Shrinking cities and resource-based economy: The economic restructuring in China's mining cities

Cities

Volumn 60, Issue , 2017, Pages 75-83

  He, Sylvia Y ^a   Lee, Jeongwoo ^b   Zhou, Tao ^c   Wu, Dan ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Economic restructuring; Mining cities; Resource based economy; Shrinking cities

Indexed keywords

COAL MINING; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; POLICY MAKING; RESOURCE ECONOMY; URBAN POLICY;

CHINA; DAQING; HEILONGJIANG; JIANGXI; PINGXIANG [JIANGXI];

EID: 84981329851     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2016.07.009     Document Type: Article

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