Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative

This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape...

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Main Authors: Kelly, Ashley Scott (Author), Lu, Xiaoxuan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- A Pedagogy of Critical Landscape Planning -- From Golden Triangle to Economic Quadrangle -- Locating discourses and narratives for intervention -- Material sourcing and human-environment resiliency -- Chinese mass nature tourism and ecotourism -- Western alternative development and Chinese development -- Northern scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge -- Infrastructural connectivity and geographic difference. 
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