Chinese research perspectives on the environment. Volume 1, Urban challenges, public participation, and natural disasters /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013. |
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| Description: | xxi, 452 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9127910 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Volume Overview General Report
- Environmental Degradation and the Water Crisis in Rural China: An Introduction
- Part I. Special Focus: Natural and Unnatural Disasters
- 1. Human Factors in Natural Disasters: Debris Flows, Droughts, and Floods
- 2. Severe Geological Disasters during the 2010 Rainy Season
- 3. Southwest China's Water Crisis: Rethinking the Urban Growth Mode
- 4. ConocoPhillips Oil Spill and Eco-Disasters in the Bohai Bay
- 5. Questioning the Chromium Slag Pollution Incident in Qujing
- 6. The Dalian PX Incident: On Institutional Safeguards for Integrated Decision-Making in Environmental Protection
- Part II. Environmental Pollution and Ecological Protection
- 7. The Environmental Degradation of the Yellow River
- 8. An Urgent Call for Solutions to China's Heavy Metal Health Risk
- 9. Xiaonanhai: Elegy for a Nature Reserve in the New Round of River Development: Friends of Nature
- Part III. Urban Environmental Issues and Livability
- 10. Livability: A New Way of Thinking about Urbanization in China
- 11. The Environmental Risks of Rapid Urbanization: Indicators for Livable Cities
- 12. The Waste Crisis: Seeking a New Direction in the Dilemma
- 13. 2010: A Restless Year for Environmental Policies on Packaging
- 14. Resolving the "Garbage Siege" by Developing a Resource Reutilization Industry -
- 15. How Can Cities Be Free From Urban Flooding?
- Part IV. Sustainable Consumption
- 16. An Overview of China's Unsustainable Consumption in 2010
- 17. A New Round of Luxury Water Consumption: Artificial Snow Parks
- 18. Golf Courses in Beijing and Ostentatious Water Use
- 19. Investigation into the Pollution in Apple Inc's Supply Chain and a Call for Green Consumption
- Part V. Policy and Governance
- 20. Garbage Problems and Solutions in Rural China
- 21. China's Environmental Law Fails to Effectively Ensure Fairness
- 22. Why Didn't the MEP Sue the Zijin Mining Group?
- 23. Environmental Information Disclosure Three Years after Implementation
- 24. The Struggling Environmental Courts and Environmental Public-Interest Litigation
- Part VI. Civil Society and Public Participation
- 25. NGOs Play a Positive Role in Handling Shanghai Richina Leather Pollution
- 26. Tiny Particle, Big Action: Public Participation in Environmental Management as Seen in the PM 25 Case
- 27. Number of "Green Citizens" Increase as Communities Participate in Social Affairs
- Part VII. China and the World in an Environmental Perspective
- 28. Transgressing Global and Local: Environmental NGOs and China's Overseas Investment
- 29. Improving China's Aid and Investment to Africa with a More Open Attitude
- 30. Concerns for the Lancang-Mekong Lifeline
- Part VIII. Appendix
- Annual Indexes: 2010 & 2011 Environmental Trends
- Terminological Glossary
- Index Terms
