Research On Expressing Technique Of Environmental Policies In Chinese Urban Comprehensive Plan Text Documents

Comprehensive Plan Text Documents (CPTDs, Zong Ti Gui Hua Wen Ben) function as a substantial carrier of planning decision information. Various planning policies have to depend on qualified CPTDs in implementation. Thus, CPTDs'ability of expressing planning policies determines the effectiveness of comprehensive plans. Meanwhile, China's urbanization, under the background of"Environmental Revolution", is surrounded by increasing environmental crisis. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss expressing technique and skills of environmental policies in Chinese CPTDs.To summarize the expressing technique efficiently, the following issues must be responded to. Firstly, what are the expressing stances of CPTDs? Secondly, what is the expressing pattern of CPTDs? Thirdly, how does a CPTD express environmental policies?A CPTD is considered as a public policy statement, which implies three stances for its expressing urban planning policies. They include clarification of governemnts'actions, integration of various public policies, and establishment of contractual relation. For implementing these stances, a CPTD has to address six questions related with governments'actions, to combine public polices on"internal"and"external"dimensions, to define contractual relations on"governments-citizens"and"agencies-agencies"levels. These knowledge guides our research on the expressing technique of environmental policies in CPTDs.Five structural elements, Vision, Goals and Objectives, Measures, as well as Links, should be included in CPTDs to express urban planning policies effectively under China's situation. This viewpoint is inferred from both of the feature of Chinese urban planning practice and experiences of U.S.. The five elements and four organizing principles consist of the master expressing model of CPTDs of China, which forms the research basis for further discussing the expressing technique of environmental polices in CPTDs.Based on the master expressing model, this study deliberates the expressing methodologies for environemental goals and objectives, environmental measures, and environmental implementation plan. Each of them could be epitomized an expressing"formula", an expressing"model"as well as a set of pertinent expressing contents. The expressing technique and skills of environmental policies in Chinese CPTDs, herewith, could be summarized as an operation framework with four expressing models derived from three expressing stances.