A Study On Consumption Mode Of Residents Under The Constraint Of Resources And Environment

The relationship between mankind and nature, to some extent, is the relationship between the human behavior and mode of consumption and the exploiting and development on resources and the pollution and damage on environment. Though we can not definitely say that changes of resources and environment were responsible for human consumptive behavior, however, in the face of growing global resource depletion and environmental crisis, it is no doubt that human consume play a very important role, especially such the unsustainable consumption patterns as high-consumption, over-consumption, and conspicuous consumption. It is precisely because of the existence of waste of resources, environmental damage-based consumption patterns in many countries and regions of modern Western society, especially the consumption needs of people affected by excessive"desire"to meet the unreasonable driven consumption patterns, damaged our ecological environment a greater extent. Although the Western developed countries had paid attention to the country's resource-saving and environmental protection, however, the irrational consumption patterns of Western society that is ahead of the current actual level of economic development in the world in, not taking into account the interests of future generations, not only caused the severe resource depletion and environmental damage, led to tensions between mankind and nature, even confrontation, but also severely poisoned the social atmosphere, causing the lost of consumer morality and environmental ethics, which is obviously not conducive to the all-round development and social civilization and progress.In this paper, based on the actual situation and background conditions of the increasingly serious problem of resources and the environment, on the base of such issues as the meaning of consumption, interdisciplinary nature and attributes of the relationship between man and nature, a review and assessment of the theoretical analysis, discussing unsustainable pattern of consumption behavior and mode which is being more and more serious environmental impact and pressure in the daily life. Through the deep analysis of consumption growth and the theory of sustainable development, I think that we should improve people's consumption patterns in order to achieve the goal which is an important condition for socio-economic sustainable development. Therefore, under the conditions of the increasingly tight binding of resources and environment in the current, to implement the scientific concept of development, to promote the overall development and social civilization and progress, and to the achievement sustainable development of population consumption and the social, economic, resources, environment, we must construction of eco-consumption patterns of residents, which is"Consumption Mode of Ecological Civilization". The full text is about 17 million words, sub-launched seven chapters.Chapter 1 is an Introduction. The chapter described the background of research, significance, document overview and review, the logic of clues, research methods and structure.For the beginning from the meaning of consumption, Chapter 2 analysis the multidisciplinary nature and attributes of consumption by the way of interdisciplinary, and think that consumption is the ultimate performance of human and nature relationship between material and energy exchange. In modern society, unsustainable consumption patterns on the need of over-consumption by some"desire", is reflecting the sharp contradictions between the consumption and the ecological environment in a larger extent. In fact, residents'consumption finally performed the relationship of material and energy exchange between human and nature. Based this, the title recalled and reviewed the theory about the relationship between man and nature, and thought that the harmony between man and nature should reasonably exploit and utilized and consume natural resources, effectly solve contradictions between the needs of human survival and development and the natural ecological, and maintain and enhance the capacity for sustainable development of economic social and natural, finally achieve a balanced and coordinated development of consumption, society, economy, resources and environment. On the basis the analysis and elaboration of the connotation, definition and development process of consumption pattern, the author preliminary made consumption mode of ecological civilization, which is in line with the requirements of construction of ecological civilization and sustainable development, which provides the groundwork for the analysis of Chapter 6.Relationship between man and nature to some extent reflected relationship between the consumer and the natural ecological environment. In fact, whether about natural resources and ecological environment is good or not have an important impact on the demand of the residents'consumer choices and consumption patterns and so on, which directly reflect related the degree of satisfaction and realization of human survival, enjoyment and development needs. Not only that, with the increasingly serious global resources and environmental problems in modern society, the problem became more serious and deepening due to the arising changes of residents'consumption patterns because of the pursuit of unsustainable patterns of consumption meet. In particular, such unsustainable consumption mode as disposable consumer goods and excessive packaging products with a large number, and the freely thrown waste in the life, which has being increased the impact and damage on natural resources and ecological environment, and has paid a heavy price of resources and the environment which people survive in the life. Clearly, it is no time to lose that we try to find the modern consumption mode which is scientific and rational, resource-conserving, environment-friendly.Chapter 4 is an example for food consumption. With the continuous and rapid increase of socio-economy and the rapid residents'income growth, the Chinese is entering a new stage of development, which from the issue of food and clothing not being resolved before China's reform and opening-up, to be resolved gradually after that time, until now, to be new stage of development which the consumption structure is continuously adjusted, consumption level tends to raise, and consumption mode is growing diversification. At the same time, food consumption mode of the residents have been some significant changes with that from survival-type to the direction for"enjoyment", but there have been some consumer behavior, i.e. resources waste, environmental damage, such as large-scale use of excessive packaged food, luxury consumption eating outside by carrying out with enormous