China's Eco-city Construction

✍ Scribed by Jingyuan Li, Tongjin Yang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 244
• Series: Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces the concept of Eco-civilization, highlights the construction and development of eco-cities in China, and assesses the achievements and shortcomings of China’s eco-city construction projects. As both China and Western countries face an impending ecological crisis, responding to that crisis is a common challenge for all human beings. There is an overwhelming consensus among Chinese scholars that in order to successfully address the ecological crisis successfully we must establish an eco-civilization, and one important step toward accomplishing that goal is to plan and construct eco-cities.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ecological Crisis, Eco-civilization, and Eco-cities....Pages 3-47
Report on China’s Eco-City Development....Pages 49-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Environmentally Friendly Cities....Pages 107-133
Resource-Conserving Cities....Pages 135-153
Green Industrial Cities....Pages 155-168
Circular Economy Cities....Pages 169-188
Leisure Landscape Cities....Pages 189-205
Green Consumption Cities....Pages 207-227
Back Matter....Pages 229-230

✦ Subjects

Environmental Economics; Sustainable Development; Development Economics