The travelling business of sustainable urbanism: International                     consultants as norm-setters

Hult, Anna; Rapoport, Elizabeth

doi:10.1177/0308518x16686069

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“…As a concept, an eco-city is thus deemed implicitly as challenging free market capitalism and indiscriminate use of technology (Neo and Pow, 2015). However, research reveals that contemporary manifestations of the eco-city align closely with the theory of ecological modernization (see Hult, 2013, Joss et al, 2013, Neo and Pow, 2015, Pow and Neo, 2013, Rapoport and Hult, 2017)an approach committed to both capitalism and high-technology solutions. Underlying the principles of ecological modernization is a firm belief that economic and environmental objectives are complementary (Fisher and Freudenburg, 2001, Keil and Desfor, 2003, Krueger and Gibbs, 2007, Mol et al, 2009.…”

Section: Theoretical Perspective: a Political Ecology Of Eco-developmmentioning

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Water and land: Environmental governance and Chinese eco-development

Xie

Flynn

Tan‐Mullins

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Eco-city development has emerged as a key urban form. As one of the active advocates as well as a vigorous promoter of eco-developments, China has initiated and implemented a vast number of ecoprojects in a variety of geographical locations and with diverse scales. Despite claims to integrate economic with social and environmental objectives, research on eco-city practices suggest that mainstream eco-developments promote, first and foremost, economic growth, and largely ignore issues such as environmental well-being and social equity. There is a pressing need to better understand why the environment is being so marginalized in so-called eco-developments and what the implications of that might be for environmental quality. To investigate these issues, we adopt a political ecology perspective as this enables us to focus on local insights into resource use and access to resources. By doing so we can point to ways in which resource efficiency fluctuates over time. We select Chongming Island as our case study because of its central role in eco-development in China. Indeed, the Island is of global significance and gained global repute because it was the proposed site of the world's first dedicated eco-city. We draw upon detailed fieldwork, including reports, planning documents, key person interviews and discussions with residents to analyse how local people perceive proposals for eco-development on their Island and how ongoing state management of the Island may have unintended adverse consequences for environmental quality, especially for water and land.

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Section: Theoretical Perspective: a Political Ecology Of Eco-developmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water and land: Environmental governance and Chinese eco-development

Xie

Flynn

Tan‐Mullins

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Perhaps even more markedly, the global growth of philanthropy and private investment in development has also shaped urban agendas big and small. Alongside these, international consultants, both large multinational firms and influential individuals, have taken an important role in defining urban priorities in both international frameworks and local contexts (Rapoport, 2015;Rapoport and Hult, 2017).…”

Section: Leadership In a Context Of Global Urban Governancementioning

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Leading cities: a global review of city leadership

Lauermann

2019

European Planning Studies

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“…Britain has a good international reputation for the quality of its consultancy in the field of sustainable urban planning and urban design. Many of the largest international planning consultancies have their headquarters in the UK (Rapoport and Hult, 2017). The involvement of UK consultants in urban planning and urban design provides, in turn, an opportunity for the use of other UK firms in other aspects of urban development, including construction, and can also be combined with the principles of open government and consultation.…”

Section: Green Technology Deployment and Growthmentioning

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Looking for the Green in the Green Paper: working towards an urban industrial strategy

Goodchild¹,

Eadson²

2017

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The UK government's 'Industrial Strategy' is a product of a Conservative party in power, coming to terms with a particular set of economic and political circumstances. In contrast, international bodies have commended long-term concepts of 'green growth' rather than conventional industrial development, whilst individual local authorities in the UK and elsewhere have been working towards economic regeneration policies that are both environmentally aware and also related directly to local communities. Taken together, the UK industrial strategy, the reports of international agencies and the efforts of individual local authorities raise the question as to the possible shape of a national strategy that reflects ideas of green growth and applies these ideas to processes of urban regeneration, urban development and planning. This paper gives a brief outline of such a strategy, suggesting that green growth must deal with towns and cities, both as causes of pollution, carbon emissions and resource consumption and as places where people should be able to enjoy a good quality of life.

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The travelling business of sustainable urbanism: International consultants as norm-setters

Cited by 76 publications

References 55 publications

Water and land: Environmental governance and Chinese eco-development

Water and land: Environmental governance and Chinese eco-development

Leading cities: a global review of city leadership

Looking for the Green in the Green Paper: working towards an urban industrial strategy

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