Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City : A Case Study of an Emerging Eco-City in China
China is experiencing rapid and large scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban environmental challenges are unprecedented. The Chinese Government has fully recognized these challenges and is aiming to promote more sustainable ur...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/776301468029076278/Sino-Singapore-Tianjin-Eco-City-SSTEC-a-case-study-of-an-emerging-eco-city-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28143 |
| Summary: | China is experiencing rapid and large
scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban
environmental challenges are unprecedented. The Chinese
Government has fully recognized these challenges and is
aiming to promote more sustainable urbanization in line with
the objectives of the eleventh five year plan, which calls
for 'building a resource-conserving and environmentally
friendly society'. Various initiatives are being
pursued to support this objective, both at the national and
local levels. At the local level, cities have responded by
developing 'eco-cities', which aim to promote a
more sustainable urbanization model. More than one hundred
eco-city initiatives have been launched in recent years. One
such initiative is the Sino-Singapore Tianjin eco-city. The
purpose of this report is to review the Sino-Singapore
Tianjin Eco-City (SSTEC) project from a comprehensive
perspective with a view to achieving the following principal
objectives: (i) create a detailed knowledge base on the
project; (ii) provide policy advice on key issues,
especially those related to the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) project; (iii) estimate SSTEC's Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) emission reduction potential; and (iv) contextualize
the project among the broader ecological urban development
initiatives in China. Broadening the World Bank's
engagement beyond the GEF was assessed as important given
the project's complexity, and its potential to shed
light on China's sustainable urban development challenges |
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