Economic Transition at the Local Level: Diverse Forms of Town Development in China[J] . LaurenceJ. C. Ma,Gonghao Cui.Post-Soviet Geography and Economics . 2002 (2)Ma LJ and Cui G (2002) Economic transition at the local level: Diverse forms of town development in China. Post-Soviet ...
However, these urban environments are not perfectly safe: flooding, earthquakes, and engineered slopes contribute risks to people living in the mountainous towns in China, and, urban sprawl and asset concentration may increase hazard, exposure and vulnerability (Lan et al., 2021; Raschky, 2008; ...
Even after the abrupt US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in June 2017, California pursued its effort through different independent partnerships with multiple towns, regions and countries (UNFCCC 2015a; Lesnes 2017). Validations of the empirical fit of the Paris Conference with real-world ...
aA closure of a single project has a direct impact on an associated rural town, which leads to increased pressure on other rural towns in the system. Overexpansion of a rural town requires a stabilising regulatory response at the rural and urban towns levels.bMultiple mine closures drive out-...
work, and organisational positioning of the ENGO when undertaking to build a popular and authentic coalition. Our questions were as follows: What tensions do metropolitan campaigners work on when communicating the idea of a ‘just transition’ and building alliances in regional industrial towns?
level to encompass broader societal and collective dimensions of disconnection, such as institutional, sociocultural, and power-related factors that contribute to disconnection [26]. In recent years, there has been a rising appreciation for the importance and validity of indigenous and local knowledge ...
These results offer an interesting point of comparison with other studies of adult residents’ “sense-in-place” in terms of distance, e.g., Cantrill and Senecah (2001), who found marked differences between the area that respondents’ called home in two separate US towns—less than 2 ...
“county-serviced city” (CSC, xian guan shi), to qualified small towns within the existing administrative hierarchy. The CSC will have the same rights as all other Chinese cities in dealing with their economic development, but it will remain in its current position as a township level unit ...
(Mark Castellnou et al.2009; P. Verkerk et al.2017). It straddles the counties of Selva, Vallès Oriental, and Maresme. Some semi-rural towns have implemented homeowner payments for firebreak management around “urbanizations”, or residential areas typical of Mediterranean wildland-urban interface...
Rural and small towns can be defined as having an urban core of less than 10,000 people and being ‘outside the commuting zone of centres with population of 10,000 or more’ [1]. These communities are often seen as possessing a trusting network of strong interpersonal relationships [2],[...