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Multilevel governance framework for low-carbon development in urban China: A case study of Hongqiao Business District, Shanghai
Abstract In the context of proliferating urban climate initiatives in China, a more fundamental understanding of governance innovation and implementation is essential. Existing literature tends to overlook the critical examination into governance and give sufficient consideration to the Chinese context. This article develops a conceptual framework on low-carbon governance and implementation in urban China, drawing upon a Multi-Level Governance (MLG) perspective, a policy-dimensional framework, and a mobilities approach. A case study of Hongqiao Business District, Shanghai, is used to illustrate the framework's application and to establish an overall low-carbon MLG picture with new insights from empirical evidence. The case study follows a mixed use of data collection methods, consisting of semi-structured interviews, documentary analysis and sites visits and observations. As the case study demonstrates, low-carbon development in Hongqiao has greatly benefited from the early stages of legalisation and multi-level governance innovations (such as regulatory governance, enabling governance, and governance through provision). The perspective of authority relations provides attention to hierarchical levels of government but also examine scales across territorial and administrative boundaries more flexibly. Low-carbon strategy development and implementation are found to involve both traditional policy-making channels and informal governance spaces, with actors playing different roles. Beyond academia, the research findings are helpful to accelerating the sharing and up-scaling of knowledge based around an in-depth examination of a high-profile ‘low carbon’ district in China.
Highlights Climate governance in China is best understood through multi-level governance. Multi-level governance innovations across territorial and administrative boundaries have also been critical to mobilizing ideas, knowledge, and practices in Hongqiao. Governance through regulation has been widely and innovatively practiced. Different governance modes function differently in different sectors and at different development stages. Actors have interacted with each other through traditional policy-making channels and informal political spaces.
Multilevel governance framework for low-carbon development in urban China: A case study of Hongqiao Business District, Shanghai
Abstract In the context of proliferating urban climate initiatives in China, a more fundamental understanding of governance innovation and implementation is essential. Existing literature tends to overlook the critical examination into governance and give sufficient consideration to the Chinese context. This article develops a conceptual framework on low-carbon governance and implementation in urban China, drawing upon a Multi-Level Governance (MLG) perspective, a policy-dimensional framework, and a mobilities approach. A case study of Hongqiao Business District, Shanghai, is used to illustrate the framework's application and to establish an overall low-carbon MLG picture with new insights from empirical evidence. The case study follows a mixed use of data collection methods, consisting of semi-structured interviews, documentary analysis and sites visits and observations. As the case study demonstrates, low-carbon development in Hongqiao has greatly benefited from the early stages of legalisation and multi-level governance innovations (such as regulatory governance, enabling governance, and governance through provision). The perspective of authority relations provides attention to hierarchical levels of government but also examine scales across territorial and administrative boundaries more flexibly. Low-carbon strategy development and implementation are found to involve both traditional policy-making channels and informal governance spaces, with actors playing different roles. Beyond academia, the research findings are helpful to accelerating the sharing and up-scaling of knowledge based around an in-depth examination of a high-profile ‘low carbon’ district in China.
Highlights Climate governance in China is best understood through multi-level governance. Multi-level governance innovations across territorial and administrative boundaries have also been critical to mobilizing ideas, knowledge, and practices in Hongqiao. Governance through regulation has been widely and innovatively practiced. Different governance modes function differently in different sectors and at different development stages. Actors have interacted with each other through traditional policy-making channels and informal political spaces.
Multilevel governance framework for low-carbon development in urban China: A case study of Hongqiao Business District, Shanghai
Sun, Bing (author) / Baker, Mark (author)
Cities ; 119
2021-07-30
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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