“Urban-Rural Integration” in the Earthquake Zone: Sichuan's Post-Disaster Reconstruction and the Expansion of the Chengdu Metropole

Abramson, Daniel Benjamin; Qi, Yu

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“…The Wenchuan earthquake (MG 7.9) devastated the province of Wenchuan, China, on 12 May 2008 and killed 69,197 people. The Chinese Government proclaimed to seize the window of opportunity for sustainable development [87]; in particular to support a more equitable peri-urban development, accounting for the needs of rural areas [88]. Yet, the government abandoned its efforts quickly, responding to pressures from the tourism industry and trying to finish reconstruction before the impending global financial crisis rippled through.…”

Section: Soldiers Grove Wi (1978)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Leveraging Post-Disaster Windows of Opportunities for Change towards Sustainability: A Framework

Brundiers

Eakin

2018

Sustainability

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Disasters are catalysts for change: they are increasingly recognized as offering opportunities to direct and navigate change towards aspired outcomes, such as sustainable development goals. However, we know little about how to leverage the opportunities created by disasters to achieve sustainability objectives. Learning from existing case studies is challenging, partly because there is no framework that integrates concepts of change from both sustainability science and disaster recovery literatures. This study develops a unified analytical framework to facilitate the documentation and analysis of case studies of sustainability transitions following disasters. Our aim is to enhance the potential for theory-building, and to draw lessons that can be used to help leverage opportunities presented by disasters in the future. We apply the framework to available empirical cases and identify specific conditions, resources, social relations and constraints that affect disaster-to-sustainability transitions. Our expectation is that this framework will serve professionals and researchers in the fields of sustainable development and disaster mitigation to enhance the effectiveness of their research and applied activities.

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Section: Soldiers Grove Wi (1978)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, rural villages continued to pursue opportunities for change towards sustainability. They tried to reassert their rural identity despite insatiable peri-urban growth and to establish enterprises in agroecology and ecotourism despite the standardizing efforts of the national tourism industry [88].…”

Section: Soldiers Grove Wi (1978)mentioning

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Leveraging Post-Disaster Windows of Opportunities for Change towards Sustainability: A Framework

Brundiers

Eakin

2018

Sustainability

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“…This phrase was repeated verbatim during separate interviews with a post-disaster relief NGO coordinator and three different local disaster survivors. 37 Abramson and Yu 2011. scale, the reconstruction project also "extended the periurban zone deep into what were quite recently remote and inaccessible valleys." 38 The fact that the central government only issued guiding regulations and policy papers concerning the post-earthquake reconstruction and disaster victim resettlement process created an environment of legal indeterminancy and noninstitutionalization.…”

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China's Vision for Developing Sichuan's Post-Earthquake Countryside: Turning Unruly Peasants into Grateful Urban Citizens

Sorace¹

2014

The China Quarterly

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In the aftermath of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, government officials, scholars and outside observers eagerly hoped that the emergency relief and reconstruction process would bring about the emergence of civil society and increase grassroots democratic participation. Contrary to this optimistic assessment, this article contends that the local state used the opportunity of the disaster as an experimental laboratory to implement an array of already existing national development plans. The urgency with which the reconstruction was to be completed and the opportunities to meet national development targets as well as access reconstruction funds were too tempting to resist. However, the ham-fisted Leninist implementation style met with local resistance and has contributed to a significant deterioration in local state-society relations. The fact that many local residents continue to question why, despite the huge resources invested by the state in the reconstruction project, they have yet to see any improvement in their economic and overall living conditions points to a deficit of local participation and a breakdown in political communication and trust. By focusing on the different political economies of disaster reconstruction, this article attempts to illuminate the regime's vision for developing the countryside, rural politics, and state-society relations in China more broadly. Unless the state is able to incorporate local needs into its development plans, it will not win the trust and support of local residents, regardless of the amount of money it invests or the benevolence of its intentions.

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“…Rural public services are improved by the funding obtained from land-use right transfer/trade to some extent (Abramson and Qi 2011 ). This model is different from the systematic model in the following manner:…”

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Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China

Wong¹,

Han²,

Zhang³

2015

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“Urban-Rural Integration” in the Earthquake Zone: Sichuan's Post-Disaster Reconstruction and the Expansion of the Chengdu Metropole

Cited by 48 publications

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Leveraging Post-Disaster Windows of Opportunities for Change towards Sustainability: A Framework

Leveraging Post-Disaster Windows of Opportunities for Change towards Sustainability: A Framework

China's Vision for Developing Sichuan's Post-Earthquake Countryside: Turning Unruly Peasants into Grateful Urban Citizens

Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China

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