Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective
The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of the latest practice on urban sustainability in China, focusing on the breakdown of city-wide overall indicators to a more controllable spatial level—i.e. individual land plots and individual buildings. We argue the importance of decomposing the...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2020
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60940/ |
| _version_ | 1848799822993162240 |
|---|---|
| author | Peng, Zhen Ma, Yuanli Cheshmehzangi, Ali Deng, Wu |
| author_facet | Peng, Zhen Ma, Yuanli Cheshmehzangi, Ali Deng, Wu |
| author_sort | Peng, Zhen |
| building | Nottingham Research Data Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of the latest practice on urban sustainability in China, focusing on the breakdown of city-wide overall indicators to a more controllable spatial level—i.e. individual land plots and individual buildings. We argue the importance of decomposing the indicators to smaller scales by understanding underlying principles such as indicators and their integration in the process of urban governance, i.e. enhancing multi-level policy coordination as an important and effective approach for developing eco-cities. This can provide a common ground of argument to monitor the progress at multiple spatial levels and form a collective effort to move a city towards sustainability. The novelty of this study is to highlight the role of eco-city development at multiple spatial levels and through urban governance. The local government needs to mobilize various stakeholders involved in the urban development process by providing sustainability targets in a transparent way. A collective effort from various stakeholder groups might be formed by linking them to a set of unified but spatial level-based targets. |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T20:41:47Z |
| format | Article |
| id | nottingham-60940 |
| institution | University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus |
| institution_category | Local University |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T20:41:47Z |
| publishDate | 2020 |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | nottingham-609402020-06-22T02:18:55Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60940/ Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective Peng, Zhen Ma, Yuanli Cheshmehzangi, Ali Deng, Wu The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of the latest practice on urban sustainability in China, focusing on the breakdown of city-wide overall indicators to a more controllable spatial level—i.e. individual land plots and individual buildings. We argue the importance of decomposing the indicators to smaller scales by understanding underlying principles such as indicators and their integration in the process of urban governance, i.e. enhancing multi-level policy coordination as an important and effective approach for developing eco-cities. This can provide a common ground of argument to monitor the progress at multiple spatial levels and form a collective effort to move a city towards sustainability. The novelty of this study is to highlight the role of eco-city development at multiple spatial levels and through urban governance. The local government needs to mobilize various stakeholders involved in the urban development process by providing sustainability targets in a transparent way. A collective effort from various stakeholder groups might be formed by linking them to a set of unified but spatial level-based targets. 2020-06-13 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60940/1/Paper-Final_AC.pdf Peng, Zhen, Ma, Yuanli, Cheshmehzangi, Ali and Deng, Wu (2020) Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies . ISSN 1748-1325 sustainability; eco-city indicators; governance; multi-spatial; Ningbo China http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctaa038 doi:10.1093/ijlct/ctaa038 doi:10.1093/ijlct/ctaa038 |
| spellingShingle | sustainability; eco-city indicators; governance; multi-spatial; Ningbo China Peng, Zhen Ma, Yuanli Cheshmehzangi, Ali Deng, Wu Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective |
| title | Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective |
| title_full | Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective |
| title_fullStr | Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective |
| title_short | Promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective |
| title_sort | promoting sustainability through governance of eco-city indicators: a multi-spatial perspective |
| topic | sustainability; eco-city indicators; governance; multi-spatial; Ningbo China |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60940/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60940/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60940/ |