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Ecological citizenship and a plan for sustainable development

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In a small rural village in the mountains of Northeastern China, a transnational conglomerate is building an internationally lauded 'prototype’ for rural urbanization in China. More than a master plan for sustainable development, Huangbaiyu is representative of the new power relations and claims of ecological citizenship that acceptance of the dynamics of global warming generates. Four hundred families are to be relocated and their lives radically altered to determine if rural populations can be allowed urban privileges, without putting the 'planet in peril’. Despite its promise of equity, the rationality that has made William McDonough’s master plan for sustainable development in China internationally lauded is the same logic that ensures that existing resource distribution inequalities continue.

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  • Shannon May, 2008. "Ecological citizenship and a plan for sustainable development," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(2), pages 237-244, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:12:y:2008:i:2:p:237-244
    DOI: 10.1080/13604810802168117
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    1. Calvin King Lam Chung & Jiang Xu, 2016. "Scale as both material and discursive: A view through China’s rescaling of urban planning system for environmental governance," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(8), pages 1404-1424, December.
    2. C. P. Pow & Harvey Neo, 2013. "Seeing Red Over Green: Contesting Urban Sustainabilities in China," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(11), pages 2256-2274, August.

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