| Population Growth,Available Resources,and Quality of Life:China’s Post-Reform Economic Development |
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| 作者姓名： | Tim Futing Liao |
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| 作者单位： | Department of Sociology,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Champaign |
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| 摘 要： | Two opposing intellectual traditions and their contem-porary developments regarding the relations among population, available resources, and quality of life as reflected in economic growth are reviewed. What is at issue is whether population growth is detrimental to or beneficial for economic development. Neither of the extreme views gives a complete picture of the interplay among population, resources, and quality of life. Following previous literature on the topic, this paper establishes a more balanced approach that considers the function linking population and quality of life not constant but variable and regards the limitedness of resources as not absolute but relative to regions and societies. The proposed approach is more flexible in better explaining the relation between population and economic growth. China is examined as a case in point to shed light on the interaction of population growth, economic development, and available resources, and its recent post-economic reform experiences showcase the appropriateness of the synthetic approach.
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| 关 键 词： | population growth migration natural resources economic development quality of life |
Population Growth,Available Resources,and Quality of Life:China’s Post-Reform Economic Development |
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| Tim Futing Liao.Population Growth,Available Resources,and Quality of Life:China’s Post-Reform Economic Development[J].Chinese JOurnal of Population Resources and Environment,2012(2):67-77. |
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| Authors: | Tim Futing Liao Hua Qin |
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| Institution: | Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States; 2. Department of Environmental Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL 62703, United States |
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| Abstract: | Two opposing intellectual traditions and their contem-porary developments regarding the relations among population, available resources, and quality of life as reflected in economic growth are reviewed. What is at issue is whether population growth is detrimental to or beneficial for economic development. Neither of the extreme views gives a complete picture of the interplay among population, resources, and quality of life. Following previous literature on the topic, this paper establishes a more balanced approach that considers the function linking population and quality of life not constant but variable and regards the limitedness of resources as not absolute but relative to regions and societies. The proposed approach is more flexible in better explaining the relation between population and economic growth. China is examined as a case in point to shed light on the interaction of population growth, economic development, and available resources, and its recent post-economic reform experiences showcase the appropriateness of the synthetic approach. |
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| Keywords: | population growth migration natural resources economic development quality of life |
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