Dual policy to fight urban shrinkage: Daegu, South Korea

Joo, Yu-Min; Seo, Bo Kyong

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.08.015

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“…(2) From 2010 to 2017, the population size of most cities in Northeast China also decreased (see Tables S4 for population change data). e decline in urban populations is one of the characteristics of urban shrinkage [77][78][79]. City shrinkage involves the dual loss of population quantity and quality.…”

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Material Consumption and Carbon Emissions Associated with the Infrastructure Construction of 34 Cities in Northeast China

Wang

Fan

et al. 2020

Complexity

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Over the past three decades, China has experienced rapid economic growth along with a rapid increase in urbanization and living standards, leading to a boom in infrastructure demand. A large part of China’s newly constructed infrastructure is through urban construction; thus, cities have become a major source of material consumption and carbon emissions. Understanding the relationship between material consumption, carbon emissions, and the economic growth of cities is key to ensuring that the construction of infrastructure satisfies the needs for both economic development and dematerialization. In this study, we first accounted for material consumption and the carbon emissions of infrastructure construction of 34 cities in Northeast China and characterized spatial and temporal changes from 2010–2017. The material use and carbon emissions of infrastructure construction declined by 34.6% and 30.2% during this period. Specifically, material consumption decreased from 305.2 million tonnes to 199.6 million tonnes, and carbon emissions decreased from 77.7 million tonnes to 54.3 million tonnes. Furthermore, we used a decoupling indicator to evaluate the decoupling of material consumption or carbon emissions from GDP in these cities. We found that most cities have achieved the absolute decoupling of material consumption and carbon emissions from GDP over the study period. Finally, we proposed several policy recommendations for promoting the sustainable development of the infrastructure of cities. To ensure that cities realize low-carbon urbanization, policymakers need to promote modular buildings and low-emission construction materials. This paper also serves as a practical reference for the improvement of relevant materials and carbon emissions management strategies for other developing regions.

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Section: Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Material Consumption and Carbon Emissions Associated with the Infrastructure Construction of 34 Cities in Northeast China

Wang

Fan

et al. 2020

Complexity

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“…Over the last few decades, a central strand of research on shrinking cities has sought to document the policy responses that have been put in place to deal with the consequences of the processes of urban shrinkage (Bernt, 2009;Couch et al, 2012;Joo and Seo, 2018;Mallach et al, 2017;Rink et al, 2012;Wiechmann, 2008;Wiechmann and Bontje, 2015). As underlined by many researchers, including Audirac (2018) and Mallach (2017), the policies and strategies applied to date have aimed mainly at relaunching growth in shrinking cities.…”

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Emerging policy responses in shrinking cities: Shifting policy agendas to align with growth machine politics

Özatağan¹,

Eraydın

2020

Environ Plan A

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This paper examines growth machine politics operating in shrinking cities. Instead of de-growth politics logics emerging in shrinking cities, the paper finds, through an empirical study of Zonguldak, a shrinking mining city in Turkey, a politics that is better described as another variant of growth machine politics. Invigorated by the difficulties encountered in the implementation of state-driven growth agendas, and the subsequent reactions of local stakeholders, Zonguldak’s emerging policy agenda maintains a distance from the discourse of growth and instead adopts such themes as ecology, industrial heritage, quality of life and liveability when reframing and deploying a variety of conventional practices to make the city attractive for investment. In so doing, a broad coalition of diverse local interests are effectively brought together, and this paper suggests that these dynamics characterise a politics that is better described as adaptive response to align with growth machine politics. To explore this, the paper builds on an exploratory research design that complements secondary and documentary data analysis of the city’s economic and population trends and key policy and planning documents with an analysis of unstructured interviews with local policy makers and focus groups with local stakeholders.

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“…As members of the red party, red governors may have a strong motivation to pursue green economy initiatives by providing policy benefits in the form of government subsidies, land grants, and administrative supports, in order to foster high‐tech and green industrial cluster in the provinces they govern, (An, ; Bae, ; Joo & Seo, ). In provinces governed by red governors, the increased competition and local policies more favorable to businesses may indeed lead firms to commit to aggressive corporate environmental initiatives.…”

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Does natural environment prefer the right to the left? Governors' partisanship and corporate environmental performance

Zeng

Meng

et al. 2020

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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This study investigates the relationship between governors' partisanship and the corporate environmental performance of firms in South Korea. According to political ideology perspective, governors' partisanship closely influences the policy directions and preferences of the provincial administration. Conservative (red) governors tend to induce and encourage competition among firms by deregulating and offering policy benefits to businesses at the provincial level. In response to increased competition in provinces governed by red governors, firms commit to aggressive environmental initiatives as a strategic differentiation tool, in contrast to their behavior in provinces controlled by liberal (blue) governors. Moreover, we examine a contingent role of the provincial Congress. According to the principle of checks and balances, the positive impact of red governors on a firm's environmental performance is stronger when the provincial Congress is controlled by the liberal (blue) party, with its checks and balances on the red governors. This study extends an institutional theory by exploring institutional setting mechanisms at the provincial level.

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Dual policy to fight urban shrinkage: Daegu, South Korea

Cited by 45 publications

References 27 publications

Material Consumption and Carbon Emissions Associated with the Infrastructure Construction of 34 Cities in Northeast China

Material Consumption and Carbon Emissions Associated with the Infrastructure Construction of 34 Cities in Northeast China

Emerging policy responses in shrinking cities: Shifting policy agendas to align with growth machine politics

Does natural environment prefer the right to the left? Governors' partisanship and corporate environmental performance

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