Low Carbon City in China: Practice and Governance Model Innovation
Global climate change resulted from greenhouse gas emission has drawn wide attention of international community. In order to tackle climate problem and achieve low carbon development, governments of many international cities and organizations are actively promoting the construction of low carbon city. Low carbon city development has aroused a high degree of enthusiasm and has received wide policy support from high levels in China, whilst it has blindness and disorder. This paper summarizes the national policy framework of low carbon city and practices of 20 representative cities in China. Then the author analyzes the current inadequacy in Chinas low carbon city development. After that the paper briefly reviews international experiences. The paper puts particular emphasis on the governance model and institutional framework innovation for low carbon city development, and concludes that on the governance subjects structure dimension, it needs a collaboration among government, businesses, financial organization s, citizens and NGOs;on the governance policy instruments dimension, policy design should be changed from relying on administrative means to relying on market mechanisms.
Low carbon city Practice in China Governance model innovation Governance subjects structure Governance policy instruments
WANGLuo-zhong LI Fan
School of Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China, 100875
国际会议
2010 International Conference on Public Administration(6th)(2010 第六届公共管理国际会议)
澳大利亚堪培拉
英文
19-27
2010-10-22（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）