Document: RUS-3-7-9

Old tradition and new transition: urban ecology in China.

WANG, R.S.*, Z.Y.OUYANG and D.HU

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China. 1

Abstract:
China has been experiencing rapid urbanization and rural industrialization with the transition from its planned to a market economy since 1978. The pace, depth, and magnitude of these developments have exerted severe ecological stress on both local human living conditions and regional life support ecosystems. Urban sustainability can only be assured with a human-ecological understanding of the complex interaction between environmental, economic and socio-cultural factors and with comprehensive planning and management rooted in ecological principles. Based on the ancient Chinese human ecological principles, urban ecology in China is to promote eco-sustainability at four levels of natural ecology, economic ecology, human ecology and systems ecology from five context types: time, space, quantity, configuration and order.

Keywords: China, urbanization, sustainability

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This abstract is being presented at: 4:15 PM in session:
Symposium # 11: Urban Ecology: The Eastern and Western Perspectives.