Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Volume Overview -- Highlights of 2009: The State's Responsibility and Citizens' Rights -- Part I Public Policy -- Green Growth Impacts of China's Financial Stimulus Package -- Calls for a Low-Carbon Economy: NPC Motions and CPPCC Proposals in 2009 -- Progress in Environmental Information Transparency -- Regulations on Environmental Impact Assessment for Plans: Breakthroughs and Limitations -- China's Role in International Climate Change Negotiations -- Part II Litigation -- Public Interest Litigation against Illegal Construction of Two Hydropower Stations on the Jinsha River -- Environmental Public Interest Litigation: Seven Experimental Case Studies -- Pollution Related Lawsuits Encounter Many Difficulties -- The Case of Yancheng Water Pollution: Problems in Judicature -- Part III Pollution and Health -- Alarming Environment and Health Incidents of 2009 -- Environmental Crisis in Rapidly Developing Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, and Shaanxi -- Hidden Environmental Troubles of Resource Development in China's Western Regions -- New Pollution in Rural Areas: The "Home Appliances to the Countryside" Program -- Part IV Consumption -- 2009: A Waste Crisis at a Crossroads -- Promoting Sustainable Consumption -- Extravagant Water Consumption in Beijing's New Bathhouses -- Restricted Use of Plastic Shopping Bags: The Way Out -- Part V Ecological Protection -- Organizational Transformations at Nature Reserves: An Analysis of Tourism Development in Jilin's Changbai Mountain -- Conservation Agreements: Incorporating Government-led and Community-based Initiatives -- Biodiversity in the Context of Climate Change -- Crafting a Successful Vision for Wild Giant Panda Protection -- Part VI Appendix -- Annual Indexes: Environmental Changes in China.

Terminological Glossary -- Index.