@inbook{0f10606e75fb41bca930a9ed8f02f6ac,
title = "Are Model Cities an Effective Instrument for Urban Environmental Governance?",
abstract = "Since the 1980s, China{\textquoteright}s central government has created various model and incentive schemes aimed at systematically and concurrently promoting innovative approaches for protecting the urban ecological environment. In this context, programmes such as the {\textquoteleft}model city for protecting the environment{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}garden city{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}eco-city{\textquoteright}, or {\textquoteleft}low-carbon city{\textquoteright} have become an integral part of China{\textquoteright}s system for urban environmental governance. However, the role of these policy-incentive schemes for promoting best practice is only partly understood. This chapter contributes to the literature with a conceptualization of model cities as a dynamic governance instrument. The analysis suggests that the distance between programme objectives and local practices increases with programme maturity. Model-city schemes inevitably reach a point of saturation once a competing programme provides new opportunities to gain political and economic rents.",
author = "Stefan Brehm and Jesper Svensson",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-13-0740-9_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789811307393",
series = "ARI - Springer Asia Series",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "25--49",
editor = "J{\o}rgen Delman and Yuan Ren and Outi Luova and Mattias Burell and Oscar Alm{\'e}n",
booktitle = "Greening China's Urban Governance",
address = "Germany",
}