China and the Environment

The Green Revolution

Bibliographic Data

ID19906753
AuthorsIsabel Hilton
EditorsSam Geall (0000-0003-3356-5668)
Year2013
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChina and the Environment (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherZed Books Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350217973
OpenAlexW4231313736
Open LibraryOL34470597M
ISBN9781350217973
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Sixteen of the world‘s 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change. But how are Chinese people really coming to grips with environmental problems? This book provides access to otherwise unknown stories of environmental activism and forms the first real-life account of China and its environmental tensions. ‘China and the Environment’ provides a unique report on the experiences of participatory politics that have emerged in response to environmental problems, rather than focusing only on macro-level ecological

China · Climate change · Development economics · Economics · Environmental pollution · Environmental protection · Environmentalism · Geography · Political science · Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · Ecology · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management · Environmental policy · Pollution

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