A REVIEW ON THE RESEARCH OF URBAN AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN CHINA
HU Yan1,2, SUN Yi3, Roger C. K. CHAN3
1. School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
2. Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
3. Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract：Governance illuminates the interactions between state, market and civil society, and in particular highlights the role of government and social responsibility of civil society. This paper first reviews urban and regional governance among Chinese literature and finds that research of governance in China begins with observations at the urban level and proliferates due to more theoretical and empirical inputs from regional dimension. The second part deals with the scales of governance. Four types of governance have been identified from existing literature in human geography and related disciplines, namely, global, regional, urban and grassroots governance. Global governance tackles transnational issues regarding global peace, security and development. Regional governance aims to stimulate regional development under highly competitive global environment, which encompasses jurisdictional restructuring and inter-jurisdictional trade-offs. Urban governance depicts variegated local politics though which civil society stands out. Grassroots governance indicates the rising bottom-up initiatives that shake the mode of mono-state dominated urban development. The third part of the paper examines into the concept of collaborative governance, a new approach to facilitate formal engagement of principle stakeholders with a view to achieving consensus towards policy making.
胡燕, 孙羿, 陈振光. 中国城市与区域管治研究十年回顾与前瞻[J]. 人文地理, 2013, 28(2): 74-78.
HU Yan, SUN Yi, Roger C. K. CHAN. A REVIEW ON THE RESEARCH OF URBAN AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN CHINA. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2013, 28(2): 74-78.
