Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2023.2192088
Xu Jiangmin
Abstract This paper establishes a theoretical framework to study the fundamental changes in the concept and mechanism of China’s ecosystem protection under the paradigm of ecological civilization, and its major implications for global sustainable development. We first examine the damage to the ecosystem of the standard economic growth model, and provide empirical evidence that the traditional ecosystem protection paradigm based on the concept of industrial civilization has been unable to curb serious ecological degradation on a global scale. We then build a new theoretical model to reveal China’s new ecosystem protection paradigm based on the concept of ecological civilization, and analyze how it forms a mutually beneficial relationship with economic development by changing the content and mechanism of economic growth. Furthermore, we conduct an empirical analysis of the paradigm shift of China’s ecosystem protection and show that there is a significant synergy between China’s ecological conservation and economic development under the new paradigm. Finally, we use a game theory model to reveal the significant implications of China’s new ecosystem conservation paradigm for global ecological protection, especially for the realization of the expected goals of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2023.2192080
Xiaojuan Jiang
Abstract Digital technology has significantly facilitated the development of the cultural industry, and the cultural industry has also become one of the most important fields to which digital technology is applied. Conducting an analysis of how digital technology empowers consumers, creators, producers, social interaction and cultural communication can help us understand how it has improved the efficiency of the cultural industry, propelling digital contents into becoming the mainstay of the cultural industry and making digital communication the principal channel of cultural transmission. Digital technology has reshaped the structure of the cultural industry, leading to marked changes in the structure of cultural consumption, cultural production, the cultural market, and the proportion of domestic to foreign culture. However, whether this powerful digital technology will result in impressive technological results but lackluster cultural content remains a question. In fact, creative people’s pursuit of cultural content and consumers’ desire for such content will constantly give rise to outstanding cultural works with rich connotations and lasting influence in the digital era. The integration of digitization and technology can not only foster an open cultural plain filled with diverse and vibrant cultures, but can also create cultural peaks that will exhibit profound thought and superb artistic expression.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2023.2192089
Yang Mian, Xie Zeyu, Ye Chusheng
Abstract Poverty-stricken areas in China have the dual task of alleviating poverty and safeguarding national ecological security. Based on statistical surveys and satellite remote sensing data, we construct a staggered difference-in-difference model to empirically analyze the dual impact of poverty alleviation on the economic development and eco-environment of poverty-stricken areas. This study also examines viable pathways for economic development in poor areas in the context of ecological conservation. The results show that the poverty eradication campaign under the leadership of the Communist Party of China has significantly improved the rate of economic growth in poverty-stricken areas while also significantly improving the quality of the local eco-environment. Further analysis shows that ecological projects and ecological compensation make the greatest contribution to promoting the conversion of ecological resources into economic output in poverty-stricken areas. China’s successful experience in green poverty alleviation can not only provide important policy enlightenment for the nation’s continuation of its comprehensive revitalization drive in rural areas, but also provide new options for other developing countries to achieve their green take-off.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2023.2192094
Zhuo Min, Pan Liu, Zheng Chongyang
Abstract The Chinese government’s “dual carbon” commitment to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in September 2020 indicates that China will promote green economy transition and achieve high-quality growth in line with the New Development Concept. Definitely, both China’s economic and financial development will undergo a paradigm shift. This paper reviews the evolution of global finance’s role in supporting environmental governance, climate change and sustainable development, and proposes that the time has come to develop zero-carbon finance which should be closely aligned with the “net-zero emissions” requirement for achieving the global temperature target of the Paris Agreement. While the current policy frameworks for zero-carbon finance in major Western countries are useful references, they also have limitations. In order to build a Chinese-style zero-carbon financial system, China should integrate the experience of other countries and leverage both institutional advantages and green finance practices of own to the fullest extent possible. This paper goes into further detail about the concept of building a zero-carbon financial macro-management framework and a composite ecology of the zero-carbon financial market, and puts forward policy recommendations. The Chinese-style zero-carbon finance solution will also contribute to global carbon neutrality by enabling China to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible and providing countries with China’s solution as reference.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2023.2192090
Weiying Ping, Mao Yue, Zhu Qi, Shu Hao
Abstract The basis of green development is the sustainable development of enterprises, and the core of enterprises’ sustainable development is the transformation of business models through the reconstruction of corporate value. Under the paradigm of ecological civilization, the concept of ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) is becoming an important force behind corporate value reconstruction, guiding enterprises to innovate business models in the direction of sustainability. Based on the idea of the dimensions of the “shareholder channel-industrial chain channel-consumer channel,” this paper builds up a theoretical framework to interpret how ESG creates corporate value through the shareholder channel, the industrial chain channel, and the consumer channel, and provides empirical tests. We find that: first, the sustainable transformation of shareholder preferences is the center for ESG’s creation of corporate value; second, ESG performance helps reduce the transaction costs between upstream and downstream enterprises in industrial chains; and third, differences in ESG products create differentiated value for consumers. This study reveals the transformation of the direction and mode of corporate value creation in the course of green transition and provides micro-evidence of enterprises’ transition toward ESG goals in the Chinese context.
