The main objective of the experimental sustainable communities is to develop new mechanisms which will benefit economic development while keeping in harmony with social development and environmental protection; to improve the relationship between human beings and nature by increasing people´s awareness of new concepts and improving their capabilities; and to ´´control population growth, expand job availability, improve the social security system, protect the environment; and in this way to promote social prosperity through fair, secure, civilized and healthy development.´´
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Chinese Landscapes: The Village As Place Ronald G. Knapp (Editor) EDITION: University of Hawaii Press; (July 1992) China lives in its villages, but there is no prototypical village. The variety of village designs, settlement patterns, housing forms, cultural practices, and economic activities is as variegated as China itself. This excellent book comprises 17 chapter-length studies of villages throughout China by U.S. and Chinese geographers, anthropologists, and regional planners.
WWF China’s Shangri-La Initiative is using education as a means to empower Shangri-La’s local communities, in Yunnan close to Tibet, to manage their resources in a sustainable manner. http://www.wwfchina.org/english/sub_loca.php?loca=12&sub=93
In 1986, the Chinese government began to explore a way of establishing experimental community for sustainable development.
Experimental communities have the prime objective to develop sustainable mechanisms to balance economic development, social development and environment. This project that was first called Experimental Sustainable Communities was renamed National Sustainable Communities in 1997. http://www.acca21.org.cn/local/enexperi/intro.htm
The main objective of the experimental sustainable communities is to develop new mechanisms which will benefit economic development while keeping in harmony with social development and environmental protection; to improve the relationship between human beings and nature by increasing people´s awareness of new concepts and improving their capabilities; and to ´´control population growth, expand job availability, improve the social security system, protect the environment; and in this way to promote social prosperity through fair, secure, civilized and healthy development.´´ http://www.acca21.org.cn/indexe11.html
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