Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews Guangdong China 2010 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located on the southern coast of China, Guangdong is the country’s most populous and rich province. This review assesses Guangdong’s current approach to economic development.
Download or read book OECD Urban Policy Reviews China 2015 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review examines the major challenges associated with China's shift to a new model of urbanisation, looking at a range such issues as social and labour-market policies, land use and transport planning, urban planning, urban governance and public finance.
Download or read book OECD Green Growth Studies Green Growth in Cities written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report synthesises the findings from six case studies of urban green growth policies, four at city level (Paris, Chicago, Stockholm, Kitakyushu) and two at the national level (China, Korea). It offers a definition of urban green growth and a framework for analysing how it might play out.
Download or read book Trends in Urbanisation and Urban Policies in OECD Countries What Lessons for China written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents an overview of trends in urban policies in OECD countries with the objective to identify successes and failure that could inform national Chinese policy-makers in their preparation of an Urbanisation Strategy.
Download or read book China s Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society written by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growing and more affluent population. This book provides a ‘bottom-up view’ of China’s agriculture, showing how the many millions of Chinese peasants make a living. It presents a vivid description of the mechanisms used by rural households to defend and sustain their livelihoods, increase their agricultural production and improve the quality of their lives. The authors examine the newly emerging trajectories of entrepreneurial and capitalist farming and assess whether such alternatives will be able to meet the enormous social, economic and environmental challenges that China faces. The book also explores the paradigm that has underpinned the organisation and development of China’s agriculture from ancient times to the present day. This shows the importance of balancing in the Chinese model as compared to the one-sided imposition of continual modernization in the western model. It is argued that such balancing is at the core of the current Sannong policy, referring to the three ruralities of food sovereignty, wellbeing for peasant households and an attractive countryside.
Download or read book The Future of Mobility written by Liisa Ecola and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers developed two scenarios to envision the future of mobility in China in 2030. Economic growth, the presence of constraints on vehicle ownership and driving, and environmental conditions differentiate the scenarios. By making potential long-term mobility futures more vivid, the team sought to help decisionmakers at different levels of government and in the private sector better anticipate and prepare for change.
Download or read book Governing the City written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents a typology of metropolitan governance arrangements observed across OECD countries and offers guidance for cities seeking for more effective co-ordination, with a closer look at two sectors that are strategic importance for urban growth: transport and spatial planning.
Download or read book Climate Change 2014 Mitigation of Climate Change written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.
Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews The Gauteng City Region South Africa 2011 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of South Africa’s achievements since the fall of apartheid, this Review evaluates measures to position economic development policy and to confront economic inequality in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region.
Download or read book Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment written by Bin Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Risk and Resilience in China written by Rebecca Nadin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has been subject to floods, droughts and heat waves for millennia; these hazards are not new. What is new is how rapidly climate risks are changing for different groups of people and sectors. This is due to the unprecedented rates of socio-economic development, migration, land-use change, pollution and urbanisation, all occurring alongside increasingly more intense and frequent weather hazards and shifting seasons. China’s leadership is facing a significant challenge – from conducting and integrating biophysical and social vulnerability and risk assessments and connecting the information from these to policy priorities and time frames, to developing and implementing policies and actions at a variety of scales. It is within this challenging context that China’s policy makers, businesses and citizens must manage climate risk and build resilience. This book provides a detailed study of how China has been working to understand and respond to climatic risk, such as droughts and desertification in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia to deadly typhoons in the mega-cities of the Pearl River Delta. Using research and data from a wide range of Chinese sources and the Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) project, a research-to-policy project, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into how China is developing policies and approaches to manage the risks and opportunities presented by climate change. This book will be of interest to those studying global and Chinese climate change policy, regional food, water and climate risk, and to policy advisors.
Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews Copenhagen Denmark 2009 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses key challenges for the Copenhagen metropolitan area including boosting economic growth, scarcity of skilled workers, and barriers to research and development.
Download or read book OECD Territorial Reviews OECD Territorial Reviews Guangdong China 2010 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located on the southern coast of China, Guangdong is the country’s most populous and rich province. This review assesses Guangdong’s current approach to economic development.
Download or read book Urban Competitiveness and Innovation written by Pengfei Ni and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of today�s climate of economic globalization and the rapid development of information, this timely book explores the complex concept of competitiveness between cities. The expert contributors illustrate that innovation is a
Download or read book Southern China written by Marco R. Di Tommaso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing, this volume offers a contribution to contemporary industry studies. The rates of growth that have characterized the southern Guangdong province in the last three decades are unique, even with respect to the more general and often cited Chinese experience. But what role have governments played in these decades of growth? What are the aims and tools of industrial policies promoted in this core location of contemporary manufacturing? And what are the implications of the Guangdong experience of growth for the international debate on contemporary industry? Referencing the international debate on industrial development, specialized Chinese academic literature, official government documents, statistics and in-depth fieldwork this book offers unique view on the complex set of long-term national and local government plans and policies that have gone hand in hand with the last three decades of impressive change in this highly industrialized region. In this framework, local industrial development policy, innovation policy and migration policy are carefully analyzed as three of the main strategic interventions selected by government authorities to promote the desired gradual structural change and technological upgrading in industry. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, economics and business, development policy and industrial policy. Furthermore, the volume presents stimulating material for both policy makers and entrepreneurs.
Download or read book Innovation for Sustainable Development written by Jean-Yves Grosclaude and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation has become the new buzzword across the globe. International organisations, governments, corporates, academia and society see it as the answer to the major economic, social and environmental transformations challenging the models of the 20th century. Innovations are occurring worldwide and alternative solutions to the existing problems are emerging in all sectors: electric cars, organic farming, renewable energy and e-learning are good examples. These alternatives can be ascribed with qualities such as decentralized frugal, flexible, smart and democratic, virtues that are lacking in conventional models. They are attributed with the potential to meet the overall global challenges such as climate change and the growing inequalities between and within countries. What is the real potential of innovation? Does the rapid deployment of innovations lead towards a more sustainable and inclusive society? Can innovations and the emerging alternatives replace conventional models? Beyond technologies, what institutional innovations are required to support sustainable development? A Planet for Life 2014 aims to answer these questions and explore innovation in all its aspects, through a series of texts written by international experts. The objective of this book is to analyse experiences from across the world and the role of innovation in a variety of areas of development such as urbanization, agriculture and food, the mobility of people and freight, education and the provision of water and energy to all.
Download or read book The City after Chinese New Towns written by Michele Bonino and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 2020, some 400 Chinese New Towns will have been built, representing an unprecedented urban growth. While some of these massive developments are still empty today, others have been rather successful. The substantial effort on the part of the Chinese government is to absorb up to 250 million people, chiefly migrants from the rural parts of the country. Unlike in Europe and North America, where new towns grew in accordance to the local industries, these new Chinese cities are mostly built to the point of near completion before introducing people. The interdisciplinary publication, written by architects, planners and geographers, explores the new urbanistic phenomenon of the "Chinese New Town". Especially commissioned photographs and maps illustrate many examples of these new settlements.
