PLURALIZE: Pluralizing the just transition: Building principles and practices of just transitions in China

如果没有“公正的过渡”，全球环境危机就无法得到解决，这一概念的提出是为了捕捉将福祉和正义置于其核心的深刻而深远的社会重组。中国作为世界第二大经济体、最大的温室气体排放国以及可再生能源的主要生产国和使用国，将塑造全球转型轨迹。然而，公正过渡的概念尚未在中国的政治体系中获得牵引力。PLURALIZE的目标是通过确定适用于中国的公正过渡的实践和原则来应对这一差距。PLURALIZE有四个目标。首先，该项目将通过借鉴中国的思想传统、政策实践和个人经验，扩大公正转型的概念化。第二，PLURALIZE将记录中国地方政府管理转型实践的演变，以获取指导当今行动可能性的基本原则。第三个目标是确定中国当代环境政策公正转型的原则和实践，从而扩展与这一概念相关的话语和工具。第四，该项目将研究中国的外国投资如何在世界各地的城市中形成公正的过渡。PLURALIZE是第一次系统地尝试将哲学原理、历史分析、当代政策和外国投资流动结合起来，探索中国城市的公正转型。该项目不仅寻求扩大公正过渡研究的地理范围，而且构建一个新的理论工具包，可以改变我们对公正过渡的理解。这将为在地缘政治转型时代解决生态崩溃和社会福祉问题提供新的机会。

The global environmental crisis cannot be addressed without a 'just transition', a concept developed to capture deep and far-reaching social reconfigurations that place well-being and justice at their heart. China, as the world's second largest economy, largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and leading producer and user of renewable energy, will shape global transition trajectories. However, the concept of just transitions has not yet gained traction within China's political system. The aim of PLURALIZE is to respond to this gap, by identifying practices and principles of just transitions that can apply in China. PLURALIZE has four objectives. First, the project will expand conceptualizations of just transitions by drawing on thought traditions, policy practices, and individual experiences in China. Second, PLURALIZE will document the evolution of local government practices for managing transitions in China to capture foundational principles that inform the possibilities for action today. The third objective is to identify principles and practices of just transitions in contemporary environmental policy in China, thus expanding the repertoire of discourses and instruments associated with the concept. Fourth, the project will examine how Chinese foreign investment shapes just transitions in cities across world regions. PLURALIZE constitutes the first systematic attempt to bring together philosophical principles, historical analysis, contemporary policy, and foreign investment flows to explore just transitions in urban China. The project not only seeks to expand the geographical scope of just transitions research, but to construct a new theoretical toolkit that can transform our understanding of just transitions. This will enable new opportunities to address ecological breakdown and social wellbeing in an era of geopolitical transformation.