SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

S. G. Breslin
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S. G. Breslin: Department of Politics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, Postal: Department of Politics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Sustainable Development, 1996, vol. 4, issue 2, 103-108

Abstract: This paper is a response to the article by Wu and Flynn that appeared in Volume 3 of this journal in 1995. Wu and Flynn identified the major causes of environmental problems in China and then assessed the growth in environmental consciousness, planning and regulation in contemporary China. Although I believe that their assessment of most of the causes of China's current environmental problems were by and large correct, I feel that they have underestimated the importance of some of these problems. In doing so, they end up with a more positive assessment of China's (and therefore the world's) environmental future than myself. In particular, I will argue that they have underestimated the short-term legitimacy priorities of the party elites and the longer term consequences of the dispersal of central power in the post-Mao era.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1719(199608)4:2<103::AID-SD38>3.0.CO;2-K

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