(False) Dichotomies, political ideologies, and preferences for environmental management along the rural-urban interface in Calaveras County, California

Hiner, Colleen C.

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.10.001

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“…By comparison, the developed countries import these goods, which not only protect their own environment but also encroach upon the environmental and economic interests of the less developed exporting countries [16]. Hence, most resources are transferred from underdeveloped areas to developed areas, and the deteriorated environment and increased carbon emissions in underdeveloped areas, owing to resource development, are not compensated for by the latter [17], resulting in widening inequality between the rich and the poor in the world.…”

Section: Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Does Carbon Emission Reduction Efficiency Affect Regional Income Inequality? The Mediator Effect of Interregional Labor Flow

Cui

Wan

Xin

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Global income inequality is widening and carbon emissions remain high. So, reducing carbon emissions and income gap are urgent challenges. The purpose of this paper is to analysis how carbon emission efficiency influences the region income inequality. The improvement of carbon emission reduction efficiency has widened the regional income inequality with the flow of high-tech labor as an intermediary variable in China. Methods used in this article are mediating effect model and DEA method. This paper constructs a disposable income model of income and health costs, where health costs are a function of carbon reduction. If income is fixed, then the expectations of disposable income will change as the level of carbon emission reduction changes. This study finds that the disposable income expectations of high-income areas increases, while the disposable income expectations of lower-income areas decrease with the improvement of carbon emission reduction efficiency. High-income regions attract high-income labor from other regions, resulting in the widening of regional income inequality under the constraint of high cost of living. This result is verified by the data of China from 2007 to 2017. The regression model with Geordie coefficient as the dependent variable, carbon emission reduction efficiency as the core independent variable, gravitation of high-tech talent as the mediator variable, and urbanization rate, educational level, social security coverage, and highway and railway traffic mileage as control variables not only verifies the above results but also finds that high-tech talents’ flow is not the only intermediary between carbon emission reduction efficiency and regional income inequality. This paper finds that when the carbon emission reduction efficiency increases by one unit, the income inequality gap of 25 provinces increases by 0.0202 units, provinces with high carbon emission reduction efficiency increases by 0.107 units, and provinces with medium carbon emission reduction efficiency increases by 0.026 units. However, the income inequality gap of provinces with low carbon emission reduction efficiency decreases by 0.0390 units. The carbon emission reduction efficiency of the high and medium carbon emission reduction efficiency groups is proportional to the income inequality, while the low carbon emission reduction efficiency group is the opposite, when the carbon emission reduction efficiency is grouped into high efficiency group, medium efficiency group, and low efficiency group. The reason for this result is that the high carbon emission reduction efficiency of the former attracts high-income high-tech talent, while the latter's narrowing regional income inequality benefits from the reduction costs of health and the government’s ecological compensation. The effective measures to narrow the income inequality are to implement carbon emission reduction policy, industrial policy, education investment policy, and public service policy, according to the above findings.

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Section: Institutional Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Does Carbon Emission Reduction Efficiency Affect Regional Income Inequality? The Mediator Effect of Interregional Labor Flow

Cui

Wan

Xin

et al. 2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…Simultaneously, there should be minimum impact on the environment with retention of rural ambiance. Bio-diversity parameters, water adequacy, and waste utilization are important baseline measures for sustainability (Hiner, 2015;. Environmental justice presets the issues at the fringe in rurban interface (Sharma-Wallace, 2016).…”

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Decovidization Through Rurbanization: The Re-Development Option for Sustainable Energy Access

Sen¹

2020

IJEEP

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As the energy infrastructure is re-orienting to cater to de-covidization, this paper posits the rurbanization option. De-covidization is defined as actionable options to migrate from the corona virus pandemic, seen through the lens of sustainable energy access. De-covidating would imply 'build and retrofitback better' with respect to energy access. De-covidization has implications on scale, locale, alignment for energy access in the rurbanized format. The locale and reach of rurbanized energy access need to blend with living habitat. This paper is on the construct of de-covidization through grass-roots up energy access options through an innovation, rurbanization. Rurbanization refers to rural-urban aligned resource corridors that offer potential for sustainable energy access. Rurban interface is a metric that assesses the possibility of redesigning and rescaling carbon proof energy access options. There is sparse literature on the concept of rurbanization that hybridizes benefit incidence and network views on urban-rural interfaces. The focus is sustainable energy access. The paper conceptualizes rurbanization to bridge the gap in the research that emanates from the propensity of urban megapolises to create clutter, which results in degraded ecology, air pollution, health hazards, lower quality of life, gender inequity, and vulnerability to natural disasters. This has exacerbated during the current global pandemic. As de-covidating initiatives are unleashed, the energy access would need appropriate and manageable scale. Urbanization cannot be sustained without a robust rural interface.

