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China’s Shifting Demographic Geography
Insights from the 2020 CensusDocumentos de TrabalhoFevereiro 2023Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei ZhangThis monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...
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Global Urbanization
Learning From China's Explosive Urban GrowthRevista Land LinesAgosto 2019By Katharine Wroth, August 19, 2019Over the past four decades, more than 500 million people have moved from rural China to the nation’s cities, leading to rapid and often uncoordinated urbanization. A recent conference in...
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China’s Environmental Policy and Urban Development
LivrosFevereiro 2013Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man“It is well known that rapid urbanization and industrialization in China have had serious consequences for China's environment. Far less recognized are the wide ranging efforts undertaken...
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The Development of Copycat Towns in China
An Initial Analysis of Their Economic, Social, and Environmental ImplicationsDocumentos de TrabalhoOutubro 2017Daniel Sui, Bo Zhao, and Hui KongThe great urban leap forward in China during the past four decades has dramatically transformed the Chinese landscape across the country as well as Chinese society in many profound ways. By situating...
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Sponge Cities and Panda Habitat
The Nature Conservancy's Foray into ChinaRevista Land LinesOutubro 2017By James N. Levitt and Emily MyronThe Nature Conservancy China is partnering with the PKU-Lincoln Center on two major land-based green initiatives: Shenzhen's sponge city project will mitigate floods by absorbing rainfall with...
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Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability in China
Documentos de TrabalhoSetembro 2016Richard C. FeiockOver the past decade, Chinese local governments have adopted numerous innovations to address pressing social, economic, and environmental concerns. Realizing the limitations of unilateral actions,...