Green China Chinese insights on environment and development
Edited by James Keeley and Zheng Yisheng
First published by International Institute for Environment and Development (UK) in 2011
The book is divided into five parts.
Part One offers an overview of some of the majorenvironmental problems in
China, including pollution (Ch. 2), declining forest quality (Ch. 3), grassland
deterioration in Inner Mongolia (Ch.4), ecological reconstruction (Ch. 5),
water scarcity(Ch. 6), and climate change (Ch. 7). Part Two contains case
studies of conservation in protected areas (Ch. 8), human disturbances of
old-growth forests (Ch. 9), and the relationship between the protection of
cultural and biological diversity (Ch. 10). Part Three focuses on the role
institution and policies have played in environmental management in China.
These articles examine the rule of law in China from an environmental
perspective (Ch. 11), investment policies (Ch. 12), national targets for
environmental protection and the roles of public and private spending in
meeting them (Ch. 13), and the state of research and practice in green GDP
accounting (Ch. 14). In Part Four,we present five articles that discuss
theoretical and methodological issues, including those relating to green
economic accounting (Ch. 15), the economics and the ethics of consumerism (Ch.
16), equity in the distribution of natural capital (Ch. 17), China’s water
crisis and water footprints linked to international trade (Ch. 18), and a legal
analysis of water rights (Ch. 19). The fifth and final part of the book
highlights the importance of civil society and NGOs to China’s environment and
development, with a historical review of environmental NGOs in China (Ch. 20)…
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