This book looks into the increasing conflict between the demand of economic growth and the already fragile ecological system condition in China. The prolonged urbanization process has escalated the erosion of natural environments and is increasing energy consumption. China's role as a "world plant" is also demanding more and more resource supply as well as energy consumption. This book argues that to correctly respond to these emerging issues, apart from upgrading industry and improves environmental protection techniques, China needs to establish an "ecological civilization" that provides an ideological basis for the construction of a green low-carbon model of economic growth.

Autorentext

Jiahua Pan, researcher, secretary-general and deputy director of Sustainable Development-General Research Center, doctoral supervisor. Pan graduated from Cambridge University as PhD. Pan's research fields include: environmental economics, economics of global change and the world economy of sustainable development issues. He hosted or participated in a number of research projects, and published more than 100 papers, a number of monographs etc. at Journals domestically and abroad. The representative works are Socio-economic Impact of Mitigation of Climate Change Report (2001 Cambridge University Press), Economic Analysis of the Sustainable Development Way (1996 China Renmin University Press), etc.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Fragile Ecology and Dream of beautiful China.- Procession and Challenge of Industrialization.- Characteristic and Goal of Urbanization.- Demand for Resources and the Environment of World Factory.- Security Association of Natural Resources.- Practice of Ecological Civilization.- Performance and Challenges of Green Carbon.- Outlook of Ecological China.