China's Eco-city Construction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. The Development of Eco-cities in China: Theories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Ecological Crisis, Eco-civilization, and Eco-cities

      • Tongjin Yang, Weiping Sun, Juke Liu, Dingjun Wang, Gang Zeng

      Pages 3-47

   3. Report on China’s Eco-City Development

      • Weiping Sun, Juke Liu, Dingjun Wang

      Pages 49-103

3. The Development of Eco-cities in China: Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Environmentally Friendly Cities

      • Guohua Chang

      Pages 107-133

   3. Resource-Conserving Cities

      • Lingfeng Kang, Youyi Zhao

      Pages 135-153

   4. Green Industrial Cities

      • Yongli Zhang, Jiaxing Lu

      Pages 155-168

   5. Circular Economy Cities

      • Guoquan Qian, Cuiyun Wang

      Pages 169-188

   6. Leisure Landscape Cities

      • Taichun Wang, Juheng Li

      Pages 189-205

   7. Green Consumption Cities

      • Tianpeng Gao, Yongzhen Wang

      Pages 207-227

4. Back Matter

   Pages 229-230

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This book introduces the concept of Eco-civilization, highlights the construction and development of eco-cities in China, and assesses the achievements and shortcomings of China’s eco-city construction projects. As both China and Western countries face an impending ecological crisis, responding to that crisis is a common challenge for all human beings. There is an overwhelming consensus among Chinese scholars that in order to successfully address the ecological crisis successfully we must establish an eco-civilization, and one important step toward accomplishing that goal is to plan and construct eco-cities.

• Circular Economy
• Eco-city Construction
• Eco-civilization
• Ecological Crisis
• Guidelines for Eco-city
• Metric of Eco-city

• Center for Culture Study, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

  Jingyuan Li

• School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, Beijing, China

  Tongjin Yang

Professor Jingyuan Li is the director of Center for Culture Study, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and the previous president of Institute of Philosophy, CASS. His research field includes Marist philosophy, epistemology, and practical philosophy. He has published nearly ten books, including A Study of Pre-historical Epistemology, Marist Philosophy and Modern Times, and An Introduction for Mao’s Methodology. Professor Tongjin Yang is the director of Center for Applied Ethics, CASS. His research field includes environmental ethics, global justice and environmental philosophy. He has published two books: Toward a Deep Environmentalism, and Environmental Ethics: Global Discourse, Chinese Perspective.

Policies and ethics