Greening China’s Urban Governance Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges

Dr. Jorgen Delman is a Professor of China Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His research examines state-society relations and political change in contemporary China. His current focus is on environmental aspects of urbanisation in China, China’s climate change politics, climate governance at city level, energy and energy security politics, and renewable energy development. He has worked for the UN Food and Agriculture representative office in Beijing, China, and was the Co-Director of the China-EU Centre for Agricultural Technology (CECAT) in the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture. 

Dr. Oscar Almen is a research fellow at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, where he teaches courses on development studies and qualitative methods. He obtained his PhD from Gothenburg University with a study of China’s Local People’s Congresses. His research focuses on political participation, political accountability, local governance innovations, social movement, andstate-civil society relations in China. His current research project examines regional political diversity in China based on relations between civil society and the local state in three Chinese municipalities. 

Dr. Yuan Ren is a Professor at Fudan University’s School of Social Development and Public Policy. He specializes in demography and urban studies, and has conducted several research projects and published on a wide range of topics that include population and development, aging studies, urbanization and migration, urban and regional development, urban affairs and welfare institution. 

Dr. Outi Louva works as a university lecturer at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the vice director of the Centre and the director of the Finnish University Network for Asian Studies. Her PhD thesis dealt with ethnicity-based economic cooperation between China’s ethnic Korean areas and South Korea. Luova’s recent research has focused on China’s urban governance, especially on environmental issues. 

Dr. Mattias Burell currently works as a lecturer at the Hankuk University of Foreign Languages. He has pursued research projects on China’s housing market reforms, migrant workers, and citizen trust in government. More recently, his research has focused on state-civil society relations, NGOs, and local environmental governance.