《Role of Green Governance in Achieving Sustainable Urbanization in China》.pdf

China＆ WorldEconomy ／j9—36．Vo122,No．5．2014 RoleofGreenGovernanceinAchievingSustainable UrbanizationinChina MarianneFay,Jin—zhaoWang,GailiusDraugelis，UweDeichmann Abstract Sinceeconomicreformsbeganin1978,China urbanpopulationhasincreasedbYhalfa billion．Overthenext20years,citieswilllikelyaddanother300millionpeoplethroughlocal populationgrowth,migrationandtheintegrationofnearbyruralareas．Citiesaccountfor themajorityofresourceuseandpollutionsoachievinggreenergrowthwilldependon developingandimplementingamoresustainableurbanizationmode1．China leaders haverespondedtothesechallengeswithambitiousgoalsandcomprehensiveenvironmental lawsandregulations．Thesehavesofarnotsignfiicantlyreducedtheharmfromair,wa ， andsoilpollution inlargemeasurebecauseChina—sgreengovernancedoesnotmamhits greenambitions．DrawingontheWorldBank workongreengrowthandarecentjoint urbanationstudybytheDevelopmentResearchCenterofChinasStateCouncilandhte Worm Bank,thispaperreviewsrecentacademicresearchongreengovernanceinurban Chinaanddiscussesitsmainimplicationsinthecontextofemergingglobalgreengrowth concepts． Keywords：environmentalinstitutions，greengrowth，urbanization JELcodes：O13，P25，P48 ntroduction China’Sindustrializationhasfollowedatrajectorysimilartomostoftoday’Shighincome MarianneFay,ChiefEconomist，ClimateChangeVicePresidency,WorldBank，Washington，DC，USA． Email：mfay@worldbank．org；Jin—zhaoWang，DivisionChiefandSeniorResearchFellow，Industrial EconomicsResearchDepartment．DevelopmentResearchCenteroftheStateCouncilofPeople’s RepublicofChina，Beijing，China．Email：wan~z@drc．gov．cn；GailiusDraugelis，LeadEnergySpecialist， ChinaOffice，wor1dBank，Beijing，China．Email：gdraugelis@worldbank．org；UweDeichmann (correspondingauthor)，SeniorUrbanSpecialist，DevelopmentResearchGroup，W0rldBank，Washington， DC，USA．Email：u