River Runs Black The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

Name: River Runs Black The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
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ISBN: 9780801476136

ISBN-10: 0801476135

ISBN-13: 9780801476136

Edition: 2nd 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Elizabeth C. Economy

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China's spectacular economic growth over the past quarter-century has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development. This second edition is updated with information about events during the past five years of China's tumultuous transformation of its economy and its landscape as it deals with the political implications of this behavior as viewed by…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100



Acknowledgments



The Death of the Huai River



A Legacy of Exploitation



The Economic Explosion and Its Environmental Cost



The Challenge of Greening China



The New Politics of the Environment



The Devil at the Doorstep



Lessons from Abroad



Averting the Crisis


Notes


Index