This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and development support with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucratic reforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipal governments have...

China's national leaders see restructuring and diversification away from resourcebased, energy intensive industries as central goals in the coming years. This paper argues that the high turnover of leading cadres at the local level may hinder state-led greening growth initiatives. Frequent cadre...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools to promote a variety of public goals and policies. In the past years much attention has been given to the expected social benefits from deploying ICT in different fields (transportation, education, public participation...

Europe is currently facing major new challenges such as globalisation, climate change, the demographic decline, migration and energy security. EU’s urban policies are critical for the competitiveness growth of European cities. The integrated urban development policies offer a set of tools...

This paper advances a composite indicator called urban environmental virtuosity index (UEVI), in order to measure the efforts made by public local bodies in applying an ecosystem approach to urban management. UEVI employs the less exploited process-based selection criteria for representing the...

In the name of sustainable development, cities should be made compact, that is to say denser and less prone to urban sprawl. This requirement is often presented under a purely technical aspect. The objective of this article is to highlight the political and social stakes of the policies aiming...

This article proposes an interpretation of the rationales and social movements (social networks for the collection of residential property and land, urban riots, etc) that have appeared in the past few years as a result of access to the residential properties produced and distributed by the...