Contemporary Construction of Ecological Civilization: From Ecological Crisis to Ecological Governance

2015 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fating YANG

Since the industrial revolution, people have adopted the linear development mode of “resting on the principal” to gain wealth through crazy plunder of nature despite severe pollution to the environment for human survival, which results in sharp conflict between man and nature. As ecological crisis arises, people begin to reflect on the industrial revolution profoundly. They start adopting the cycle development mode of “resting on the interest” and take active steps to build ecological civilization, which is not only a form of civilization but also a development concept. It breaks traditional views and ideas of “considering environment merely from the angle of environment”, “environment and development are mutually independent” and “environment and development are opposed to each other”, and it achieves a higher level of harmony between man and nature, resources and environment, as well as man and society. The construction of ecological civilization, as an important part of national governance, is the only way to solve the problem of ecological environment deterioration as well as to promote the transformation of ecological civilization.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 4080-4091
Author(s):  
Weili Zhang ◽  
Songjiang Wu

As the participants and stakeholders of rural ecological governance, the evaluation of farmers’ satisfaction plays an important role in improving the performance of government ecological governance. Based on the criteria of ecological civilization construction and customer satisfaction, this paper constructs an evaluation system of farmers’ ecological governance satisfaction, which includes 34 indicators. Factor analysis is used to classify indicators, and IPA model is used to analyze the ecological governance plates that affect satisfaction. The research shows that the comprehensive satisfaction of rural ecological governance farmers in four towns of Changde City, Hunan Province is 3.6, which is basically recognized by farmers. The factors that farmers’ demand is strong but does not meet the expectations are sewage treatment, chemical fertilizer and pesticide pollution treatment, ecological legal system implementation, government investment and other indicators. The evaluation section of restriction satisfaction mainly focuses on ecological environment, institutional culture and infrastructure, and finally puts forward suggestions from three aspects: ecological environment, infrastructure and farmers’ sense of participation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 915-918
Author(s):  
Dong Li ◽  
Bing Jun Kou

Book of Changes is one of the ancient and bright cultural treasures. Because of it, all previous dynasties scholars in successive dynasties have strong interests on the research of Book of Changes. Through the thought "Harmony between man and nature", "feeling concerned about the mulberry of bud" and "continuous reproduction breed in an endless succession " reflected in the book. This thesis is intended to research the harmonious coexistence between human and nature of thought, environmental protection and sustainable development, ecological occurrences and study with a view to correspond to today's serious ecological crisis, in order to provide intelligence support and theoretical support on protecting the ecological environment.


LITERA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-456
Author(s):  
Woro Januarti

The Industrial Revolution in the mid-nineteenth century had transformed the relationship between man and nature into one that was confused: man and nature were either balanced or mutually antagonistic. In China itself, since the “Great Leap Forward Movement,” “Cultural Revolution,” “Deng Xiaoping’s Open Politics” to date, has caused severe damage to nature. These have caused various kinds of public reactions, both from the public, academia, society, and writers. Deconstruction Wolf Totem anthropocentric view from an ecological perspective can show China’s culture, environmental conditions, government policies, the relation of human and natural, ecofeminism, eco-spiritualism, and anti-ecological thought. The method used in this study is descriptive interpretive in ecocritical studies. Ecocritical perspective on literary works is essential means to speaking out against anthropocentric domination and environmental damage. The analysis results show that the ecological damage narrative in Wolf Totem is used as a reinforcing motive to deconstruct the anthropocentric view of the people of China and Chinese government policy. Through the deconstruction of an anthropocentric perspective, efforts to repair environmental damage carried out. By changing the anthropocentric culture to become ecocentric, will achieve a green China, especially in the Xi Jinping era whose policies oriented towards Ecological Civilization (生态文明). Keywords: ecocritic, Chinese ecological literature, ecofeminism, eco-spiritualism, anti-ecology DEKONSTRUKSI PANDANGAN ANTROPOSENTERIK CHINA DALAM NOVEL WOLF TOTEM KARYA JIANG RONGSAbstrakRevolusi Industri pada pertengahan abad sembilanbelas telah merubah hubungan manusia dengan alam menjadi sebuah hubungan yang membingungkan: manusia dan alam menjadi baik dan seimbang atau saling bermusuhan. Di Tiongkok sendiri, sejak “Gerakan Lompatan Jauh ke Depan", “Revolusi Kebudayaan", “Politik Terbuka Deng Xiaoping" hingga saat ini, telah menyebabkan kerusakan alam yang parah. Hal ini menimbulkan berbagai macam reaksi publik, baik dari kalangan masyarakat, akademisi, hingga sastrawan. Mendekonstruksi pandangan entroposentris novel Wolf Totem dari perspektif ekologi dapat memperlihatkan budaya masyarakat, keadaan lingkungan, kebijakan pemerintah, hubungan manusia dan alam, serta pandangan ekofeminisme, ekospiritualisme dan pemikiran anti-ekologi di Tiongkok. Metode yang digunakan dalam studi ini adalah deskriptif interpretatif dalam perspektif studi ekokritik. Berdasarkan perspektif ekokritik, karya sastra menjadi sarana penting untuk bersuara terhadap dominasi entroposentris dan kerusakan lingkungan. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa narasi kerusakaan lingkungan dalam Wolf Totem digunakan sebagai motif penegas untuk mendekonstruksi kembali pandangan antroposentris budaya masyarakat Tiongkok dan kebijakan pemerintah Tiongkok. Melalui dekonstruksi pandangan antroposentris, upaya perbaikan kerusakan lingkungan dilakukan. Dengan merubah budaya antroposentris menjadi ekosentris, maka akan tercapai Tiongkok yang hijau apalagi di era Xi Jinping yang kebijakannya berorientasi pada Peradaban Ekologi (生态文明). Kata Kunci: ekokritik, sastra ekologi China, ekofeminsisme, eko-spiritualisme, anti-ekologi


2013 ◽  
Vol 807-809 ◽  
pp. 906-909
Author(s):  
Dong Li ◽  
Zhong Hai Qiu

"Unity of Man and Nature" is one of the main thoughts in Chinese traditional culture. Its core significance is mainly manifested in the understanding of the relationship between heaven and man. Based on the longitudinal review and brief analysis of the thought of "Unity of Man and Nature" in "Zhouyi", the Confucian culture, Taoist culture and Buddhist culture, we attempt to mix the ecological ethics idea into the thought of "Unity of Man and Nature"; tries to make this traditional culture exude a new brilliance so that it can cope with the serious ecological crisis, and provide intellectual support and theoretical support for the protection of the ecological environment.


