UWSEs Sustainability and Modernization: Achievements and Main Challenges

Bolognesi, Thomas

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-59255-2_3

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“…Scholars, like Bolognesi, have linked the concept of "sustainability" to urban water governance and constructed different models of "sustainability", differentiating the economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainability. Further, Bolognesi has elaborated on the tensions and the antagonistic relationships between the economic pillar and other pillars of sustainability, as derived from the incompatibilities between the principles of the governance of modernization and its objectives [2,3]. The polysemy and multiple connotations of "sustainability" contribute to the complex relationship between "sustainability" and actual policy developments, since different meanings of "sustainability" can be linked to different norms, values, and conceptual models, which could result in opposite directions in public policy development.…”

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Reinterpreting the Connotation of “Sustainability” and the Expansion of Social Policy in China

Liu

Tong

2019

Sustainability

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This article examines the interplay between welfare ideas and institutional development and then seeks to explore the ideational background for social policy expansion in China. It focuses on the welfare semantics and narratives that underpin the grand social policy transformation since the millennium. The primary research question concerns whether the approach of “sustainability” is related to social policy in China, and, if yes, how and to what extent. Through the analysis of academic literatures and government documents on social policy in China, we explore the new “sustainability approach” to Chinese social policy that is constructed by social experts and international agencies. While the old sustainability approach overwhelmingly links the “sustainable development” of social policy to the issue of financial affordability and the adequacy of benefit levels, the newly interpreted approach highlights the significant meaning of social policy for long-term and inclusive development over the upcoming decades. Against this backdrop, a holistic national plan for socio-economic modernization has incorporated social policy. Beyond economic and ecological objectives, social development with a focus on social policy has become a key pillar of sustainable development in China.

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