
The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 1 (2005) : Crisis and Breakthrough of China's Environment.
Title:
The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 1 (2005) : Crisis and Breakthrough of China's Environment.
Author:
Liang, Congjie.
ISBN:
9789047420156
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (497 pages)
Series:
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks: Environment ; v.1
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks: Environment
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
The voices of experts and witnesses from the People's Republic of China itself describing and commenting upon the environment and protection measures in the PRC in 2005, from the public perspective.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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