Keywords:
social aspects of sustainability
;
industrial ecosystems
;
low carbon development
;
circular economy
;
sustainability indicator
;
sustainability assessment
;
green metric
;
resource efficiency
;
sustainable livelihood
;
enabling technologies for sustainability
;
society-environment system
;
regional governance
Description / Table of Contents:
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 largesteconomy 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 addressingthe global challenges such as climate change, resources scary and human beings well-fare; therefore, weneed to have deeper understandings into China’s way to sustainability at very different levels, bothspatially and structurally, concerns ranging from generating sustainable household livelihoods to globalclimate change, from developing technological applications to generate institutional changes. In thisspirit, 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.
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 318 Seiten)
Edition:
Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Sustainability
ISBN:
9783038421146
URL:
http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/159
Language:
English
