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Environment, Population and Society under the Dual Carbon Goal: Spatial Use, Resource Management and Waste Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2023) | Viewed by 3996

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Wenjuan Gong

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Guest Editor
School of Sociology and Anthropology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, China
Interests: social impact assessment of environmental issues; public’s environmental risk response behavior; evaluation of rural ecological and environmental synergistic management effects; environmental social governance; environment and health
Prof. Dr. Chuntian Lu

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Guest Editor
School of Humanities, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Interests: environmental sociology; social stratification and mobility

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues.

The Annual Conference of Chinese Sociology 2022 will be held at Xiamen University from July 15 to 17. The sub-forum "Environment, Population and Society under the Dual Carbon Goal: Spatial Use, Resource Management and Waste Management " has been established. The forum is jointly organized by the Institute of Population and Ecology, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Xiamen University, the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Department of Sociology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, the Center for Rural Environment and Society, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and The Journal of Chinese Sociology. We invite you to submit your papers for the conference. The following is the notice of related matters.

Theme and scope

In the context of China's "double carbon" goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, a series of new phenomena and new problems have emerged in the field of environmental and social governance, and the relevant social reality and mechanisms are in urgent need of research. With the aim of promoting the construction of ecological civilization and the harmonious coexistence between human and nature, this forum intends to convene papers on natural resources management, population health, waste management, green lifestyle, spatial utilization, technology and industrial innovation mechanism, risk communication and other topics in the context of "double carbon", and conduct academic discussions to promote the output of research results on related topics.

Forum topics include (but are not limited to):

  1. The transformation of environmental governance under the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality;
  2. The relationship between human and ecology/nature/biology in the context of ontological shift (multiple practices, concepts, ethics);
  3. Waste (topics such as waste separation, agricultural waste management, circular economy, food waste);
  4. Environmental risk communication and environmental social governance;
  5. Environmental issues and population health;
  6. Environmental technology innovation (e.g., new energy products use, new energy industry development) and society;
  7. Sustainable consumption, green lifestyles and green ecological values;
  8. Ecological civilization construction and environmental governance modernization;
  9. Natural resource management, spatial utilization and green development.

Conference Arrangement

1）The forum is expected to last for 1 day.

(2) The forum will be held offline, and the organizer will notify the participants 1-2 weeks before the forum starts.

Dr. Wenjuan Gong
Prof. Dr. Chuntian Lu
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • environmental governance
  • environmental issues and population health
  • sustainable consumption
  • ecological civilization construction
  • resource management

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Urban Ecological Culture Construction and the Formation of Residents’ Green Living: Evidence from National Forest City Construction in China
by Hanjin Xie, Chunmei Yang and Yanping Liu
Sustainability 2023, 15(18), 13496; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813496 - 08 Sep 2023
Cited by 1 | Viewed by 790
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Based on the data of 282 cities from 2006 to 2019, this paper conducts a quasi-natural experiment with National Forest City as a proxy variable for urban ecological culture construction (Cul), using the difference-in-differences model to verify its impact and mechanisms [...] Read more.
Based on the data of 282 cities from 2006 to 2019, this paper conducts a quasi-natural experiment with National Forest City as a proxy variable for urban ecological culture construction (Cul), using the difference-in-differences model to verify its impact and mechanisms on residents’ green living. The results are described as follows. (1) Urban ecological culture construction helps form residents’ green living, specifically, reducing carbon emissions from electricity, transportation, and heating, and this conclusion still holds after a series of robustness tests. (2) Urban ecological culture construction helps form residents’ green living through two mediating channels: enhancing public environmental protection participation and forming green consumption awareness. (3) Confucianism plays a positive moderating role in the process of urban ecological culture construction promoting residents’ green living, while the moderating role of exotic culture is not significant. It is worth mentioning that the role of Confucianism remains unchanged even when the above two cultures coexist. In view of this, this paper argues that urban ecological culture construction matters in forming residents’ green living. The organic integration of modern urban ecological culture construction with the region’s excellent traditional culture is worth noting. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environment, Population and Society under the Dual Carbon Goal: Spatial Use, Resource Management and Waste Management)
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Integration of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Policy and Practice of Nature-Based Solutions in China: Progress and Highlights
by Ruizi Yu and Quan Mu
Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 11104; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411104 - 17 Jul 2023
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China promotes nature-based solutions (NbS) as key approaches to addressing climate change, ecosystem damage, and biodiversity loss. However, indigenous and local knowledge (ILK), which is recognized by international scholars as an essential element of successful NbS, has not been thoroughly studied in the [...] Read more.
China promotes nature-based solutions (NbS) as key approaches to addressing climate change, ecosystem damage, and biodiversity loss. However, indigenous and local knowledge (ILK), which is recognized by international scholars as an essential element of successful NbS, has not been thoroughly studied in the Chinese context. By conducting a comprehensive review of Chinese central governmental policies and semi-structured interviews with typical cases, this study finds diversified sources of ILK and five pathways of ILK integration, including education, supervision, participation, knowledge preservation, and knowledge adoption. An increasing emphasis on community engagement has been driven by central policies, such as ecological civilization, carbon peaking, and carbon neutrality goals. From a practical perspective, consistent core ideas of ILK exist in selected typical Chinese cases and studies in other countries, namely co-existence and reciprocity with nature. While supportive central policies can set the scene, ILK integration could not be realized without local governmental endorsement, context-based implementation, and long-term multi-stakeholder participation. Furthermore, this study also figures out a potential deficiency in terms of realizing effective ILK integration in mainstream and conventional practices, which can be further investigated by future studies. Full article
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The Effect of the Dwelling Environment on Rural Elderly Cognition: Empirical Evidence from China
by Yuxiao Gao, Youhua Wang and Tao Rao
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16387; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416387 - 07 Dec 2022
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Due to the falling birth rate and large-scale rural–urban migration, the ageing population in rural China is critical, and the quality of life of the rural elderly needs to be given more attention. In recent years, as an important part of new rural [...] Read more.
Due to the falling birth rate and large-scale rural–urban migration, the ageing population in rural China is critical, and the quality of life of the rural elderly needs to be given more attention. In recent years, as an important part of new rural construction in China, the rural environment has been greatly improved, but the impact of such environmental improvement on the health of the rural elderly is not clear. Based on China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) data, this paper aims to assess the effect of the improvement of the indoor dwelling environment on cognition among the rural elderly by using a series of the difference-in-difference models (DID) under a counterfactual causality framework. The results showed that first, the improvement of both the toilet type and in-house shower/bath facility had a significant effect on the overall memory and delayed memory among the rural elderly in China, but the effect on immediate memory did not pass the significant test. Second, although access to running water could improve all types of memory, the effect was not significant. In summary, the indoor dwelling environment should be strengthened to ensure the process of healthy ageing in rural China. Full article
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