Institutional constraints on China's transition to sustainability

Yang Chen, Cleber Dutra and Richard Sanders

International Journal of Green Economics, 2008, vol. 2, issue 2, 135-152

Abstract: This paper analyses the institutional constraints on China's transition to sustainability. Through the investigation of the ecological dimension of the sustainability in China, we argue that there is a vacuum of social consensus and public understanding resulting from unbridled meritocracy and that this forms the key barrier to China's transition to sustainability. In our conclusion, we strongly propose a public debate in the form of dialogue among different classes and interest groups in Chinese society to contemplate a substantial paradigm shift from the transition to sustainable development to the transition to sustainability.

Keywords: China; sustainability; institutional constraints; sustainable development; ecology; green economics. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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