Dear Colleagues,
"Greener Management International" Issue 50 is a special theme issue:
CHINA
THE CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMEENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Edited by Betty J. Diener, Barry University, USA, and Anna Lee Rowe,
Curtin University, Australia
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This Special Issue of ‘Greener Management International’ provides an
overview of the interplay between China’s enormous economic growth and
the impact of that on its need for environmental sustainability. The
2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, coupled
with Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and the Stern review, have
propelled global warming issues into the foreground. And China has a
major role
The People’s Republic of China is in the process of growing from a
staggering 1.3 billion to 2 billion inhabitants while its economy,
which was estimated at $1.9 trillion in 2004 continues to grow at 9–10%
a year, as it has for the last 25 years. In 2004, China was the world’s
sixth largest economy.
As China switches to a market economy and modernises its inefficient
energy-dependent and heavily polluting state-run industries, the
country will face major challenges in providing an increasing number of
its citizens with a stable society and an economy featuring adequate
employment, housing, food and transportation. The challenge to China
presents a classic case of poverty reduction through industrialisation,
with enormous balancing between environmental degradation, increases in
living standards and long-term growth projections. Yet China literally
cannot afford to slow the growth of its economy. Instead, it needs to
significantly grow its economy to generate funds to update and retrofit
its technologies and ageing plants, to create jobs to absorb the urban
unemployed, to provide stronger urban infrastructure, institute banking
reforms and distribute the new wealth more equitably. The impetus for
undertaking this special issue review of China’s environmental
challenges has never been more critical, given the pace at which this
economic power is devouring global natural resources to satisfy its
phenomenal development.
China will play a major role in determining the future of the global
environment. The unique challenge then will be to enable China’s
economic development and its adoption of sustainable development to
progress in harmonious balance, which other nations can learn from and
emulate. This special issue identifies some of the barriers to China’s
sustainable development and some ways of overcoming those barriers, and
reports on progress to date in the areas of economic planning, energy
efficiency, transportation and banking.
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Table of Contents
* Editorial
* Introduction
Betty J. Diener, Barry University, USA, and Anna Lee Rowe, Curtin
University, Australia
* Towards a Circular Economy: Progress and Challenges
Nonita T. Yap, University of Guelph, Canada
* Energy Efficiency in China: The Business Case for Mining an Untapped
Resource
Anne Arquit Niederberger, A + B International, USA, Conrad U. Brunner,
A + B International, Switzerland, Kejun Jiang, National Development and
Reform Commission/Energy Research Institute, China, and Ying Chen,
China Energy Conservation Investment Corporat
* Improving Energy Efficiency in Asia’s Industry
Sophie Punte, United Nations Environment Programme, Thailand, Peter
Repinski, United Nations Environment Programme, USA, and Sara
Gabrielsson, Lund University, Sweden
* Sustainable Transportation Strategies: China
Paul Shrivastava, Bucknell University, USA
* Can China Reduce CO2 Emissions from Cars?
Paul Nieuwenhuis and Clovis Zapata, Cardiff University, UK
* The Yunnan Environment Development Programme: Managing Change and
Innovation in International Development
Andrew McNab, Scott Wilson Ltd, UK
* Environmental Challenges and Opportunities for Banks in China: The
Case of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Tareq Emtairah and Lars Hansson, International Institute for Industrial
Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden, and Guo Hao,
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
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available for purchase at the price of £25.00/$45.00/EUR37.50. Postage
worldwide is gratis.
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Introduction" by Betty J. Diener and Anna Lee Rowe please visit the
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