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Financialized ecological civilization and cultural consumption: Mountain area development driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

2023
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Abstract

This presentation examines the paradoxical relationships between land financialization and ecological civilization, focusing on the case of Chongli, a mountain city co-hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics. Formerly a poverty-stricken mountain area, the Olympics catalyzed a Chongli model of territorial development with expanded transportation networks, a thriving winter sports economy, and real estate development. It signifies a shift in mountainous urbanization but also carries consequences.

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The ecological footprint is a method promoted by the Global Footprint Network to measure human demand on natural capital, i.e. the quantity of nature it takes to support people and their economies. It tracks this demand through an ecological accounting system. The accounts contrast the biologically productive area people use for their consumption to the biologically productive area available within a region, nation, or the world (biocapacity, the productive area that can regenerate what people demand from nature).

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