Ecological Discourse and Ecological risk in China

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dc.contributor.author	Golden Sean
dc.title	Ecological Discourse and Ecological risk in China
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dc.description.abstract	This paper will outline three sources of ecological discourse for the defence of ‘ecological civilisation’ and ‘ecological Marxism’ and the promotion of an ‘ecologically civilised society’. in response to ecological risk in China: the official, governmental ecological discourse (official think tanks, ministry documents); the formal academic, nongovernmental ecological discourse (academics, advisers, opinion-makers); the informal nongovernmental or emergent civil society ecological discourse (social movements, protest movements, critical analysis of risk and governmental policy). The working hypothesis of this study is that, even though awareness of ecological risk and the need for an ‘ecologically civilised society’ is high among the emergent civil society, the ministry advisers and policy-makers, and the opinion-makers, the management of ecological risk is hampered by contradictory priorities and criteria in the meritocratic evaluation of performance by government and Party officials, on the one hand, and the need to generate wealth, on the other. This debate is analogous to the debate on efficiency (the generation of wealth) and equity (the redistribution of wealth) in the field of economic planning and performance, and a symptom of the increasing complexity of competing and contradictory priorities as the nature of Chinese modernisation evolves.
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dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-12-19
dc.dateAccepted	2017-02-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-01-23
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dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-190-4/SR-12-1
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dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-190-4
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dc.subject	Chinese ecological discourse, ecological Marxism,
dc.subject	Chinese ecological discourse, ecological Marxism,

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Ecological Discourse and Ecological risk in China

Sean Golden Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Espanya

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This paper will outline three sources of ecological discourse for the defence of ‘ecological civilisation’ and ‘ecological Marxism’ and the promotion of an ‘ecologically civilised society’. in response to ecological risk in China: the official, governmental ecological discourse (official think tanks, ministry documents); the formal academic, nongovernmental ecological discourse (academics, advisers, opinion-makers); the informal nongovernmental or emergent civil society ecological discourse (social movements, protest movements, critical analysis of risk and governmental policy). The working hypothesis of this study is that, even though awareness of ecological risk and the need for an ‘ecologically civilised society’ is high among the emergent civil society, the ministry advisers and policy-makers, and the opinion-makers, the management of ecological risk is hampered by contradictory priorities and criteria in the meritocratic evaluation of performance by government and Party officials, on the one hand, and the need to generate wealth, on the other. This debate is analogous to the debate on efficiency (the generation of wealth) and equity (the redistribution of wealth) in the field of economic planning and performance, and a symptom of the increasing complexity of competing and contradictory priorities as the nature of Chinese modernisation evolves.

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Dec. 19, 2017

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Feb. 1, 2017

Submitted

Jan. 23, 2017

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978-88-6969-210-9

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978-88-6969-190-4

Keywords: Chinese ecological discourse, ecological Marxism,

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