Greening China’s Urban Governance : Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges

Preface.- Introduction: Getting to grips with China''s emerging green urban governance.- LIST OF CONTENTS.- LIST OF ABREVIATIONS.- I Green urban governance - a theoretical perspective.- Chapter 1 Wider theoretical debates on urban sustainability governance.- II Policy mobilization, planning, and implementation.- Chapter 2 Are model cities an effective instrument for urban environmental governance?.- Chapter 3 Environmental Planning and "Multi-planning Integration" in China.- Chapter 4 Environmental policies enter the educational sector: Different shades of green at district level.- Chapter 5 Urban water management in Beijing and Copenhagen: Sustainability, climate resilience, and the local water balance.- Chapter 6 Direct carbon emissions by urban residents and characteristics of high emitters: The case of Shanghai.- III The state''s new tools of green urban governance.- Chapter 7 Digital environmental monitoring in urban China.- Chapter 8 Performance reviews, public accountability and green governance in Hangzhou.- IV Society knocking on the door.- Chapter 9 Digital media, cycles of contention, and urban governance in China - Anti-PX protests as an example of the sustainability of environmental activism.- Chapter 10 The role of social protests in environmental governance in Hangzhou.- Chapter 11Green justice approach to the environmental governance dilemma: A case study of Jiufeng Environmental Energy Project in Yuhang District, Hangzhou.- Chapter 12 Civic engagement and sustainable development in urban China: Policy lobbying by social organizations.- Epilogue: New perspectives on China''s emerging green urban governance.- Contributors.- Index.