RT Report
T1 Resource efficiency: economics and outlook for China
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
PB United Nations Environment Programme
SN 978-92-807-3318-1
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8119
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8119
NO China's rate of economic development and social progress in recent decades has been extraordinarily rapid. As is generally the case when a nation industrializes and urbanizes, Chinas rapidly improving material standards of living have come with a greatly increased per capita demand for natural resources, and a corresponding increase in the environmental pressures associated with extracting, processing, and using these natural resources.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 16, 2026