To what extent can technology compensate for institutional failure in an urban environmental management setting: The case of China

摘要: Abstract The sustainability of the urban environment has been on minds policymakers around globe for decades as megacities continue to grow and thrive contrary expectation. common wisdom is that environmental stress will severely curtail any future potential. China in some respect at forefront this debate with cities such Beijing Shanghai, which seem have made reasonable accommodation their limited natural resources. This result a unique combination institutional reform judiciously applied technologies borrowed from elsewhere. continues be great dynamic whereby management continually one step behind economic progress. China's path bears watching since much can learned it become very clear rest either suffer or benefit result.