urban development: case studies of metro and HSR stations 403
Yun Song and Biyue Wang

Index 417