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

如果没有“公正转型”，全球环境危机就无法得到解决。“公正转型”是一个概念，旨在捕捉以福祉和正义为核心的深刻而深远的社会重构。作为世界第二大经济体、最大的温室气体排放国、可再生能源的主要生产国和消费国，中国将塑造全球转型的轨迹。然而，正当转型的概念尚未在中国的政治体制中得到重视。PLURALIZE的目标是通过确定适用于中国的公正转型的实践和原则来回应这一差距。复数形式有四个目的。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，拓展公正转型的概念。其次，PLURALIZE将记录中国地方政府管理转型实践的演变，以捕捉为当今行动提供可能性的基本原则。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，从而扩大与这一概念相关的话语和工具的范围。第四，该项目将考察中国对外投资如何影响世界各地城市的转型。《多元》是第一次系统地将哲学原理、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转型研究的地理范围，而且构建一个新的理论工具包，可以改变我们对公正转型的理解。这将为解决地缘政治转型时代的生态崩溃和社会福祉提供新的机会。

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.