waste, which is bound to the supply of pressure from resources such as the forest, land and freshwater. Not only this, large-scale use of pesticides, fertilizers and other agricultural means of production in the process of agricultural production, as well as large-scale livestock poultry breeding industry arising from pollution of all kinds, not only resources and environmental pressures become more serious which faced by residents'food consumption, to some extent, restricted the sustainable development of agriculture.Chapter 5 tends to a depth theoretical analysis. Consumption growth, especially the extensive consumption, although promotes strongly economic growth, but inevitably result in a very serious negative impact on resources and the environment, and the sustainable development of the national economy more profoundly. According to the main line and the development of the law of conduction from"consumption growth"to"economic growth", to"economic development", to"sustainable development", Title analysis the extreme importance of socio-economic of the development about the sustainability of consumption growth. Finally, the title came to the conclusion that"improving people's consumption mode is an important guarantee for achieving socio-economic objectives of sustainable development". In this process, the chapter compares and analysis deeply the mechanism and the mechanism of internal relations among consumption, growth and sustainable development under the constraints of resources and the environment, supported by the change of consumption structure nearly 60 years in China, and energy consumption patterns of the United States and other examples of transition, and come a conclusion which constraints of unsustainable population changes in consumption patterns is an important guarantee to achieve the objectives of sustainable development in our country.Chapter 6 is the path and the implementation of countermeasures about consumption mode of residents. Ecological civilization is identified as an important strategic objective of well-off society for the first time in the 17th National People's Congress of CPC. Based on the development trend which ecological ethics, environmental ethics and moral values of consumers continue to extend to economic field, we analysis and explore the internal properties and the important role of ecological consumption, and concluded that consumption mode of ecological civilization is a new location of consumer development under the constraints of resources and environment in the 21st century. Based on the inherent and role of consumption mode of ecological civilization, I think that the kind of mode put consumption on the place of"people - the social - economic– natural", and expanded ethics and values to inhuman standards of natural ecosystems. Consumption mode of ecological civilization is a new reorientation of human lifestyles and consumption mode of human society. Finally, the author built consumption mode of ecological civilization from three areas, which is the government, enterprises and consumers.The study about consumption mode of residents under the constraints of resources and environment is in order to achieve theoretical breakthroughs and innovation in the following.1. On human economic behavior and the relationship between resources and environmental issues, there are many more in-depth studies as following subjects: consumer economics, environmental economics, ecological economics, resource and environmental economics and others. However, there are not many studies about the issue of resources and environment from the perspective of the consumer. Even if the existing research about the consumer model are broad, and mostly focus on the ultimate goal of the pursuit of economic interests or consumption of human effect maximization from the perspective of the economic. In this paper, consumer activities are placed on the grand system of coordinates of"people - the social - economic– natural", and expanded ethics and values to inhuman standards of natural ecosystems. The consumer activities are not only an economic phenomenon, but a social and cultural phenomenon, which contains multidisciplinary nature and attributes. This paper analysis and discuses consumption mode mainly from economics, sociology, ethics, ecology and law fields, combining with the interdisciplinary nature of the consumer, to try to build a scientific and reasonable consumption mode of residents under the constrains of resources and environment.2. Under the increasingly tight constraints of resources and environment in the current conditions, the goal for change of unreasonable consumption mode of residents is to achieve the sustainable development of demographic, social, economic, resource and environmental. From the promotion of people's consumption growth to the achievement for sustainable socio-economic development, it is not a"quick"for intrinsically linked to its mechanism and transmission mechanism. Based on the main line and the development of the law of conduction, which is from"consumption growth"to"economic growth", to "economic development", and to"sustainable development", this paper analysis and discuss the logic of path dependence from the"consumption growth"to"sustainable development", and the mechanism of development about economic growth, as well as the mechanism of internal relations among consumption, growth and sustainable development under the constraints of resources and environment, and finally came to the conclusion, which is"improving the consumption mode of residents is an important guarantee for implementing the scientific development concept, and retaliating sustainable socio-economic development.3. Throughout the modern history of the development of consumption mode, green consumption and the sustainable consumption is a great progress of human consumption civilization and moral values. To implement the scientific development concept, building an ecological civilization of harmonious development of man and nature, and promoting sustainable development of comprehensive and coordinated in economic society, achieving the ultimate all-round social progress and human development, the author puts forward consumption mode of ecological civilization under the constraint of resources and environment. Compared with the green consumption, I believe that green consumption should be put into the consumption mode of ecological civilization, which is an important part of the extension.As a model of sustainable consumption, the consumption mode of ecological civilization had a comprehensive, multi-faceted, multi-linear cross-thinking, re-posited of human behavior and ways of consumption, and providing a scientific reasonable consumption value of the concept of perspective and scale in order to understand their own humanity..