The Green Olympic Movement: Beijing 2008 Full citation and abstract? Beyer, S., "The Green Olympic Movement: Beijing 2008." Chinese Journal of International Law (2006): 423-40. Accessed Oct. 10 2015, doi: 10.1093/chinesejil/jml018 Abstract The paper investigates in how 2008 Olympic Game drive Beijing to reform sustainable development and give solutions to serious environmental problems. The paper lists general improvement and gives recommendations for long-term sustainable development to preserve the legacy of green Olympic Game.
Where do the authors work, and what are their areas of expertise? Note any other publications by the authors with relevance to the 6Cities project. Dr. Stefanie Beyer LL.M., a lawyer specializing in administrative law in Köln, Germany, specialized in Public Construction Law, Environmental Law, Civil Service Law
What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article or report? The article address the effort Beijing made in Green Olympic order to make it more competitive in Olympic bid. It evaluates Beijing’s Olympic Action Plan, which provides strategies and solutions to Beijing’s energy and environmental problems. The paper also points out some shortcomings of the plan but overall affirm that the Olympic Game was a catalyst for changes in Beijing environment.
Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported. The “Beijing Olympic Action Plan” primarily focuses on the reorganization of Beijing’s energy structure, air pollution, water pollution and solid waste control.
According to the plan, coal will provide less than 20 percent of the energy structure and have higher quality and lower sulfur content. The plan calls for employ new energy resources as alternative to coal such as gas, geothermal, solar. The plan also banned leaded gas, expand rail transportation to ease the air pollution and reduce traffic accidents. The plan provides measures to protect groundwater and to restore reservoirs. The plan set goal for solid waste reduction and reduce the solid waste at their source.
However, the paper points out that implementation of the plan may cause new environmental problems. The paper states that to achieve green look for the Games would use tremendous amounts of groundwater and exacerbate the water shortage. Moving factories out of Beijing to improve air quality would be damaging to surrounding areas.
What three (or more) quotes capture the message of the article or report? “The plan openly acknowledges the city’s key problems and presents both strategies and long-term solutions to Beijing’s energy and water supply, environmental pollution and transportation insufficiencies.”
“However, the massive infrastructure projects also have the potential for new environmental problems.”
“Provided this project roots in the fundamental commitment towards sustainable development and is no simple add-on which threatens to disappear in the organizational hierarchy of the Games, the city will certainly make significant improvements.”
What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report? The article references green Olympic movement in previous Olympic games and examine how Beijing Olympic Game comply with the Green Olympic theme. It references specific measures, which was proposed in Beijing Olympic Action Plan to illustrate how they address the environmental problems and improve the environmental condition.
How (if at all) are health disparities or other equity issues addressed in the article or report? The paper states that “Olympic Green” will use up large amount of groundwater therefore very likely to intensify the existing water shortage. I think the water shortage may affect rural and agricultural area more than Beijing. In addition, moving factories out of the city may improve air quality in the capital but will probably threaten the environment of the surrounding area.
Where has this article or report been referenced or discussed? (In some journals, you can see this in a sidebar.) Green Olympics, green legacies? An exploration of the environmental legacies of the Olympic Games International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2013) 48 (4): 485-504
Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced? Nearly half of the citation the paper used is from Beijing Olympic Action Plan. Another big amount of citation is about examining emerging green Olympic concept. I think the article is produced from majorly literature review and author’s previous experience on environmental law and politics.
What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of how air pollution science has been produced and used in governance and education in different settings? I follow up on Beijing solution to the water shortage. I find out that currently 81% water Beijing consumes comes from Hebei Province. This partly contributed to large economic development difference between Beijing and its surround area in Hebei Province. In 2005, the Asia Development Bank report first proposed the concept of “Poverty belt around Beijing and Tianjin”(环京津贫困带). In the region, there are 2.72 million poverty population with less than 625 CNY(100 USD) annual income in 2005. Beijing’s need for better air quality and water source leads to restriction on natural resources utilization and industrial and agricultural production in its surrounding area.
How the literature supports/opposes what you knew about 2008 Beijing Olympics?
I thought Beijing voluntarily put forward the theme of Green Olympics. However, the article suggests that the impetus to Beijing’s decision to make sustainable development a major component of the Olympic bid was rather a reaction to losing the desired 2000 Olympic Games to Sydney, Australia.
How the literature could be useful in assessing air quality management during the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
The literature provides detailed description of the action plan and evaluate the possible failing and shortcomings of the measurements that are proposed by the plan.
Full citation and abstract?
