Green urbanism as a strategy for carbon control: a reflexive reconsideration

Economic depression with the neoliberal process of glocalization on the one hand and energy drainage and climate change deepened on the global scale on the other have led strategy for carbon control both on the national and the local levels which presupposes decoupling between economic growth and environmental degradation. With this kind of problematic, this paper tries to see the recent pursuit of strategy of carbon control on the urban level in terms of ‘green urbanism’. The term green urbanism, as it has been suggested by some scholars, means more or less normatively a renewable, carbon-neutral, and eco-efficient city. But this concept seems to presuppose a transformation from sustainable development to low-carbon green growth as we can see the development process of environmental policies in Western countries. The concept of green urbanism as well as that of green state which has emerged in this transformation process can be seen as a strategy to contribute capital accumulation through neoliberal environmental fix and to construct a new regime through carbon control governance. In recent Korea, this kind of strategy for carbon control has been introduced in a similar manner. But the strategy for low carbon green growth and low-carbon green city(or urbanism) in Korea seem neither to recognize the importance of urban scale for the strategy nor to understand the social and environmental context on the structural level, and hence not only the Lee Myung-Bak’s central government mobilized this strategy in a highly distorted manner, but also most of the local governments could not see the necessity for pursuing the strategy voluntarily.

keywords: 탄소규제 전략, 녹색도시주의, 녹색국가, 저탄소 녹색성장, 신자유주의, strategy for carbon control, green urbanism, green state, low-carbon green growth, neoliberalism

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Green urbanism as a strategy for carbon control: a reflexive reconsideration

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