Author(s):  
Wei JIANG ◽  
Haoran ZHANG

Traditional Chinese culture contains the thought of respecting nature and protecting the ecological environment, thus it is of theoretical and practical significance for the construction of ecological civilization in China. This paper uses textual analysis on the works from Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism to explain the cultural genes related to the harmonious development of man and nature, in addition to examining possibilities for adapting the cultural genes in the practice of ecological civilization construction. It concludes that by means of policy guidance and active adaptation, traditional Chinese culture can effectively realize its potential for ecological protection and be integrated into China’s ecological civilization construction.


2021 ◽  
pp. 209653112110127
Author(s):  
Yong Jiang ◽  
Beibei Zhang ◽  
Ying Zhao ◽  
Chuchu Zheng

Purpose: 2020 is the concluding year of the basic preschool education popularization policy in China and marks the beginning of China’s Education Modernization 2035. This study focuses on the top-level design and the prospect of the development plan of China’s preschool education toward 2035. Design/Approach/Methods: The research method adopted is expert interview. We interviewed 11 experts, including policymakers, educational administrators, scholars, and practitioners in the education. Findings: To develop China’s preschool education, we need to integrate macro-level, meso-level, and micro-level contents: focusing on public welfare as the development concept, furthering the reform of the educational system and mechanism, making quality improvement the plan’s key goal, and forming a new preschool education development mode with Chinese characteristics. Originality/Value: This study hopes to clarify the focus to have an impact on China’s preschool education toward 2035. It also aims to provide suggestions about preschool education development for other countries.


Author(s):  
N. Rogozhina

This article deals with the role of developing countries in strengthening the global ecological security, because the focus of environmental crisis has been shifting towards them. Taking into consideration the dynamics of their socio-economic and demographic changes, these countries will determine environmental situation in the world. Ecological crisis in developing countries is subjected to the industrial society formation that is accompanied by heavy demand on natural resources and pollution of environment. The author concludes that inevitable environmental costs of extensive economic growth are multiplied by continuing population growth and poverty increase. Today the developing countries are in extremely hard situation: they won’t overcome economic gap which is the main cause of ecological disruption without accelerating the development. But at the same time, the uncontrolled increase of economic production results in intensification of environmental crisis. It determines the urgent need to shift from the traditional model of industrial development relying on the postulate "growth first clean up later" to the model of "green" development. This economic concept is defined as eco-industrial revolution. In order to carry this task these states have to include the elements of post-industrial "green" development into the model of the industrial type development catch up. In its practical realization this model may cause further differentiation of developing countries and inequality on the global level. The emerging economics of the Asia Pacific region possess enough technological, financial resources and political will to join the "green world". But scarcely the poor countries of Africa or South Asia will demonstrate the same high interest in providing secure ecological development. Sustainable economics will probably facilitate entering the "green world".


2021 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
N.V. Popkova ◽  

Discussed is the need for a historical analysis of the relationship between man and nature for the formation of the theoretical basis of environmental education is considered. It is shown that a holistic picture of the historical interaction between mankind and the Earth’s biosphere is necessary for understanding modern global processes: the disclosure of the causes of the ecological crisis will help to create programs for the greening of human activity. Traditional historical approaches developed by the philosophy of history are not suitable for solving this problem, since they do not take into account the natural limitations of technological progress and the evolutionary role of humanity in the biosphere. The article discusses new concepts proposed for a comprehensive study of historical processes and the biosphere transformations caused by them. It is concluded that the level of their development does not yet allow using them for educational purposes. Nevertheless, the analysis of the consequences of technical development made with their help in the context of historical reality makes it possible to reflect the trend of technologization of man and nature. The main regularities of the relationship between mankind and the biosphere can be distinguished on the basis of the ratio of biological and technological factors, on which the life of people depended in different eras. Understanding the nature of the modern ecological crisis is necessary for the development of scientifically grounded programs to neutralize the negative consequences of the formation and expansion of technical reality.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1958 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangxiang Sun ◽  
Lawrence Loh

The Chinese government is committed to sustainability governance to alleviate the shortage of energy and the imbalance between ecological environment and economic development. This paper evaluates and analyzes the sustainability governance performance of China. A bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA) is proposed to evaluate sustainability governance performance of 30 provinces based on ecological efficiency in China from 1998 to 2015. The results indicate that the ecological efficiency of China significantly improved as a whole, which is related to the decline in sulfur dioxide emissions. Among these provinces, Jiangsu, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia exhibited the highest values, while Gansu, Chongqing, and Sichuan had the lowest values. The 30 provinces were divided into four sub-areas. The average ecological efficiency of the eastern area was the highest, followed by the northeast area. Compared to the east area, northeast area, and central area, we find that west area obviously falls behind. As such, the results provide helpful guidance to improve ecological governance performance.


2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
赵其国 ZHAO Qiguo ◽  
黄国勤 HUANG Guoqin ◽  
马艳芹 MA Yanqin

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