China's Environmental Crisis Domestic and Global Political Impacts and Responses

Name: China's Environmental Crisis Domestic and Global Political Impacts and Responses
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ISBN: 9780230106642

ISBN-10: 0230106641

ISBN-13: 9780230106642

Edition: 2010

Authors: Joel Jay Kassiola, Sujian Guo

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This wide-ranging and path-breaking collection of essays on Chinars"s environmental crisis takes a new approach, transcending the typical "gloom and doom" media and scholarly report on Chinars"s environmental crisis, to address how the Chinese political and social systems were impacted and how they responded, or should respond, to the ecological challenges confronting China. Therefore, this collection provides innovative analyses about the impacts and responses'”both domestically and globally'”of Chinars"s political and social systems encompassing its social values, ameliorative, and preventative policies. It leaves us with such an important question to ponder: What social action will be…

Book details

List price: $121.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 227
Size: 5.74" wide x 8.38" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction: China's Environmental Crisis-A Global Crisis with Chinese Characteristics: From Confucius to Cell Phones




Current Ecological Conditions and Public Policies in China: Desertification, Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Food Security



Desertification in China: Problems with Policies and Perceptions




Network Public Management and the Challenge of Biodiversity Management in China




Changing Climate? China's New Interest in Global Climate Change Negotiations




Environmental Degradation and Food Security Policies in China




The Formation and Policy Influences of ENGOs (Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations) in China



State and Society in China's Environmental Politics




Responding to Climate Disaster: The Cosmopolitan Challenge to China




Environmentally Caused Social Change in China: New Media Technologies and Traditional Confucian Values Updated



Digital Power: Public Participation in an Environmental Controversy




Confucianizing Modernity and "Modernizing" Confucianism: Environmentalism and The Need for a Confucian Positive Argument for Social Change



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