Urban Entrepreneurialism and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Eco-Developments

Xie, Linjun; Cheshmehzangi, Ali; Tan‐Mullins, May; Flynn, Andrew; Heath, Tim

doi:10.1080/10630732.2019.1680940

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“…Subjective perceptions can be used in conjunction with unbiased indicators [29][30][31][32][33] to obtain thorough data and understanding of the standard of urban environments. Purposefully becoming involved with intricate sustainability challenges necessitates systemic changes.…”

Section: Real-time Urban Sustainability Assessment Tools In Environmementioning

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Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Pera

2020

Sustainability

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In this systematic review, I cumulate previous research findings indicating that sustainable urbanism and networked public governance can be instrumental in carrying out extensive sustainability and resilience objectives through steering urban transformations in the direction of sustainability and resilience. Urban analytics data infrastructure, multicriteria sustainability evaluation, and sustainable performance assessment display the intricate network dynamics operational within cities, impacting urban resilience decision-making processes and leading to equitable and sustainable urban development. Throughout July 2020, I conducted a quantitative literature review of the Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases, search terms including “sustainable urban planning,” “urban sustainability assessment,” “sustainable urban governance/urban sustainability governance,” “sustainable urban development,” “sustainable/sustainability behavior,” and “environmental performance.” As I focused on research published exclusively in the past two years, only 301 various types of articles met the eligibility criteria. By removing those whose results were inconclusive, unconfirmed by replication, or too general, and because of space constraints, I selected 153, mainly empirical, sources. Future research should investigate whether the assessment of environmental sustainability performance of heterogeneous urban configurations by shared sustainability policymaking through spatial green infrastructure planning and regulations articulate sustainable urban design and governance for the development of innovative performance.

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Section: Real-time Urban Sustainability Assessment Tools In Environmementioning

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Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

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2020

Sustainability

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“…Some even selectively implement the central government's environmental regulations and policy mandates (Zhang et al, 2007;Kostka & Mol, 2013). Such fragmented authoritarian governance, which is marked by top-down policy delegation with decentralisation of planning power, has resulted in the diversification of Chinese eco-projects in terms of their development emphasis, approaches, and results (Xie et al, 2019b).…”

Section: Environmental Governance In China and The Local Statementioning

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Governing people, governing places: advancing the Protean environmental state in China

Flynn¹,

Xie

Hacking³

2020

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Since the 1990s, the unprecedented rate of economic change in China has created a series of critical policy challenges for both central and subnational states. How these policy challenges are conceived will determine how and when they can be solved. There is a growing interest, in particular, in the problematic issues of welfare, resource management and environmental pollution and how those are managed by the local state. In this study, we analyse the ongoing development of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City (SSTEC) using the lens of the 'Protean Environmental State.' This multi-faceted perspective on development is one that we have further progressed after more than a decade's research on China's multi-level environmental governance. In this paper, we concentrate on regulatory and enhancement activities. Our work draws upon fieldwork in and around the SSTEC and highlights the problematic nature of reforms to the environmental state. Ultimately, we explore the inherent and ever-shifting tensions between economic and environmental imperatives in relation to the emerging governance of people and of economic development in present-day China.

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“…By responding to the issues associated with the city-level energy management issues, the more recent debates argue about inequalities of city-level energy efficiency (Zhang & Zhou, 2020), which are affected by technological innovation . There are also essential needs for city-level transition strategies, through which development modes could be discussed more holistically (Xie et al, 2020), the role of renewable energy could be better defined (Yuan et al, 2018), dynamics of energy intensity could be distributed more strategically (Wu et al, 2018), and green development could then be promoted in various ways (Deng et al, 2020b). At the city level, these could be seen from the spatial characteristics, similar to the study of Chen et al 2018 technical efficiency that is also crucial to urban management scenarios when meeting the forthcoming energy targets and carbon emission peak of 2030 or earlier (Su & Lee, 2020).…”

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“…The relationship between innovation and growth is seen in existing scholarly research (Hall 1999;Simmie, 2001;Acs, 2002;van Oort, 2004;Wolfe & Bramwell, 2008;Duranton, 2011;Komninos, 2011;Krätke, 2011;Devins et al, 2016;Florida et al, 2016). Much of it, however, depends on the organizing capacity (Nijkamp et al, 2010), entrepreneurship in development mode (Xie et al, 2020), and regional creative capacity (Gülümser et al, 2010). Therefore, we can argue that achieving sustainable urban growth de-A.…”

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Towards Urban Energy Management: A Brief Review of China’s Recent Transition in Urban Energy Demand

Cheshmehzangi¹

2020

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It is widely accepted the lifeblood of urban economy and growth is energy. Urban transport, infrastructure, industry, and dwellings dominate energy consumption in the built environment. Nevertheless, energy efficiency in urban growth is a key factor that is widely questioned and little understood. As a result, this paper aims to question challenging matters of urban growth and energy by reviewing China's recent transition in urban energy demand. This study offers a better understanding of urban energy management and energy demands of rapidly urbanizing countries, by using China as a leading example. Since the 1980s, after the unprecedented rapid urbanization and growth in China, there are major goals to tackle the emerging matters of urban energy management and growing energy demands. These national-level challenges are imposing serious threats to how cities grow and are managed in the coming decade or so. In light of this, and the face of rapid urbanization and urban growth, this paper investigates China's current trends of urban energy management and energy demands. Finally, this paper explores current approaches to urban development in China and will offer an overview of China's requirement to tackle its current energy challenges. The findings of this study are highlighted as part of a brief review of China's recent five-year-plans and are then developed further in the light of what energy targets mean for cities and urban management.

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Urban Entrepreneurialism and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Eco-Developments

Cited by 53 publications

References 56 publications

Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Assessing Sustainability Behavior and Environmental Performance of Urban Systems: A Systematic Review

Governing people, governing places: advancing the Protean environmental state in China

Towards Urban Energy Management: A Brief Review of China’s Recent Transition in Urban Energy Demand

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