Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action

China’s road to sustainability has attracted global attention. Since the “Reform & Opening Up” policy, China’s rapid pace of both urbanization and industrialization has made its being the second largest economy but meantime a heavy environmental price has been paid over the past few decades for addr...

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description China’s road to sustainability has attracted global attention. Since the “Reform & Opening Up” policy, China’s rapid pace of both urbanization and industrialization has made its being the second largest economy but meantime a heavy environmental price has been paid over the past few decades for addressing the economic developmental target. Today, as the biggest developing country, China needs to take more responsibilities for constructing its local ecological-civilization society as well as for addressing the global challenges such as climate change, resources scary and human beings well-fare; therefore, we need to have deeper understandings into China’s way to sustainability at very different levels, both spatially and structurally, concerns ranging from generating sustainable household livelihoods to global climate change, from developing technological applications to generate institutional changes. In this spirit, this publication, “Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action” aims to investigate the intended and spontaneous issues concerning China’s road to sustainability in a combined top-down and bottom-up manner, linking international knowledge to local-based studies.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-603072024-03-30T02:52:45Z Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action GE1-350 enabling technologies for sustainability society-environment system sustainability assessment sustainability indicator low carbon development resource efficiency industrial ecosystems green metric social aspects of sustainability circular economy regional governance sustainable livelihood thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics China’s road to sustainability has attracted global attention. Since the “Reform & Opening Up” policy, China’s rapid pace of both urbanization and industrialization has made its being the second largest economy but meantime a heavy environmental price has been paid over the past few decades for addressing the economic developmental target. Today, as the biggest developing country, China needs to take more responsibilities for constructing its local ecological-civilization society as well as for addressing the global challenges such as climate change, resources scary and human beings well-fare; therefore, we need to have deeper understandings into China’s way to sustainability at very different levels, both spatially and structurally, concerns ranging from generating sustainable household livelihoods to global climate change, from developing technological applications to generate institutional changes. In this spirit, this publication, “Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action” aims to investigate the intended and spontaneous issues concerning China’s road to sustainability in a combined top-down and bottom-up manner, linking international knowledge to local-based studies. 2021-02-12T04:56:34Z 2021-02-12T04:56:34Z 2016-05-09 15:17:13 2015 book 19006 9783038421139 9783038421146 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/60307 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International http://www.amazon.com/Sustainability-China-Bridging-Global-Knowledge/dp/3038421138/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462799511&sr=1-1&keywords=Sustainability+in+China%3A+Bridging+Global+Knowledge+with+Local+Action http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/159 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783038421139 9783038421146 332 open access
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sustainability assessment
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industrial ecosystems
green metric
social aspects of sustainability
circular economy
regional governance
sustainable livelihood
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Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action
title Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action
title_full Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action
title_fullStr Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action
title_short Sustainability in China: Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action
title_sort sustainability in china bridging global knowledge with local action
topic GE1-350
enabling technologies for sustainability
society-environment system
sustainability assessment
sustainability indicator
low carbon development
resource efficiency
industrial ecosystems
green metric
social aspects of sustainability
circular economy
regional governance
sustainable livelihood
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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enabling technologies for sustainability
society-environment system
sustainability assessment
sustainability indicator
low carbon development
resource efficiency
industrial ecosystems
green metric
social aspects of sustainability
circular economy
regional governance
sustainable livelihood
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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