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The Yellow River : the problem of water in modern China / David A. Pietz.
LIBRA TD424.4.C6 P54 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pietz, David Allen, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water--Purification.
- Water--Pollution.
- Yellow River (China).
- North China Plain (China).
- Water--Pollution--China.
- Water.
- Water--Purification--China.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects--China.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects.
- China.
- China--North China Plain.
- China--Yellow River.
- Physical Description:
- x, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- On the ecological margins
- Management and mismanagement in the imperial period
- Transforming the land of famine
- Making the water run clear
- Creating a garden on the North China Plain
- Managing legacies, managing growth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674058248
- 0674058240
- OCLC:
- 875999602
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