Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103281
Yuechao Chao , Na Deng , Yahui Du , Gang Yao , Zhihua Zhou
To address the urgent need to reduce global carbon emissions and mitigate climate change, China has prioritized the promotion of ultra-low energy consumption green buildings as a key strategy for advancing national carbon neutrality goals. This study explores the critical role of ULEC buildings in supporting these goals by establishing a collaborative framework among the government (GOVT), green real estate developers (GRED), and housebuyers (HBs). Employing a tripartite evolutionary game model informed by current Chinese policies and regulations, this research simulates the dynamic interactions and stable strategies among these stakeholders. Our findings indicate that adjusting land purchase costs and implementing carbon emission fines effectively incentivizes government engagement in cooperative projects, with optimal land valuation identified between 800 and 850 $/m2 and carbon emission penalties between 28 and 32 $/t. Subsidies emerge as essential for encouraging active participation from GRED and HBs, yet careful calibration of subsidy levels is recommended to ensure sustainability. This study contributes valuable insights into policy formulation, highlighting actionable strategies to accelerate the development of ultra-low energy consumption green buildings as part of China's path to carbon neutrality.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103289
Meiling Wu , Qian Forrest Zhang
Alternative food networks (AFNs) have been increasingly perceived as an engine for rural revitalization, yet AFNs can differ in their founding motivations, operational methods, and organizational forms, which thus produce varying economic, social, and environmental outcomes. Despite this, the complexity of AFNs in the role of rural revitalization remains surprisingly under-researched. This study, drawing a distinction between producer-oriented and consumer-oriented AFNs in China, explores the dynamics of how producer-oriented and consumer-oriented AFNs are formed and give rise to distinct trajectories of rural revitalization. When AFNs prioritize producers' pursuit of alternatives to conventional agrifood systems over merely catering to urban consumers’ instrumental needs, AFNs can then become a catalyst for rural revitalization by driving the transformation of the agrifood economy, the benefits of which are subsequently leveraged to enhance the living environment and community fabric. This study has significant implications for the role of AFNs in facilitating rural development.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103269
Adar Stern, Meidad Kissinger
As urbanization continues globally, assessing the state of development, well-being, and sustainability of cities and towns is critical. Most previous studies have predominantly relied on a single assessment system, often aligned with a specific perspective. This paper presents a study aimed at advancing a multi-criteria framework for assessing urban settlement performance. The proposed framework brings together diverse perspectives, emphasizing various assumptions about what should be considered positive or negative for different aspects of urban development, well-being, and sustainability. The analysis initially explores the structure and content of this proposed assessment framework, adapting existing leading international approaches to local urban scales. Three themes are advanced, each emphasizing a somewhat different perspective: (a) the conventional approach, which prioritizes socio-economic factors; (b) an integrated approach that quantifies the quality of life and well-being, emphasizing the need for social, economic, and environmental indicators; and (c) a socio-environmental perspective, employing a ‘strong sustainability’ approach within the context of planetary boundaries. Here we examine the Israeli urban sector by analyzing 89 urban settlements of varying characteristics, including size, economic status, social and cultural-religious attributes, and geographical location aggregated into six clusters. Our analysis reveals a range of scores between and within each theme of the analyzed settlements and aggregated clusters. As expected, high socioeconomic towns and cities are receiving the highest scores based on the conventional theme and low income, and specifically minority towns the lowest. But within this theme, a range of scores are presented and no single settlement receives a perfect score. Embracing the integrated theme and using the socio-environmental theme results are changes, and leading settlements by one theme may rank lower by another. This work provides a unique perspective on development and may signal alternative directions for progress.
