Daniel Gardner (Smith College Professor of History)

Environmental Pollution in China

What Everyone Needs to KnowÂ(R)

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Produktbeschreibung

China's economy has grown remarkably quickly in recent decades and is now the second largest in the world-but prosperity has come at great environmental cost. Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) examines the nature of the country's pollution crisis, the Chinese people's response to it, and the efforts by the state to tackle it.

Produktdetails

• What Everyone Needs to Know
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 137mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780190696122
• ISBN-10: 0190696125
• Artikelnr.: 49783206

Autorenporträt

Daniel K. Gardner is the D.W. Morrow Professor of History at Smith and the author of several books on China, including Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: An Overview
Chapter 2: Setting the Scene, Some Historical Background
Chapter 3: Economic Development Since the Late 20th Century
Chapter 4: China's New Consumerism
Chapter 5: What's Happening to China's Air?
Chapter 6: Water Contamination and Water Scarcity
Chapter 7: Soil Pollution and Agriculture
Chapter 8: Pollution and Public Health
Chapter 9: China's Pollution/Environment and the World
Chapter 10: Pollution and the Chinese Public
Chapter 11: The State and Environmental Pollution
Chapter 12: The Search for Cleaner Energy
Epilogue: The Environmental Challenge in the 21st Century
Selected Readings