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Human Green Development Report 2014

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Editors:
  1. Xiaoxi Li

    1. School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  • Gives simple check-up for human-Earth dual-sustainable development (DSD)
  • An invaluable ‘state of the nations’ report on progress towards Millennium Development Goals
  • Provides a detailed, empirical rationale behind new Sustainable Development Goals
  • Includes a wealth of data expressed in today’s more finely tuned, 'inequality adjusted' metrics
  • Covering 12 new goals with 54 new targets - more than twice the number previously adopted
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Current Chinese Economic Report Series (CCERS)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Theory, Compilation and Measurement of Human Green Development Index (HGDI)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Theoretical Rationale Behind HGDI

      • Xiaoxi Li
      Pages 3-5

    3. HGDI Compilation Principles

      • Xiaoxi Li
      Pages 7-9

    4. Choosing HGDI Indicators and Constructing Indicator System

      • Xiaoxi Li, Yimeng Liu
      Pages 11-14

    5. Choose Countries for HGDI Measurement

      • Xiaoxi Li, Tao Song
      Pages 15-16

    6. Approaches to Measure HGDI

      • Xiaoxi Li, Ning Cai, Yang Liu
      Pages 17-20

    7. Results and Analysis of HGDI Measurements

      • Xiaoxi Li
      Pages 21-25

    8. Five Suggestions for SDGs—Inspirations from HGDI Measurement

      • Xiaoxi Li
      Pages 27-30

  3. Human Green Development Index (HGDI) Indicators Interpretation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Extreme Poverty Indicator: Proportion of Population Below Minimum Level of Dietary Energy Consumption

      • Qi Zhang, Fei Li
      Pages 33-49

    3. Income Indicator: Inequality-Adjusted Income Index

      • Shengling Zhang, Ning Cai
      Pages 51-58

    4. Health Indicator: Inequality-Adjusted Life Expectancy Index

      • Zhanjun Zhang, Ning Cai
      Pages 59-67

    5. Educational Indicator: Inequality-Adjusted Education Index

      • Yuhong Du, Ning Cai
      Pages 69-76

    6. Sanitation Indicator: “Proportion of Population Using an Improved Sanitation Facility”

      • Nuo Wang, Tao Song
      Pages 77-94

    7. Energy Indicator: Primary Energy Intensity

      • Weibin Lin, Yingzi Li
      Pages 95-115

    8. Climate Change Indicator: CO2 Emissions Per Capita

      • Yimeng Liu, Hezhong Tian
      Pages 117-132

    9. Air Pollution Indicator: PM10

      • Hezhong Tian, Yimeng Liu
      Pages 133-153

    10. Land Indicator: Terrestrial Protected Areas of Total Land Area

      • Zhengwang Zhang, Yang Liu
      Pages 155-169

    11. Forest Indicator: Forest Area (% of Land Area)

      • Tianming Wang, Fei Li
      Pages 171-187
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This exhaustive survey assesses the performance of the United Nations and its member states in all key areas, at the same time as laying down a road map for sustainable development in the future. Deploying the Human Green Development Index as a new metric for an era in which human survival is intimately dependent on the viability of the Earth as a clean and sustainable habitat, the report showcases a vast array of data, including HGDI indicators for more than 120 nations. It provides a detailed and comparative rationale for the selection of data for the 12 goals and 54 HGDI targets, which cover human and global needs into the future. The index measures 12 Sustainable Development Goals, based on but also extending the eight Millennium Development Goals defined in 2000. The SDGs, proposed by a high-level UN panel, will supersede MDGs in 2015. They focus on ending poverty, achieving gender equality, providing quality education for all, helping people live healthy lives, securing sustainable energy use, and creating jobs offering sustainable livelihoods. They also work towards equitable growth, stable and peaceful societies, greater efficiency in governance, and closer international cooperation. With indicators covering everything from air particulates to percentage of threatened animal species in a nation’s total, and informed by the latest research (with inequality-adjusted metrics for amenities such as education and healthcare), this comprehensive study offers readers not only a wealth of valuable core data, but also a well-argued rationale for using the HGDI. In today’s world, we cannot view our development as being distinct from, and unaffected by, that of the Earth we inhabit, or that of our planetary cohabitees.

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  • School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Xiaoxi Li

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