Department of Tourism Management, Shenzhen Tourism College, Jinan University, 518053 Shenzhen, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jan 2;16(1):104. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16010104.
Neoliberal conservation has recently become a topic of academic research and a method of practice within the context of globalization. Less attention has been given to how neoliberal conservation has been practiced at the urban scale. This paper draws on the concept of 'urban-growth-oriented green grabbing' to capture the multidimensionality of the reasoning and process of ecological conservation in an urban growth context. It focuses on two ecological spatial protection plans for the DaPeng Peninsula in the city of Shenzhen, China. Through empirical investigation, this article traces the political economy of these plans and draws out the insights they offer regarding theories of urban environmentalism. The empirical results show that the ecological conservation plans are best understood as 'green grabbing' that has been achieved by land transfer and spatial interest redistribution. Conceptually, the paper provides further evidence of the process of neoliberal conservation within the urban context.
新自由主义保护主义最近成为全球化背景下学术研究和实践的一个主题。但人们对新自由主义保护主义如何在城市层面实施关注较少。本文借鉴了“以城市增长为导向的绿色掠夺”这一概念,以捕捉城市增长背景下生态保护的推理和过程的多维性。它侧重于中国深圳市大鹏半岛的两个生态空间保护计划。通过实证调查,本文追溯了这些计划的政治经济学,并从中得出了它们对城市环境主义理论的启示。实证结果表明,生态保护计划最好被理解为通过土地转让和空间利益再分配实现的“绿色掠夺”。从概念上讲,本文为城市背景下新自由主义保护主义的过程提供了进一步的证据。