【经岚传递】城市环境治理的理论框架

【经岚传递】16L52

城市环境治理的理论框架

——[读论文]之“环境经济政策分析”系列

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本期【经岚传递】所介绍的是来自于Sueli de Faria等人发表在Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 20 Iss 6 pp. 638 - 648(2009)上的"A theoretical approach to urban environmental governance in times of change"一文。

文章摘要

文章主要探讨城市可持续发展过程中的“良性治理”问题，在国际社会中，面对城市环境问题，“治理”已经成为最为重要的共识之一。

文章着重为城市的环境治理提供一个理论框架，以及为城市可持续发展提供合理的评估方法。

文章分析表明，从治理的本义来看，它是为制度研究以及政府和非政府组织间的互动提供方向，尽管如此，即便在民主体系下，对于发展中国家，仍然缺乏可行的、某种统一的模式来实现“良性治理”。此外，就知识的架构而言，文章认为，从致力于可持续发展的社会评价来看，城市治理指标是非常有用而且必要的工具。

文章提出了一种用来在项目的不同结果间进行比较分析的城市环境治理评估模型，这为城市的可持续发展制度设计提供了科学的依据。

关键词：环境管理，城区，全球变暖，生态，城市

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the ideal meaning of good governance for cities sustainability, basing itself on the international consensus of governance as the most important issue when facing urban environmental problems.

Design/methodology/approach – Focusing on urban environmental problems and based on discussions about environmental governance and sustainability carried out throughout the last decades, the paper recognizes that the discussions on environmental governance, although presenting converging ideas and some successful examples, are still to convey a definitive framework as a base to be followed and consolidated. For this reason, it aims to offer a theoretical framework for handling urban environmental governance, as well as an approach that allows one to recognize ways for an appropriate assessment of cities sustainability.

Findings – The results of the analysis suggest that, while the notion of governance offers a direction in researches addressing the study of institutions and of the interaction between governmental and non-governmental actors, there is still a lack of applicable and appropriate models to achieve good governance in a democratic way, especially in developing countries. Another important conclusion lies in the perception that, for knowledge construction purposes, as well as for structure policies and measurement of society’s achievements towards a more sustainable development, urban environmental governance indicators are a helpful and thoroughly necessary tool.

Originality/value – Developing an urban environmental governance assessment model allows for comparisons in between analytical results of projects implemented or under implementation, creating

a scientific basis for designing sustainable institutional arrangements in future projects.

Keywords Environmental management, Urban regions, Global warming, Ecology, Cities

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