摘要绿色发展的基础是企业的可持续发展，企业可持续发展的核心是通过企业价值的重建实现商业模式的转变。在生态文明范式下，ESG（Environmental，Social and Corporate Governance，环境、社会和公司治理）理念正成为企业价值重建背后的重要力量，引导企业朝着可持续发展的方向创新商业模式。基于“股东渠道-产业链渠道-消费者渠道”维度的思想，本文构建了一个理论框架来解释ESG如何通过股东渠道、产业链渠道和消费者渠道创造企业价值，并进行了实证检验。我们发现：首先，股东偏好的可持续转变是ESG创造企业价值的中心；其次，ESG绩效有助于降低产业链上下游企业之间的交易成本；第三，ESG产品的差异为消费者创造了差异化的价值。本研究揭示了绿色转型过程中企业价值创造方向和模式的转变，为中国背景下企业向ESG目标转型提供了微观证据。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2023.2192086
Yongsheng Zhang
Abstract This study investigates the sustainability implications of the theoretical models of industrialization and urbanization pioneered by Dixit and Stiglitz 1 so to open the theoretical “black box” of the unsustainability of the traditional industrialization mode, and shows how to reshape the relationship between the environment and development under the paradigm of ecological civilization. It finds that the theoretical models that “perfectly” simulate the traditional industrialization mode all have the implicit consequence of environmental unsustainability. Nonetheless, this limitation is not due to the problems of the models themselves but is more a result of the limitations of the traditional developmental and neoclassical economics paradigms of the industrial era. Therefore, the consequences of unsustainability cannot simply be avoided through external policies such as technological progress and environmental regulations, nor can they be prevented by simply adjusting some parameters in these theoretical models. Instead, a shift is required in both the developmental and the economics paradigms formed in the traditional industrial era. From an ecological civilization perspective, this study rethinks the basic issues of economics along the two lines of the ends (what) and the means (how) of development; briefly reviews the history of economic thought; and uses a conceptual framework to reorganize the relevant intellectual profundities that are neglected in standard neoclassical economics. The study further formalizes the conceptual framework in a general form model and shows how a paradigm shift in development could shift the trade-offs from the multiple goals of the economy, the environment, and well-being in the traditional industrial era to mutual reinforcement in eco-civilization.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2022.2166292
Cui Guanghui, Guo Benyu
Abstract In examining the historical changes in cognitive psychology from 1895 to 1949, it is necessary to transform cognitive psychology into cognitive practice. In the late Qing and early Republic era (1895-1919), cognitive practice mainly appeared as the cognition of the sick at heart. Against the background of the late Qing importation of Western learning aimed at securing national salvation, the intellectual class, represented by Tan Sitong, hastily dressed the wound to the traditional Chinese learning of Heaven and man inflicted by late nineteenth century scientific knowledge from Europe and America. They regarded cognition as the understanding gained in the practice of self-cultivation, as affording man a spiritual resting place between Heaven and Earth. By the time of the Republic of China (1920-1949), the main form of cognitive practice had become ghostly cognition. Under the banner of saving the country by means of science, higher education researchers, represented by Lu Zhiwei, explored cognition with the help of such intermediaries as physiological mechanisms and language structure. Men could easily become ghosts trapped in intermediaries when they plunged into the conceptual world in search of truth, as their cognitive practice evolved into the conceptual grasp of ghosts. This ghostly cognition continued into later information processing psychology and was disseminated among the mass of the public. A deeper level of the cognition of the sick at heart remains for future study, on the lengthy road home.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2022.2166284
Junren Wan
Abstract The multiple images of modernity are used here to put forward and corroborate the possibility of the genesis of multiple modern civilizations and their very modernity while confirming the prior existence of modern Western civilization. In examining the complexity, inner tensions and contemporary predicaments appearing in the formation and evolution of earlier Western modernity, this paper reveals the basic mechanisms of modernity and the various possible approaches to it, that is, the fact that there are more possibilities for modernity other than the Western one. Economic globalization is the first step and the only pathway towards the modernity goals of human society, and any deglobalization or antiglobalization will hinder or check the progress of human society towards the ideal goal of modernity. History and the real-world economy demonstrate that “building a community with a shared future for mankind” is so far a more suitable and more explanatory guiding concept for seeking and approaching the human ideal of modernity; it surpasses existing concepts such as “ecumenicalism,” “cosmopolitanism,” and “globalism,” and is the latest understanding of the modernity of human society in contemporary China.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02529203.2022.2166297
Yu Feng, Xun Liying, Peng Kaiping
Abstract The absence of anthropology from cognitive science may be related to the fact that the Western-dominated cognitive approach is not human-centered. From an anthropological perspective, we propose a possible social cognitive model—the human-centered social cognitive chain. It is a theory of the human cognitive process that includes two phenomena— anthropomorphism and dehumanization; has two directions—upward and downward; involves two dimensions—morality and competence; and produces two results—cuteness and coolness. It is a way for humans to understand the whole world with themselves as starting point and end point, governing social cognition. The human-centered social cognitive chain involves gods, humans, animals, plants, artificial objects, pure objects, and even abstract concepts, on the basis of which upward and downward anthropomorphism and upward and downward dehumanization arise. The existing research on anthropomorphism and dehumanization is slightly biased in that it only emphasizes upward anthropomorphism and downward dehumanization. Theoretically, both anthropomorphism and dehumanization should be two-stage processes based on essentialism, but humans engaged in cognition tend to adopt a dimensional view that simplifies them. The morality-competence dichotomy reflects this tendency and results in the cognitive outcomes of cuteness, where morality is valued higher than competence and coolness, where competence is valued higher than morality. The human-centered social cognitive chain is the paradigm by which humans understand themselves, their culture, and the world.
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