Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China: Hong Kong in Global Context

ISBN-13: 9781447305071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 304 str.

Paul G Harris

Opis

This text asks to what extent the norm of sustainable development has been and can be realised in practice using a case study of Hong Kong. The authors seek to identify both barriers to achieving sustainable development and potential resources that might help to carry a sustainability agenda forward in the future.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part One: Conceptions of sustainable development: Conceptualising sustainable development; Origins and critiques of sustainable development; Implementing sustainable development; Part Two: Contexts for sustainable development in China's world city: Geography and population; History and development; Government institutions and policy priorities; Consumption and a city's environmental footprint; Part Three: Challenges of sustainable development: Air; Water; Energy and climate change; Transportation; Environmental spaces; Conclusion.