Building Sustainable Cities in China: Sustainable Development and Uneven Urban Transformation in the Pearl River Delta and Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) Urban Regions

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Project Title
Building Sustainable Cities in China: Sustainable Development and Uneven Urban Transformation in the Pearl River Delta and Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) Urban Regions
Principal Investigator
Professor Lin, George Chu Sheng   (Principal Investigator (PI))
Co-Investigator(s)
Dr Kao Shih-yang   (Co-Investigator)
Duration
36
Start Date
2017-01-01
Amount
967308
Conference Title
Building Sustainable Cities in China: Sustainable Development and Uneven Urban Transformation in the Pearl River Delta and Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei) Urban Regions
Presentation Title
Keywords
China's urban geography, China's urbanization, Environmentalism in China, Greening of the Chinese State, Sustainable Urban Development
Discipline
Human Geography,Urban Studies and Planning
Panel
Humanities & Social Sciences (H)
HKU Project Code
17662116
Grant Type
General Research Fund (GRF)
Funding Year
2016
Status
Completed
Objectives
1 To delineate the characteristics of sustainable development as an urban strategy; 2 To interrogate the reasons behind Chinese local officials’ growing interest in sustainable development; 3 To assess the social and economic consequences of sustainability-guided development in China’s urban regions.