The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states
The development of 'Greenways of Paradise' in Chengdu
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5719544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fangzhu Zhang (0000-0002-8975-5324, University College London, corresponding author), Fulong Wu (0000-0003-4938-6066, University College London), Yishan Lin (0000-0001-6589-4365) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Pages | 102736 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0962-6298 • E-ISSN: 1873-5096 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102736 |
| OpenAlex | W4293403518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 51 |
This paper examines the recent green turn in China by investigating a large-scale urban greenway project. Using the perspective of the socio-ecological fix, we demonstrate that multi-scalar states strive to upgrade environmental quality. Specifically, the local state seizes the opportunity for ‘ecological civilisation’ envisioned by the central state to carry out green infrastructure development. We reveal complex motivations to incorporate ecological changes into entrepreneurial urban governance instead of encroaching greenspace for economic growth. Our state-centred analysis reveals that such an environmental strategy, the making of Chinese green urbanism, is promoted like a political mission, despite its operation by the development corporation. We argue that, while the socio-ecological fix facilitates capital accumulation, its deployment must be understood through state politics and actors
Art history · Biology · Environmental ethics · Geography · Paradise · History · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Philosophy · Ecology
Morphological atmospheres
Environmental statecraft and changing spatial politics
Linking labour regimes and socio-ecological fixes
Entrepreneurial scalecraft
Urbanisation, governance, and local state-building in China
From Policy to Practice
Understanding the spatially heterogeneous relationships between urban green amenities and residential dynamics
Throwing the urban and the rural together
Dispossession and beyond
Regional governance for greenways in China
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism
Paving the way for inclusive growth
Circuits of capital, the socio-ecological fix and power relations in a rural area. The genealogy of socio-ecological transformations of the upper Saône valley (France)
Greening China’s urban growth machine
Accumulating Positive Energy
Green development coalition
Environmental Statecraft and Changing Environmental Politics
Staging the thousand-park city
Statist forms of entrepreneurialism
Selective scaling through ideational alignment
Centralising state power, undermining local growth politics and escalating debt crisis
Bordered and crossborder perspectives on sustainable development
Beyond entrepreneurism
Tourism-induced land acquisition in protected areas
Digital fix under state entrepreneurialism
Strategic inaction and the limits of green state entrepreneurialism
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft
Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
From wilderness imaginaries to extended urbanization
The Construction of Collaborative Governance Mechanisms for Green Space in Megacities
Narratives and Pathways towards an Ecological Civilization in Contemporary China
Authoritarian Environmentalism Undermined? Local Leaders’ Time Horizons and Environmental Policy Implementation in China
Central–Local Relations
Urban Entrepreneurialism and Sustainable Development
Shanghai municipal investment corporation
By our metaphors you shall know us’
Rethinking China’s urban governance
Urban investment and development corporations, new town development and China’s local state restructuring – the case of Songjiang new town, Shanghai
Bargaining for nature
Beyond Growth Machine Politics
The Spatial Fix – Hegel, Von Thunen, and Marx
Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests
Institutional change and diversity in the transfer of land development rights in China
Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism
Planning centrality, market instruments
Seeing Red Over Green
Altruism or entrepreneurialism? The co-evolution of green place branding and policy tourism in Växjö, Sweden
Green infrastructure for China’s new urbanisation
China’s urban development in context
Rethinking the governance and planning of a new generation of greenbelts
Assembling mega-urban projects through state-guided governance innovation
A Green Leap Forward? Eco-State Restructuring and the Tianjin–Binhai Eco-City Model
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development through chengtou in China
Coordinating Urban and Rural Development in China – Learning from Chengdu
Scalar politics of urban sustainability
Banking Spatially on the Future
A socioecological fix to capitalist crisis and climate change? The possibilities and limits of renewable energy
Urban administrative restructuring, changing scale relations and local economic development in China
Urban Political Ecology1
From sustainable development to carbon control
The making and remaking of ecological space in China
Unpacking administrative rank
City-regionalism as countervailing geopolitical processes
Revisiting multi-level governance theory
Contesting Eco-Urbanism from Below
Towards the socio-ecological fix
China's Landed Urbanization
Eco' For Whom? Envisioning Eco-urbanism in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China
The environment and the entrepreneurial city
Understanding the Role of the National Exemplar in Constructing 'Strategic Glurbanization
Urban Ecological Enclosures
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology
Tightening the grip
The Local Politics of Policy Mobility
Chinese eco-cities
The Metabolism of Socioecological Fixes
Building a Harmonious Society through Greening
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |