绿色经济、绿色增长和绿色发展:概念内涵与研究评析

Green Economy,Green Growth and Green Development:Concept Connotation and Literature Review

本文基于复杂系统理论范式,以权威文献和文件中各概念的定义文本为对象,运用机器学习的方法分析绿色经济、绿色增长和绿色发展三个概念的系统构成要素和反馈关系,揭示各概念的核心内涵和差异。研究发现,三个概念的系统构成要素均包含经济发展、社会公平和资源环境等核心内容,差异主要体现在对核心内容的关注点不同;三个概念的系统网络特征反映出经济、社会和生态三个子系统之间存在复杂网络关系,各概念的网络侧重点不同导致其反馈关系存在差异,这些反馈关系的差异又反映了各概念体现的发展路径的不同。系统要素和反馈关系的拓展和演化将推动人类社会发展理念的演化,因此未来研究应采用复杂系统范式和多学科交叉的方法,从人类发展系统要素和反馈关系的识别和剖析的角度推动相关概念和理论的创新。本文针对中国实践情境,探索中国特色的绿色发展路径,可为发展模式实现绿色转型提供理论和实践借鉴。

Since the 21st century,human development has faced severe challenges of economic,social and ecological issues,which arouses widespread attention on a series of new development concepts of green economy,green growth,and green development.The core connotations of the three green concepts revolve around how to achieve the coordinated development of economy,society and ecology.Because the three concepts are proposed under different temporal and spatial backgrounds and target countries or regions at different development stages,the interpretations of the three concepts are complicated and diverse,and have not reached a unified view.Therefore,based on the theoretical framework of complex system,this study takes the definitions of the concepts of green economy,green growth and green development from SCI and SSCI journals and international organizations as the research object,and employs the machine learning method to explore the connotation and development concept differences of the three concepts by comparing and analyzing their core elements and feedback relationships.The results show that,from the perspective of the core elements of the human development system,the text frequency characteristics of green economy,green growth and green development indicate that the three concepts have similar core elements in the economic,social and ecological subsystems.They differ in their focus,where the green economy stresses social equity,green growth pays more attention to employment and technical issues in economic development,and green development emphasizes industrial issues in economic development.From the perspective of the feedback relationships in the human development system,the commonality of the three concepts lies in the shared cognition that the positive feedback structure of economic growth is the basis of the system,where economic development contributes to social progress and inclusiveness,and social harmony thereby promotes economic development.Furthermore,the ecological environment acts as both material basis and restrictive factor of social and economic development,which constitutes a negative feedback structure.The differences in the feedback relationships of the three concepts are reflected in the differences in their key feedback structures.For example,green economy focuses on preventing financial risks,while green growth and green development emphasize industrial structure adjustment and employment increase.The main contributions of this study can be divided into three aspects:(1)This study explores and analyzes the core connotations and differences of the concepts of green economy,green growth and green development from the complex system perspective,rendering a more scientific explanation of development issues from the theoretical level and providing reference for the theoretical innovation and practice of the development concepts.(2)The adoption of machine learning method in the study achieves a more comprehensive recognition and comparison of the implicit connotation and feedback relationships of the concepts based on the in-depth exploration of the meaning and relationship of the words,which is a beneficial supplement to existing mapping knowledge domain analysis.(3)Based on the analysis of the connotation of the three concepts,this study puts forward the following three potential directions for future research:First,for theoretical innovation,future research should identify and recognize the elements and the feedback relationships of the human development system more scientifically and accurately to promote the expansion and evolution of the development concepts.Second,regarding research paradigms and methods,the improvement of development concepts requires the continuous updating and integration of research paradigms and methods.Thus,future research should realize the expansion and scientization of the theories by adopting complex system paradigms and multidisciplinary methods.Third,concerning the research context,future research should focus on the research and practice of green development theory in China’s special context and actively explore green development paths with Chinese characteristics,so as to provide theoretical and practical reference for China’s realization of green transformation.