This book is particularly concerned with Chinäs path to green development and how it can be
understood exploring questions such as how the goal of Chinese-led green development can be
achieved. The book provides systematic explanations of the theory of green development
exploring its background its theoretical basis the areas it covers the stages it encompasses
and the constraining and favorable factors involved. We see how humankind is at a period of
transition from the traditional black industrial civilization to a modern green ecological
civilization. The author gives a profound critique of the traditional Western model of
development provides a comprehensive analysis of the crisis and the opportunities presented by
green development and depicts the grand goal of green modernization in a creative bold
forward-looking manner. A three-step strategy to design and promote green development is
proposed. Readers will discover why China must become an innovator practitioner and leader of
green development and how green planning is an important means to establish green development.
The book explores how local governments can become green innovation practitioners and how
enterprises can become the main arena of green development. This book is a creative and
innovative work that will appeal to scholars interested in the long-term development of
humankind in general and China in particular. It also serves well as a green development
textbook presenting related scientific knowledge and important information for decision-making
in a concise easy-to-understand form.
