Environmental pollution in China : what everyone needs to know / Daniel K. Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Daniel K., 1950- author.

Series:

What everyone needs to know.

What everyone needs to know

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollution--China.

Pollution.

Environmental policy--China.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has grown on average nearly 10% annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty years ago, the Flying Pigeon bicycle ruled the roads; today, China is the world's largest car market. And if 40 years ago you looked out across the Huangpu River from the Bund in Shanghai, you would have seen farmland and a few warehouses and wharves; now you see the stunning, futuristic cityscape of Pudong. The material progress of the past 40 years has been staggering - a source of pride for the Chinese people, as well as a source of legitimacy for the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

Contents:

An overview

Setting the scene, some historical background

Economic development since the late 20th century

China's new consumerism

What's happening to China's air?

Water contamination and water scarcity

Soil pollution and agriculture

Pollution and public health

China's pollution/environment and the world

Pollution and the Chinese public

The state and environmental pollution

The search for cleaner energy.

Notes:

Description based on publisher information.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-069614-1

0-19-756954-4

0-19-069613-3