Institutional constraints on China's transition to sustainability Online publication date: Wed, 20-Aug-2008
by Yang Chen, Cleber Dutra, Richard Sanders
International Journal of Green Economics (IJGE), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2008
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.
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