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CITIES
Volume 54, Issue -, Pages 20-27Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2015.10.011
Keywords
Energy transition; Low carbon green city; South Korea; Green growth; Renewable energy
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- National Research Foundation of Korea Grant - Korean Government (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [특화전문대학원-02] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Environmental and energy problems confronting South Korea brought a paradigm shift in the urban development toward low-carbon green city since the declaration of Green Growth Strategy in 2008. The South Korean governments set the goal to increase urban energy self-sufficiency through renewable energy generation and implemented various urban energy projects. However, the outcome of those urban green energy projects showed a varying degree of success. While the top-down approach led by the government facilitated the spread of urban green energy strategies in a short period of time, it also showed some drawbacks, such as the gap of willingness between the central government and the local governments and low level of community involvement. Although the importance of citizen participation in the transition to urban energy self-sufficiency has been emphasized in a rhetoric, energy projects that residents played a key role were rare in Korea. The urban energy transition in the low carbon green city projects needs to be supplemented by reinforced bottom-up approaches with the momentum from local governments as well as active citizen participation during the planning and implementation process. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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