Marsden, Terry Keith ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Abstract
The article explores the concept of the eco-economy in relation to planning and innovations taking place in the Anji district of China, Zhejiang Province. Through exploring a grounded process of ecological modernisation involving plan-led development processes, we argue that a new model of the localised eco-economy is developing based upon a cluster of complementary production and consumption spheres: settlement infrastructure developments, renewable energy and recycling, bamboo clusters, food clusters and ecological tourism (Non Jia Le). This represents to new form of more endogenous rural and urban eco-development in China which could be replicated as part of progressing the 'New Countryside Movement' more generally. The analysis suggests that concepts such as eco-economy, and their associated and unfolding dynamic rural and urban 'webs', are applicable in the case of Chinese environmental and economic development more generally; and that such processes could proliferate through careful and innovative plan-led processes which foster the re-appraisal of the endowments of regional and local resources.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Sustainable Places Research Institute (PLACES) Geography and Planning (GEOPL) |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
ISSN: | 0041-0020 |
Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2022 14:00 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/16162 |
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