{"title":"A multi-perspective framework for assessing urban well-being, development, and sustainability","authors":"Adar Stern, Meidad Kissinger","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103269","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103269","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As urbanization continues globally, assessing the state of development, well-being, and sustainability of cities and towns is critical. Most previous studies have predominantly relied on a single assessment system, often aligned with a specific perspective. This paper presents a study aimed at advancing a multi-criteria framework for assessing urban settlement performance. The proposed framework brings together diverse perspectives, emphasizing various assumptions about what should be considered positive or negative for different aspects of urban development, well-being, and sustainability. The analysis initially explores the structure and content of this proposed assessment framework, adapting existing leading international approaches to local urban scales. Three themes are advanced, each emphasizing a somewhat different perspective: (a) the conventional approach, which prioritizes socio-economic factors; (b) an integrated approach that quantifies the quality of life and well-being, emphasizing the need for social, economic, and environmental indicators; and (c) a socio-environmental perspective, employing a ‘strong sustainability’ approach within the context of planetary boundaries. Here we examine the Israeli urban sector by analyzing 89 urban settlements of varying characteristics, including size, economic status, social and cultural-religious attributes, and geographical location aggregated into six clusters. Our analysis reveals a range of scores between and within each theme of the analyzed settlements and aggregated clusters. As expected, high socioeconomic towns and cities are receiving the highest scores based on the conventional theme and low income, and specifically minority towns the lowest. But within this theme, a range of scores are presented and no single settlement receives a perfect score. Embracing the integrated theme and using the socio-environmental theme results are changes, and leading settlements by one theme may rank lower by another. This work provides a unique perspective on development and may signal alternative directions for progress.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103269"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103267
Nannan Zhao , Yuting Liu , Shenjing He
Informal governance is associated with the collective actions of multi-scalar participants in neighborhood regeneration for the “right to the city”. As an alternative to the unitary state structure, the changing state-market-society relations in China provide fruitful material for understanding the informality in urban governance. Drawing upon Giddens's structuration theory, this paper identifies three interconvertible configurations of informal governance in China's neighborhood regeneration by elaborating on the interaction between community activists' structural constraints and their active agencies. The results are threefold: 1) Collective actions that take place at the community level are often subject to structural constraints, where governance configurations in relation to neighborhood regeneration policymaking are determined by the different disposable resources behind the intersubjective relationships of key actors. 2) The public affected by neighborhood regeneration can facilitate collective self-emancipation through engaging in insurgent practices, mobilizing the community, and creating the commons to escape market and state constraints. 3) Community actions not only shape a collective consciousness among proactive participants but also reflect the subversion of local policies and the reshuffling of informal governance configurations. Echoing the discursive shift towards participatory planning in China, this paper contributes to the literature on informality in urban governance by revealing the trajectories of informal governance reconfiguration through insurgencies, negotiations, and empowerment.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103295
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Piyush Tiwari, Andrew Martel
Despite the need for the housing sector to be more innovative, there are limited empirical insights into the influence of uncertainty on innovative housebuilding technology adoption (whether as greenbuilding technologies or otherwise). In exploring the dimensions of uncertainty, this paper asks the following questions: does reducing uncertainty enhance adoption likelihood? Which dimensions of uncertainty, if reduced, will generate significant increases in innovation adoption likelihood among developers? These questions are examined using survey data from residential developers in Ghana and an extended version of transaction cost economics as the theoretical background. We extracted three dimensions of transaction-related uncertainties, which cumulatively explained 62% of the total variance of uncertainty. Only market demand uncertainties were related to adopting four of the six nonconventional walling materials examined. The probability of adopting these technologies increased by 9.3–14.1 percentage points with an increase in predictability of market demand. Increased predictability of housing supply-side conditions did not affect the likelihood of adopting any of the walling technologies. Our findings further reveal a contrast between adoption intentions and actual practices. The findings suggest that innovation policy should address the multidimensional nature of uncertainty concerning the specific technologies it seeks to influence their adoption.
