Escaping the resource curse in China

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Shixiong Cao ; Shurong Li ; Hua Ma ; Yutong Sun
• 关键词：Environmental degradation ; Kuznets trap ; Resource curse ; Regional gap ; Resource exploitation ; Unbalanced development strategy
• 刊名：AMBIO
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：February 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：44
• 期：1
• 页码：1-6
• 全文大小：856 KB
• 参考文献：1. Ash, R. 2006. The long-term outlook for economic reform in China: Resource constraints, inequalities and sustainability. / Asia Europe Journal 4: 177-96. CrossRef
  2. Asian Development Bank. 2012. / Toward an environmentally sustainable future: Country environmental analysis of the People’s Republic of China. Manila: Asian Development Bank Group.
  3. Boos, A., and K. Holm-Müller. 2012. A theoretical overview of the relationship between the resource curse and genuine savings as an indicator for “weak-sustainability. / Natural Resources Forum 36: 145-59. CrossRef
  4. Cao, S. 2010. Socioeconomic road in ecological restoration in China. / Environmental Science and Technology 44: 5328-329. CrossRef
  5. Cao, S. 2012. Why China’s approach to institutional change has begun to succeed. / Economic Modeling 29: 679-83. CrossRef
  6. Cao, S., Y. Lv, H. Zheng, and X. Wang, X. 2014. Challenges facing China’s unbalanced urbanization strategy. / Land Use Policy 33. DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.12.004 .
  7. China Daily. 2013. Beijing air pollution reaches dangerous levels. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-01/13/content_16110073.htm.
  8. China Environmental News Digest. 2007. Sandstorm from northern China to hit Taiwan today. http://china-environmental-news.blogspot.com/2007/04/sandstorm-from-northern-china-to-hit.html.
  9. China Statistics Bureau. 2013. / Statistical Yearbook of China. Beijing: China Statistics Press.
  10. Han, G., and S. Guo. 2004. Political economy of FDI and economic growth in China: a longitudinal test at provincial level. / The Journal of Chinese Political Science 9: 43-2 (in Chinese).
  11. Ji, K., J.R. Magnus, and W.D. Wang. 2014. Natural resources, institutional quality, and economic growth in China. / Environmental and Resource Economics 57: 323-43. CrossRef
  12. Kuznets, S. 1955. Economic growth and income inequality. / American Economic Review 45: 1-8.
  13. Li, M.Q., and I. Coxhead. 2011. Trade and inequality with limited labor mobility: theory and evidence from China. / Review of Development Economics 15: 48-5. CrossRef
  14. Liu, J., and Y. Wu. 2012. Water sustainability for China and beyond. / Science 337: 649-50. CrossRef
  15. Xinhuanet. 2011. Sand storm hits Shanghai. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/photo/2011-05/02/c_13855201_3.htm.
  16. Wei, L., and R.L. Qiu. 2007. Water eutrophication in China and the combating strategies. / Journal Chemical Technology and Biotechnology 82: 781-86. CrossRef
  17. Zhang, Q., X. Zhao, Y. Zhang, and L. Li. 2002. Preliminary study on sand-dust storm disaster and countermeasures in China. / Chinese Geographical Science 12: 9-3 (in Chinese).
  18. Zhang, X.B., X. Li, S.G. Fan, and X.P. Luo. 2008. Resource abundance and regional development in China. / Economics of Transition 16: 7-9. CrossRef
  19. Zheng, H., and S. Cao. 2011. The challenge to sustainable development in China revealed by “death villages- / Environmental Science and Technology 45: 9833-834. CrossRef
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1654-7209

文摘

Many societies face an income gap between rich regions with access to advanced technology and regions that are rich in natural resources but poorer in technology. This “resource curse-can lead to a Kuznets trap, in which economic inequalities between the rich and the poor increase during the process of socioeconomic development. This can also lead to depletion of natural resources, environmental degradation, social instability, and declining socioeconomic development. These problems will jeopardize China’s achievements if the current path continues to be pursued without intervention by the government to solve the problems. To mitigate the socioeconomic development gap between western and eastern China, the government implemented its Western Development Program in 2000. However, recent data suggest that this program has instead worsened the resource curse. Because each region has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, China must escape the resource curse by accounting for this difference; in western China, this can be done by improving education, promoting high-tech industry, adjusting its economic strategy to balance regional development, and seeking more sustainable approaches to socioeconomic development.