Beyer, S., "The Green Olympic Movement: Beijing 2008." Chinese Journal of International Law (2006): 423-40. Accessed Oct. 10 2015, doi: 10.1093/chinesejil/jml018
Abstract
The paper investigates in how 2008 Olympic Game drive Beijing to reform sustainable development and give solutions to serious environmental problems. The paper lists general improvement and gives recommendations for long-term sustainable development to preserve the legacy of green Olympic Game.
Where do the authors work, and what are their areas of expertise? Note any other publications by the authors with relevance to the 6Cities project.
Dr. Stefanie Beyer LL.M., a lawyer specializing in administrative law in Köln, Germany, specialized in Public Construction Law, Environmental Law, Civil Service Law
What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article or report?
The article address the effort Beijing made in Green Olympic order to make it more competitive in Olympic bid. It evaluates Beijing’s Olympic Action Plan, which provides strategies and solutions to Beijing’s energy and environmental problems. The paper also points out some shortcomings of the plan but overall affirm that the Olympic Game was a catalyst for changes in Beijing environment.
Describe at least three ways that the argument is supported.
The “Beijing Olympic Action Plan” primarily focuses on the reorganization of Beijing’s energy structure, air pollution, water pollution and solid waste control.
According to the plan, coal will provide less than 20 percent of the energy structure and have higher quality and lower sulfur content. The plan calls for employ new energy resources as alternative to coal such as gas, geothermal, solar. The plan also banned leaded gas, expand rail transportation to ease the air pollution and reduce traffic accidents. The plan provides measures to protect groundwater and to restore reservoirs. The plan set goal for solid waste reduction and reduce the solid waste at their source.
However, the paper points out that implementation of the plan may cause new environmental problems. The paper states that to achieve green look for the Games would use tremendous amounts of groundwater and exacerbate the water shortage. Moving factories out of Beijing to improve air quality would be damaging to surrounding areas.
What three (or more) quotes capture the message of the article or report?
“The plan openly acknowledges the city’s key problems and presents both strategies and long-term solutions to Beijing’s energy and water supply, environmental pollution and transportation insufficiencies.”
“However, the massive infrastructure projects also have the potential for new environmental problems.”
“Provided this project roots in the fundamental commitment towards sustainable development and is no simple add-on which threatens to disappear in the organizational hierarchy of the Games, the city will certainly make significant improvements.”
What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?
The article references green Olympic movement in previous Olympic games and examine how Beijing Olympic Game comply with the Green Olympic theme. It references specific measures, which was proposed in Beijing Olympic Action Plan to illustrate how they address the environmental problems and improve the environmental condition.
How (if at all) are health disparities or other equity issues addressed in the article or report?
The paper states that “Olympic Green” will use up large amount of groundwater therefore very likely to intensify the existing water shortage. I think the water shortage may affect rural and agricultural area more than Beijing. In addition, moving factories out of the city may improve air quality in the capital but will probably threaten the environment of the surrounding area.
Where has this article or report been referenced or discussed? (In some journals, you can see this in a sidebar.)
Green Olympics, green legacies? An exploration of the environmental legacies of the Olympic Games International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2013) 48 (4): 485-504
Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?
Nearly half of the citation the paper used is from Beijing Olympic Action Plan. Another big amount of citation is about examining emerging green Olympic concept. I think the article is produced from majorly literature review and author’s previous experience on environmental law and politics.
What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of how air pollution science has been produced and used in governance and education in different settings?
I follow up on Beijing solution to the water shortage. I find out that currently 81% water Beijing consumes comes from Hebei Province. This partly contributed to large economic development difference between Beijing and its surround area in Hebei Province. In 2005, the Asia Development Bank report first proposed the concept of “Poverty belt around Beijing and Tianjin”(环京津贫困带). In the region, there are 2.72 million poverty population with less than 625 CNY(100 USD) annual income in 2005. Beijing’s need for better air quality and water source leads to restriction on natural resources utilization and industrial and agricultural production in its surrounding area.
How the literature supports/opposes what you knew about 2008 Beijing Olympics?
I thought Beijing voluntarily put forward the theme of Green Olympics. However, the article suggests that the impetus to Beijing’s decision to make sustainable development a major component of the Olympic bid was rather a reaction to losing the desired 2000 Olympic Games to Sydney, Australia.
How the literature could be useful in assessing air quality management during the 2008 Beijing Olympics?
The literature provides detailed description of the action plan and evaluate the possible failing and shortcomings of the measurements that are proposed by the plan.