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Dear Colleagues, "Greener Management International" Issue 50 is a special theme issue: CHINA THE CHALLENGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMEENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Edited by Betty J. Diener, Barry University, USA, and Anna Lee Rowe, Curtin University, Australia ********************************* A limited number of individual copies of this special issue are available for purchase at the price of £25.00/$45.00/EUR37.50 Postage worldwide is gratis. To place an order, to view all paper abstracts, or to view the " Introduction" by Betty J. Diener and Anna Lee Rowe please visit the Greenleaf website at: http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com click on ‘What’s New’ or the ‘Greener Management International’ home page in the ‘Journals’ menu You can also SUBSCRIBE to the journal at a discount of between 30% and 50% All papers published since 1999 are available as PDF downloads. ********************************* This Special Issue of ‘Greener Management International’ provides an overview of the interplay between China’s enormous economic growth and the impact of that on its need for environmental sustainability. The 2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, coupled with Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and the Stern review, have propelled global warming issues into the foreground. And China has a major role The People’s Republic of China is in the process of growing from a staggering 1.3 billion to 2 billion inhabitants while its economy, which was estimated at $1.9 trillion in 2004 continues to grow at 9–10% a year, as it has for the last 25 years. In 2004, China was the world’s sixth largest economy. As China switches to a market economy and modernises its inefficient energy-dependent and heavily polluting state-run industries, the country will face major challenges in providing an increasing number of its citizens with a stable society and an economy featuring adequate employment, housing, food and transportation. The challenge to China presents a classic case of poverty reduction through industrialisation, with enormous balancing between environmental degradation, increases in living standards and long-term growth projections. Yet China literally cannot afford to slow the growth of its economy. Instead, it needs to significantly grow its economy to generate funds to update and retrofit its technologies and ageing plants, to create jobs to absorb the urban unemployed, to provide stronger urban infrastructure, institute banking reforms and distribute the new wealth more equitably. The impetus for undertaking this special issue review of China’s environmental challenges has never been more critical, given the pace at which this economic power is devouring global natural resources to satisfy its phenomenal development. China will play a major role in determining the future of the global environment. The unique challenge then will be to enable China’s economic development and its adoption of sustainable development to progress in harmonious balance, which other nations can learn from and emulate. This special issue identifies some of the barriers to China’s sustainable development and some ways of overcoming those barriers, and reports on progress to date in the areas of economic planning, energy efficiency, transportation and banking. ********************************* Table of Contents * Editorial * Introduction Betty J. Diener, Barry University, USA, and Anna Lee Rowe, Curtin University, Australia * Towards a Circular Economy: Progress and Challenges Nonita T. Yap, University of Guelph, Canada * Energy Efficiency in China: The Business Case for Mining an Untapped Resource Anne Arquit Niederberger, A + B International, USA, Conrad U. Brunner, A + B International, Switzerland, Kejun Jiang, National Development and Reform Commission/Energy Research Institute, China, and Ying Chen, China Energy Conservation Investment Corporat * Improving Energy Efficiency in Asia’s Industry Sophie Punte, United Nations Environment Programme, Thailand, Peter Repinski, United Nations Environment Programme, USA, and Sara Gabrielsson, Lund University, Sweden * Sustainable Transportation Strategies: China Paul Shrivastava, Bucknell University, USA * Can China Reduce CO2 Emissions from Cars? Paul Nieuwenhuis and Clovis Zapata, Cardiff University, UK * The Yunnan Environment Development Programme: Managing Change and Innovation in International Development Andrew McNab, Scott Wilson Ltd, UK * Environmental Challenges and Opportunities for Banks in China: The Case of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Tareq Emtairah and Lars Hansson, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Sweden, and Guo Hao, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ********************************* A limited number of individual copies of this special issue are available for purchase at the price of £25.00/$45.00/EUR37.50. Postage worldwide is gratis. To place an order, to view all paper abstracts, or to view the " Introduction" by Betty J. 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