Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- China's Environmental Protection at the Crossroads -- Part One Focal Issues -- "Environmental Impact Assessment"-A Storm Stirs in 2005 -- Warnings and Lessons from the Songhua River Toxic Spill Crisis -- Hard-won Progress in Protecting Environmental Rights -- "The Yuanmingyuan Park Lake Incident" and Its Impact on Public Awareness -- Highly Controversial Hydropower Development in Western China -- Avian Influenza Lands in China -- Memorandum Concerning the Asian Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd (APP) Incident -- Different Voices in the Debate on "Revering Nature" -- Part Two Special Reports -- Using Public Policy to Promote the Cradle-to-cradle Economy -- China's Water Crisis -- The Shadow of Environmental Pollution in China -- Policy Options for China's Sustainable Energy Development -- Ecological Recovery: Believing in Nature -- Land Resource Protection and Management in China -- "Great Leap Forward"-style Rush to Urbanize Puts Environment in the Spotlight -- A Fragile Balance: Observations on Protecting Biodiversity -- Development of Environmental NGOs in China -- Diverse Approaches to Environmental Education by Chinese NGOs -- Part Three Case Studies -- The 26 Degrees Campaign: Saving Energy -- Electric Vehicles and Autos with Small Engines: Should We Ban or Promote Them? -- The Obsession with Harvesting Cordycep Mushrooms in the Three Rivers Source Area -- The Green Hanjiang River NGO Helps Resolve a Trans-boundary River Pollution Problem -- Safeguarding Environmental Rights: Activist Efforts by Residents of Beijing's Baiwang Jiayuan Neighborhood -- Dongwu Banner County Paper Mill: Polluting and Violating Legal Rights -- Jisha in Yunnan: Environmental and Cultural Protection in the Development of Tourism -- Alxa SEE Association: A New Initiative by Entrepreneurs.

Countering the Incursion of Genetically Modified Food into China -- Community-Based Sustainable Living: Cases in Beijing -- Postscript.