TY  - BOOK
AU  - Song, Ligang
AU  - Woo, Wing Thye
AB  - China’s Dilemma—Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change examines the challenges China will have to confront in order to maintain rapid growth while coping with the global financial turbulence, some rising socially destabilising tensions such as income inequality, an over-exploited environment and the long-term pressures of global warming. China’s Dilemma discusses key questions that will have an impact on China’s growth path and offers some in-depth analyses as to how China could confront these challenges. The authors address the effect of the global credit crunch and financial shocks on China’s economic growth; China’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and emissions reduction schemes; the environmental consequences of foreign direct investment in China; the relationship between air pollution and mortality; the effect of climate change on agricultural output; the coal industry’s compliance with tougher regulations; and the constraints water shortages may impose on China’s economy. It also emphasises the importance of managing the rising demand for energy to moderate oil price increases and placating domestic and international concerns about global warming.    In the thirty years since China started on the path of reform, it has emerged as one of the largest and most dynamic economies in the world. This carries with it the responsibility to balance the requirements of key industries that are driving its development with the need to ensure that its growth is both equitable and sustainable. China’s Dilemma highlights key lessons learned from the past thirty years of reform in order to pave the way for balanced and sustained growth in the future.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_458876
ID  - OAPEN ID: 458876
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 430819042
KW  - economic conditions
KW  - economic development
KW  - climate changes
KW  - environmental conditions
KW  - china
KW  - Coal
KW  - Foreign direct investment
KW  - Greenhouse gas
KW  - Gross domestic product
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b16bb335-d5e3-474d-a7e9-ffccb1bd6a14/458876.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33795
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2008
TI  - China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Changenull
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