Abstract
During the past several decades, China has achieved dramatic economic growth and has been the second largest economy in the world. China has also been the biggest carbon emitter and one of the most air, soil, and water polluted and biodiversity degraded regions in the world. Even though Chinese people earn better quality of life and life expectancy, more and more people are suffering from much more diseases and losses because of environmental pollution and global warming, largely due to its massive resources-based growth model affecting China’s long-term sustainability, which has been questioned according to its performance in the fields of economic growth, environmental improvement, and social development. Today, rapid urbanization, pursuing affluent lifestyles and increased demand for resources and services are exerting increasing pressure on land, forest, sea, and natural resources in China and challenging sustainability at both national and international levels. Since 2012, a new green deal under the name of ecological civilization has been offered by the Chinese leadership. Therefore, resha** natural resource management has been taken as a key component for meeting the challenges of transitioning to sustainable development mode in China. In this chapter, a clear and comprehensive understanding of China’s natural resource consumption during the past decades are presented as well as the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts and temporal and spatial differences of China’s resource consumption are investigated. In addition, a systemic review presents the changes to the institutional system for natural resource management at the national level and provincial level, followed by the identification of key stakeholders in the governance system, and, then, some typical local practices are identified and presented aiming to illustrate the integration of resource management, sustainable development, and livelihood strategy. Finally, policy implications are proposed.
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China National Petroleum Corporation.
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China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation.
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China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
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NDRC, a ministry leveled agency in charge of planning issues for the whole country.
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Shanxi Provincial People’s Government, 2017
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Leadership Office of Coal Mine Corporation Merger and Coal-Resource Integration of Shanxi, 2009.
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Xue, B., Ren, W. (2021). Resha** Natural Resource Management in China. In: Thakur, B., Thakur, R.R., Chattopadhyay, S., Abhay, R.K. (eds) Resource Management, Sustainable Development and Governance. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85839-1_6
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