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This chapter addresses how environmental governance arrangements affect urban resilience and environmental justice in the context of an industrializing city in China. This chapter indicates that certain aspects of top-down management approaches can have a positive impact on responsiveness to environmental pressures, and that certain forms of co-production strategies can contribute towards adaptive and innovative capacity. This chapter also finds that low levels of procedural justice have a negative effect on environmental justice in terms of distribution of environmental risks. Regarding the relationship between urban resilience and environmental justice, the findings suggest that socio-economic interests often are prioritized at the expense of both, but also that increased procedural justice may contribute to capacity to create urban resilience.
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Westman, L. (2017). Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Beyond: Governance Perspectives on Urban Resilience and Environmental Justice in the People’s Republic of China. In: Allen, A., Griffin, L., Johnson, C. (eds) Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47354-7_2
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