{"title":"Beyond intentions: Transaction uncertainties and developers’ adoption of nonconventional housebuilding technologies","authors":"Godwin Kavaarpuo, Piyush Tiwari, Andrew Martel","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103295","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103295","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the need for the housing sector to be more innovative, there are limited empirical insights into the influence of uncertainty on innovative housebuilding technology adoption (whether as greenbuilding technologies or otherwise). In exploring the dimensions of uncertainty, this paper asks the following questions: does reducing uncertainty enhance adoption likelihood? Which dimensions of uncertainty, if reduced, will generate significant increases in innovation adoption likelihood among developers? These questions are examined using survey data from residential developers in Ghana and an extended version of transaction cost economics as the theoretical background. We extracted three dimensions of transaction-related uncertainties, which cumulatively explained 62% of the total variance of uncertainty. Only market demand uncertainties were related to adopting four of the six nonconventional walling materials examined. The probability of adopting these technologies increased by 9.3–14.1 percentage points with an increase in predictability of market demand. Increased predictability of housing supply-side conditions did not affect the likelihood of adopting any of the walling technologies. Our findings further reveal a contrast between adoption intentions and actual practices. The findings suggest that innovation policy should address the multidimensional nature of uncertainty concerning the specific technologies it seeks to influence their adoption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"156 ","pages":"Article 103295"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143138466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103256
Shengtian Jin , Dandan Zhao , Bingfei Bao
In a rural revitalization context, promoting the continuous optimization of rural human settlements (RHS) is exigent. This article discusses the logical relationship between the rural revitalization strategy and RHS, constructs an evaluation index system for RHS quality in the Dabie Mountains Old Revolutionary Base Area (DMORA), describes the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of RHS quality in 47 counties (cities) of the DMORA from 2006 to 2021, reveals the interactions and coordinated development between various subsystems, and uses an obstacle degree model to identify the obstacle factors hindering the improvement of RHS quality. The results are as follows. (1) The overall level of the RHS quality index in the DMORA is not high, and it showed a continuous and stable upward trend from 2006 to 2021. However, the improvement speed of each county (city) is inconsistent, and regional differences are increasing. (2) From the perspective of each subsystem, during the research period, the quality index of rural production environment, rural living environment, and rural sociocultural environment showed an upward trend, and regional differences continued to increase. The rural ecological environment quality index showed a reduction in regional differences. (3) The degree of interaction between various subsystems of the RHS in the DMORA is gradually increasing, the level of coordinated development is slowly improving, and regional development is gradually balanced, but the overall level remains low. Therefore, it is necessary to further promote the coordinated development of various subsystems. (4) Per capita electricity consumption of rural residents; agricultural output value per land; proportion of output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery services; per capita total output value of rural agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery; and afforestation area are the main obstacle factors affecting RHS quality, and they are also the objects that need to be focused on and regulated. The research results have not only enriched the theoretical achievements regarding RHS research to a certain extent but also provided decision-making support for promoting the improvement of RHS quality in the DMORA.
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Rural spatial commercialization has emerged as a focal point of interest in the field of rural geography. This study, Taking Tanka Fishing Village of Xincun Town in Lingshui Autonomous County of Hainan Province as a case, and based on the data and materials collected from field investigation and semi-structured questionnaire interview, analyzed the evolution process and characteristics of spatial commercialization, and examined the social network relationships and its underlying mechanism driven by multiple heterogeneous subjects utilizing Social Network Analysis. The aim is to provide practical guidance for the industrial transformation, upgrading, and preservation utilization of Tanka Fishing Village, as well as other traditional villages with similar profiles. The findings indicate that, firstly, as rural spaces transition from productivism to post-productivism and multi-functional countryside, the spatial commercialization of Tanka Fishing Village has also undergone a transformation from being predominantly fisheries to a fusion of fisheries and tourism, and subsequently to an integration of fisheries, tourism and culture. Secondly, the evolution of spatial commercialization within Tanka Fishing Village is a practical process where various heterogeneous subjects, including governments, businesses, village committees, Tanka people, and tourists, establish social relationship networks through a series of negotiations and strategic interactions. The social network relationship of heterogeneous subjects has gradually shifted from an ‘enterprise-driven cluster network’ to a ‘government-led tight network’ and ultimately to a ‘relatively balanced network driven by rural talents’. The role of external heterogeneous subjects, such as enterprises and government departments, in the social networks has progressively weakened, whereas the importance of internal heterogeneous subjects, including social groups and rural talents, has correspondingly increased. This shift has fortified the endogenous momentum of spatial commercialization in Tanka Fishing Village. Ultimately, strengthening government policy guidance, fostering innovative business models, encouraging villager participation, and refining the benefit-sharing mechanism are crucial strategies for promoting the sustainable commercial development and preservation of Tanka Fishing Village in Lingshui Autonomous County, China.
