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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Foreign Aid, Urbanization and Green Cities

Author : Jun Li

Published in: Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

Jun Li’s Chap. 7, by means of three case studies, answers the overarching questions of what works and could work in terms of scalability and transferability in terms of greening urban areas through foreign aid. The case studies are based on the Chinese urban areas of Tianjin, Wenchuan and Beichuan, as well as Curutiba in Brazil. These case study cities provide the opportunity to compare two already planned ecocities (Tianjin City and Curitiba) and two areas that are recovering from an earthquake that took place in 2008, such as Wenchuan area and Beichuan. From the case studies, Jun Li derives the conditions for successful planning, design and implementation of future ecocities to combat and respond to the challenges of climate change and how this vision can be catalyzed through foreign aid.

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Footnotes
1
For example, it is estimated that 93% of urban growth will occur in the developing nations in regard to future trends.
 
2
In Africa, Sudan, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been among the largest recipients of humanitarian aid.
 
3
The large majority of ecocity proposals are still at the planning stage, with no commonly defined standards.
 
4
General Motors, for example, is experimenting in the city to determine whether electric driverless cars could provide the solution to China’s pollution and traffic problems.
 
5
This region also includes the Wolong National Nature Reserve, which houses more than 150 endangered giant pandas.
 
6
In addition, the government organized various activities to ease the psychological trauma of the people by arranging, for example, guozhuang competitions (a traditional Qiang dance) or psychological lectures by professionals.
 
7
Tackling issues of pollution and poverty included such measures in low-income neighbourhoods as bus tokens awarded for recycling initiatives, or food and school supplies for trash collection.
 
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Metadata
Title
Foreign Aid, Urbanization and Green Cities
Author
Jun Li
Copyright Year
2018
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

Print ISBN: 978-981-10-5378-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-5379-5

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5379-5_7