Editorial: Environmental Governance of Urban and Regional Development – Scales and Sectors, Conflict and Cooperation
Editorial: Environmental Governance of Urban and Regional Development – Scales and Sectors, Conflict and Cooperation
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社论：城市和区域发展的环境治理——规模与部门、冲突与合作
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2016
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Gerd Lintz
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D. Gibbs;Gerd Lintz
近年来，人们继续关注人类经济活动对环境的有害影响，特别是全球变暖加剧、海平面上升、土地退化和毁林。虽然可以说，经济发展和增长仍然是各级政府的优先事项，但这些政府也通过越来越多的政策举措表达了使这种发展更具可持续性和环境友好型的愿望。决策者越来越关心如何使环境保护措施与经济发展目标相辅相成。人们没有将环境与经济对立起来，而是注重发展绿色或低碳经济的增长潜力（经合组织，2011年）。在城市和区域范围内，政府越来越多地开始尝试将自己定位为新形式的绿色经济投资的目的地，作为新一轮资本积累的来源（吉布斯和奥尼尔，2014年）。总的来说，围绕环境、气候变化和可持续性的问题对城市和地区的决策者来说越来越重要。
Recent years have continued to see a concern for the detrimental environmental impacts of human economic activities particularly in the form of enhanced global warming, sea level rise, land degradation and deforestation. Although it can be argued that economic development and growth remain the priority for governments at a variety of spatial scales or levels, these same governments also express a desire through a growing number of policy initiatives to make such development more sustainable and environmentally-friendly. A growing interest amongst policy makers has been in identifying the ways in which environmental protection measures can be made complementary to economic development aims. Rather than seeing the environment and the economy in opposition, there has been a focus on the growth potential from developing a green or low-carbon economy (OECD, 2011). At the urban and regional scale governments have increasingly begun to try and position themselves as destinations for new forms of green economy investments as a source of a new round of capital accumulation (GIBBS and O’NEILL, 2014). In total then, questions around the environment, climate change and sustainability look set to grow in importance for decision makers in cities and regions.