Abstract:
This Special Issue comprises original research contributions on the changing landscape of sustainability policies and their economic and social impacts. The first paper duscusses the 'green growth' and 'de-growth' recipes for global climate change. The other ten papers address the transition policies of two major actors of the world system: the European Union (five papers) and China (five papers). The papers show that, in spite of the huge differences between the EU27 and China, in both cases, environmental and climate energy policies, as well as circular economy policies, can be effective in driving the sustainability transition or some of its core processes. Effectiveness emerges for a broad range of different policy approaches. A clear-cut conclusion emerging from the papers is that innovation, technological, social or institutional, is the key lever to make policies effective.
Subjects:
environmental regulation
Taiwanese investment in mainland China
system GMM
clean energy technologies
European Green Deal
dynamic computable general equilibrium model
policy complexity
revenue recycling
technological spillovers
systems thinking
sustainable energy transition
construction sector
circular economy
policies
recycling
reuse
green total factor productivity
inter-industry factor allocation
EBM-ML model
instrumental variable method
green growth
degrowth
decoupling
Kaya identity
climate change
resource-based cities
environmental information disclosure
high-quality development
PSM-DID method
mediating effects
system generalized method of moments
transmission mechanism
carbon emission
low-carbon pilot city policies
high-quality economic development
industrial structure
urban innovation
regional integration
carbon emission performance
DID model
Yangtze River Economic Belt
waste recycling
quality of institutions
trust in institutions
circular economy action plan
strategic autonomy
green transition
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