Open AccessAssessing Urban Environmental Management Practice with a Scalar Approach. The Shanghai Case
Author(s) -
Wei Tu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
symphonya
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1593-0319
pISSN - 1593-0300
DOI - 10.4468/2011.2.06tu
Subject(s) - environmental planning , sustainability , china , scale (ratio) , urban metabolism , urban planning , environmental resource management , environmental sustainability index , urban management , geography , urban density , business , environmental science , engineering , civil engineering , cartography , ecology , archaeology , biology
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