{"title":"Social network analysis of heterogeneous subjects driving spatial commercialization of traditional villages: A case study of Tanka Fishing Village in Lingshui Li Autonomous county, China","authors":"Yeqing Cheng, Xueyan Fei, Liusha Luo, Xiping Kong, Jinping Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103235","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103235","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural spatial commercialization has emerged as a focal point of interest in the field of rural geography. This study, Taking Tanka Fishing Village of Xincun Town in Lingshui Autonomous County of Hainan Province as a case, and based on the data and materials collected from field investigation and semi-structured questionnaire interview, analyzed the evolution process and characteristics of spatial commercialization, and examined the social network relationships and its underlying mechanism driven by multiple heterogeneous subjects utilizing Social Network Analysis. The aim is to provide practical guidance for the industrial transformation, upgrading, and preservation utilization of Tanka Fishing Village, as well as other traditional villages with similar profiles. The findings indicate that, firstly, as rural spaces transition from productivism to post-productivism and multi-functional countryside, the spatial commercialization of Tanka Fishing Village has also undergone a transformation from being predominantly fisheries to a fusion of fisheries and tourism, and subsequently to an integration of fisheries, tourism and culture. Secondly, the evolution of spatial commercialization within Tanka Fishing Village is a practical process where various heterogeneous subjects, including governments, businesses, village committees, Tanka people, and tourists, establish social relationship networks through a series of negotiations and strategic interactions. The social network relationship of heterogeneous subjects has gradually shifted from an ‘enterprise-driven cluster network’ to a ‘government-led tight network’ and ultimately to a ‘relatively balanced network driven by rural talents’. The role of external heterogeneous subjects, such as enterprises and government departments, in the social networks has progressively weakened, whereas the importance of internal heterogeneous subjects, including social groups and rural talents, has correspondingly increased. This shift has fortified the endogenous momentum of spatial commercialization in Tanka Fishing Village. Ultimately, strengthening government policy guidance, fostering innovative business models, encouraging villager participation, and refining the benefit-sharing mechanism are crucial strategies for promoting the sustainable commercial development and preservation of Tanka Fishing Village in Lingshui Autonomous County, China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103235"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103248
Luan Chen , Minsheng Li , Yaofu Huang
As China's urbanization advances, residents' demands for quality of life and enhanced public services have grown more prominent. This paper examines the shift in county-level urbanization drivers, focusing on a welfare-oriented, education-driven model that balances production with public service needs. Through statistical data, surveys, interviews, and big data analysis, a case study illustrates both macro and micro mechanisms of education-driven migration to county towns. Findings show that rural families increasingly view access to quality education and desirable school districts as rational, intergenerational investments. Government efforts to improve educational services and relax household registration restrictions have facilitated this transition from industry-led to education-driven urbanization. This study offers new insights into fostering urbanization by highlighting the equal importance of public services and employment opportunities.
