Sustainability in China : Bridging Global Knowledge with Local Action / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Other Title:

Sustainability in China

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2015.

Summary:

Klappentext: 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.

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