Environmentalism with Chinese Characteristics? Urban River Revitalization in Foshan

Urban environmentalism in context : case studies

The premise of this paper is that, despite the existence of a well-established international urban environmental agenda, cities effectively invent a different one of their own. From the political perspective of neoliberal urbanization, emphasis is placed on how environmental issues are assimilated, given meaning and translated into management practices and urban form. It is argued that environm...

revitalization of urban infra - structures in hammedan

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Identity and environmentalism: the influence of community characteristics.

This paper examines the influence of community characteristics on self-proclaimed environmentalism. We find that the composition of a community affects the likelihood that a person claims to be a strong environmentalist even after controlling for individual political leaning, socio-economic characteristics, and pro-environment behaviors. Individuals are more likely to claim to be strong environ...

The Welfare Implications of Urban Decay and Revitalization

Conventional wisdom suggests that urban revitalization can harm the poor, primarily by raising rents. It has also been argued that urban decline harms the poor by reducing job opportunities, the quality of local public services, and other neighborhood amenities. This seeming contradiction can be explained in a model incorporating moving costs and neighborhood quality change sufficiently large t...

Local Environmentalism in Peri-Urban Spaces in India: Emergent Ecological Democracy?