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China environment and development review : China's environment and development in the era of globalization / editor-in-chief, Zhang Xiao ; translated by Jin Jun & Liu Yusheng.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--China.
- Environmental policy.
- Sustainable development--China.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (481 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- China ; Reading, England : China Social Sciences Press : Paths International Ltd, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book focuses on China's role in international trade, along with the country's environmental concerns, by investigating the impact of globalization on sustainable development.Climate change has placed the world under a new dilemma, and commercial rationality that dominates the world cannot resolve such a dilemma.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Contributors""; ""Overview""; ""Challenges Posed by Globalization to Sustainable Development""; ""Part I: Globalization""; ""Thoughts on How to View Globalization""; ""Part II: Climate Change""; ""Public Issues Requiring Man's New Wisdom""; ""Opportunities and Challenges Posed by a Low Carbon Economy to China's Sustainable Development""; ""A Low Carbon Economy: Coping with Climate Change and Air Pollution""
- ""New Progress in International Climate Negotiations and Challenges Facing China's Low Carbon Economic Developrrent""""Effect Evaluation and Influential Factor Analysis of the International Transfer of Low Carbon Technology Based on Trade""; ""China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Evaluation of Scenario Research""; ""Coping with Climate Change: Enlightenment Offered by Arid Prairie Areas""; ""Coping with Challenges Posed by Climate Change: Safeguarding and Cherishing China's Rights to Development""; ""Part Ill: Globalization and China's Environment and Development""
- ""Thoughts on China's Energy Conservation and Emission Reductions""""Comparisons between the G20 Countries' Eco-efficiency: Analysis Based on the DEA Model""; ""Part IV: Trade and Sustainability""; ""Influences of International Trade on China's Energy Demands and Environmental Quality""; ""Influences of Free Trade on China's Sustainable Development""; ""Globalization: International Trade of China's Forestry Products and Ecological Environment Protection""; ""Copyright""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 4, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-84464-455-3
- OCLC:
- 920466019
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