Assessing Urban Environmental Management Practice with a Scalar Approach. The Shanghai Case
Shanghai’s urban environmental management in the past three decades has been focused primarily on the environmental problems at the intra-urban level. While this ‘end of pipe’ approach greatly mitigated domestic and industrial pollution, progresses were much slower in dealing with environmental impa...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Niccolò Cusano University-Rome
2011-07-01
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| Series: | Symphonya |
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| Online Access: | https://symphonya.unicusano.it/index.php/sym/article/view/9391 |
| Summary: | Shanghai’s urban environmental management in the past three decades has been focused primarily on the environmental problems at the intra-urban level. While this ‘end of pipe’ approach greatly mitigated domestic and industrial pollution, progresses were much slower in dealing with environmental impacts both at a smaller (i.e., those related to people’s daily activities) scale and at a larger (i.e., those related to inter-urban/regional or global issues) scale. Urban environmental management policies in Shanghai and China should prioritize and address urban environmental impacts at continuous geographic scales to achieve long-term ‘triple bottom line’ sustainability. |
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| ISSN: | 1593-0300 1593-0319 |