Assessing Urban Environmental Management Practice with a Scalar Approach. The Shanghai Case

Authors

  • Wei Tu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4468/2011.2.06tu

Keywords:

Urban Sustainability, Scalar Approach, Shanghai, China, Environmental Management

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Wei Tu

Associate Professor of Geography, Georgia Southern University

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Published

01-07-2011

How to Cite

Tu, W. (2011). Assessing Urban Environmental Management Practice with a Scalar Approach. The Shanghai Case. Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management, (2), 60–74. https://doi.org/10.4468/2011.2.06tu