Sustainability and Law: Works in Progress in China

The concept of sustainable development has been on the forefront since 1987, when the World Commission on the Environment and Development, commissioned by a General Assembly resolution and chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland, issued a report entitled “Our Common Future,” also known as the Brundtland report. This document defined sustainable development as a “development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. The concept of sustainable development, as one of the leitmotivs of the discourse on growth of the last few decades, reached China in the middle of the massive reforms that placed the country at the core of global dynamics. This book aims at reconstructing the principal developments towards a more sustainable process of growth that affect the legal environment of the system of “doing business in China”. S