{"title":"From industry to education-driven urbanization: A welfare transformation of urbanization in Chinese counties","authors":"Luan Chen , Minsheng Li , Yaofu Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As China's urbanization advances, residents' demands for quality of life and enhanced public services have grown more prominent. This paper examines the shift in county-level urbanization drivers, focusing on a welfare-oriented, education-driven model that balances production with public service needs. Through statistical data, surveys, interviews, and big data analysis, a case study illustrates both macro and micro mechanisms of education-driven migration to county towns. Findings show that rural families increasingly view access to quality education and desirable school districts as rational, intergenerational investments. Government efforts to improve educational services and relax household registration restrictions have facilitated this transition from industry-led to education-driven urbanization. This study offers new insights into fostering urbanization by highlighting the equal importance of public services and employment opportunities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48376,"journal":{"name":"Habitat International","volume":"155 ","pages":"Article 103248"},"PeriodicalIF":6.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-30DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103234
Stephen Leonard Mensah , Seth Asare Okyere , Louis Kusi Frimpong , Alex Boakye Asiedu , Mariama Zaami , Matthew Abunyewah
Decades of political ambivalence, housing injustice, and a neoliberal housing sector aided by the government’s lax approach to housing provision have meant that, private rental housing remains the predominant sector for housing urban residents and their shifting geographies into secondary cities. Residential satisfaction in urban areas provides an important socio-spatial view of the housing sector in secondary cities and its implications for the inclusive and sustainable development of small and medium-sized cities. Yet, a large set of studies into the private rental housing sector has paid little attention to the influence of housing services (i.e. satisfaction with maintenance services, utility services and privacy) on residential satisfaction amongst private rental households. Using an ordinal logistic regression model and based on a sample size of 246 private rental households, this paper examined the influence of sociodemographic and housing services (i.e. satisfaction with maintenance services, utility services and privacy) variables on residential satisfaction amongst private rental households living in Cape Coast, Ghana. The chi-square test revealed a significant relationship between duration of stay (χ2 = 15.908, p = 0.003), satisfaction with maintenance service (χ2 = 98.477, p = 0.000), satisfaction with utility services (electricity and water) (χ2 = 45.934, p = 0.000), satisfaction with privacy (χ2 = 41.252, p = 0.000) and residential satisfaction. Further, the logistic regression analysis also showed a significant negative relationship between maintenance services (β = −3.928, p < 0.001), utility services (electricity and water) (β = −1.033, p < 0.001), privacy (β = −2.716, p < 0.01) and residential satisfaction. The findings call for the attention of both researchers and policymakers to recognize the inseparable relationship between housing and the broader built environment and to address challenges confronting the rental housing sector—considering that the quality of the residential environment is directly linked to the quality of life and the socio-physical well-being of residents.
几十年来的政治矛盾，住房不公正，以及政府宽松的住房供应方式所支持的新自由主义住房部门，意味着私人租赁住房仍然是城市居民居住的主要部门，他们的地理位置正在向二线城市转移。城市地区的居住满意度为二级城市住房部门及其对中小城市包容性和可持续发展的影响提供了重要的社会空间视角。然而，大量有关私人租赁房屋的研究，却很少关注房屋服务（即对维修服务、公用事业服务和私隐的满意程度）对私人租赁住户居住满意度的影响。本文使用有序逻辑回归模型，基于246个私人租赁家庭的样本量，研究了社会人口统计学和住房服务（即对维护服务、公用事业服务和隐私的满意度）变量对居住在加纳海岸角私人租赁家庭居住满意度的影响。卡方检验显示，住院时间（χ2 = 15.908, p = 0.003）、维修服务满意度（χ2 = 98.477, p = 0.000）、公用事业服务（水电）满意度（χ2 = 45.934, p = 0.000）、隐私满意度（χ2 = 41.252, p = 0.000）和居住满意度之间存在显著关系。此外，logistic回归分析也显示，维修服务之间呈显著负相关(β = - 3.928, p <；0.001)，公用事业服务（电力和水）(β = - 1.033, p <；0.001)，隐私(β = - 2.716, p <；0.01)和居住满意度。研究结果呼吁研究人员和政策制定者注意到住房与更广泛的建筑环境之间不可分割的关系，并解决租赁住房部门面临的挑战——考虑到居住环境的质量与居民的生活质量和社会-身体健康直接相关。
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