Managing the Chinese Environment

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829635-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

In the coming decades environmental issues will play an increasing role in China's economic development drive, internal politics, legal development, international relations, and regional development issues. While several books have appeared in the 1990s which describe tangible aspects of China's environmental degradation, this book concentrates its attention on management of China's environment within various contexts and represents the state of thinking on the subject by some of the world's key social scientists in this field. It contains an international perspective of environmental problems in China often lacking in books about the Chinese environment. Chapters discuss environmental degradation in Chinese history, organisation of China's environmental protection network, the legal framework for environmental protection, agricultural land issues, water issues, biodiversity, energy, pollution, public health, and business opportunities for foreign firms. While this book shows that there is lots of room for optimism, it also indicates that many environmental problems remain intractable and some are worsening.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmonds, Richard Louis

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- The Environmental Legacy of Imperial China

- The Organization of Environmental Protection in China

- Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China: The Face of Domestic Law

- China: Environmental Protection, Domestic Policy Trends, Patterns of Participation in Regimes and Compliance with International Norms

- China's Land Resources, Environment, and Agricultural Production

- Is China Living on the Water Margin?

- Environmental Issues and the SouthNorth Water Transfer Scheme

- Recent Trends in Forestry and Conservation of Biodiversity in China

- China's Energy and Resource Uses: Continuity and Change

- Industrial Pollution in China and Remedial Policies

- Population, Public Health, and the Environment in China

- Business Opportunities for Foreign Firms related to China's Environment

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Louis Edmonds is Senior Lecturer in Geography with reference to China at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London. Previously Director of the Contemporary China Institute at SOAS he is also Editor of The China Quarterly.