Exploring ecological modernisation and urban–rural eco-developments in China: the case of Anji County

Marsden, Terry Keith ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0503-2039, Yu, Li ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-9862 and Flynn, Andrew Colin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5728-1569 2011. Exploring ecological modernisation and urban–rural eco-developments in China: the case of Anji County. Town Planning Review 82 (2) , pp. 195-224. 10.3828/tpr.2011.13

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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
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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