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“…These micro case studies serve as telling examples of how rural values can be contradictory, even while rural spaces are perceived as homogeneous (Hiner 2015). Furthermore, the vignettes highlight the impacts that ideological and place-based conflict can have on policy and land use.…”

Section: Considering Rural Places In Fluxmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, discussion and resolution of this contested land use monopolized significant local government time and financial resources as well as involving regional and national banking institutions and judicial bodies. Moreover, even though the immediate issue ended with the foreclosure, the long-term implications of the case are significant in terms of local governance and perceptions of people and place in the area (Hiner 2015, Hiner 2016. In sum, the Trinitas case elucidates how economic drivers such as differential land values and preferences related to amenity development and recreation can spur significant (localized) environmental change with broad political and management implications (see also Taylor and Hurley 2016, Travis 2007, Walker and Hurley 2011.…”

Section: Journal Of Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this region, environmental conflicts such as those presented here are often framed as 'us vs. them' or as rural vs. urban, however, the actors present do not fit into neat boxes. Rather, their actions are driven more by ideology and (differing) environmental imaginaries (Hiner 2015), thus producing contested ecologies, situations wherein the very definition of the environment, its associated 'problems', and the solutions to those problems become contested (Hiner 2016). Balint et al (2011) describe a similar challenge in their discussion of "wicked" environmental problems, but I suggest that when there is a pervasive mismatch between worldviews in a particular regional context, conflict will erupt even over 'simple' environmental problems.…”

Section: Action and Actors Across The Rural-urban Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

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"Chicken wars", water fights, and other contested ecologies along the rural-urban interface in California's Sierra Nevada foothills

Hiner¹

2016

Journal of Political Ecology

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The regional political ecology approach entails attention to chains of explanation both up and down scale while acknowledging both the similarities and distinctiveness between and among local level patterns and processes. In this paper, I apply the regional political ecology approach to the study of the rural-urban interface. The rural-urban interface is the site of multi-dimensional (environmental, economic, sociocultural) change as shifts in landscapes and lifestyles iteratively influence land use/management and the cultural context of places in flux. In Calaveras County, California (USA), situated in the Sierra Nevada foothills, certain features of and activities on the landscape are being mobilized by a variety of actors, in different ways, and at cross-purposes. In two cases in particular, specific resources (water) and activities (backyard agriculture) became powerful symbolic figures in increasingly heated public policy debates revolving around the use and value of various landscapes in the area. Using mixed, though mainly ethnographic, methods, I examine these instances of environmental conflict, one revolving around a sheep ranch turned golf course and another focused on the proper place of chickens, along the rural-urban interface. After analyzing the processes of change driving these contested ecologies, I describe the challenges of negotiating what is "acceptable" in the context of place-based change and differently situated actors. I conclude by offering some comments on the difficulties of managing competing expectations of use and function in rural places and arguing the significance of pursuing a particularly regional political ecology.Keywords: rural-urban interface; (regional) political ecology; land and environmental management; contested ecologies; environmental conflict.

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(False) Dichotomies, political ideologies, and preferences for environmental management along the rural-urban interface in Calaveras County, California

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

How Does Carbon Emission Reduction Efficiency Affect Regional Income Inequality? The Mediator Effect of Interregional Labor Flow

How Does Carbon Emission Reduction Efficiency Affect Regional Income Inequality? The Mediator Effect of Interregional Labor Flow

Decovidization Through Rurbanization: The Re-Development Option for Sustainable Energy Access

"Chicken wars", water fights, and other contested ecologies along the rural-urban interface in California's Sierra Nevada foothills

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