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Title	Chinese Cities As Digital Environmental Governance Innovators: Evidence From Subnational Low-Carbon Plans
ID_Doc	13928
Authors	Hsu A.; Lili L.; Schletz M.; Yu Z.
Year	2024
Published	Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51, 3
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23998083231186622
Abstract	Research examining the rise of digital environmental governance, particularly at the subnational scale in China, is fairly limited. Critical questions regarding how digital technologies applied at the subnational level may shape or transform environmental governance are only beginning to be explored, given cities’ increasing role as sustainability experimenters and innovators. In this study, we investigate how smart city initiatives that incorporate big data, artificial intelligence, 5G, Internet of Things, and information communication technologies, may play a role in the transformation towards a “digital China.” We conceptualize three major pathways by which digital technology could transform environmental governance in China: through the generation of new data to address existing environmental data gaps; by enhancing the policy analytical capacity of environmental actors through the use of automation, digitalization, and machine learning/artificial intelligence; and last, through reshaping subnational-national, and state-society interactions that may shift balances of power. With its dual prioritization of digital technologies and climate change, China presents an opportunity for examining digitalization trends and to identify gaps in governance and implementation challenges that could present obstacles to realizing the transformative potential of digital environmental management approaches. © The Author(s) 2023.
Author Keywords	China; cities; digital environmental governance; policy innovation; smart cities

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