Title	Outlook for China’s Environment? : What do the Environmental Kuznets Curve and the Experiences of Other East Asian Countries Tell Us
Creator	Harrell, Stevan
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Centre for Chinese Research; University of British Columbia. Department of History
Date Issued	2017-11-16
Description	I use the imperfect but useful concept of the Environmental Kuznets Curve to analyze the prospects for solving the environmental problems now facing China. The talk uses a wide range of historical statistics to classify these problems according to a heuristic “solvability index” based on the biophysical and sociopolitical tractability of these problems, as well as on the histories of how they have been addressed in countries that have faced them earlier: Japan, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea. In doing so, I will also present a partial critique of the Environmental Kuznets Curve while affirming its limited utility as a heuristic device.
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2018-05-16
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0366868
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/65925
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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