Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Volume 3 written by LIU Jianqiang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment (formerly the China Environment Yearbook) includes selected articles from the 2013 annual environmental report compiled by Friends of Nature, a leading environmental protection NGO in China, with contributions from academics, environmental protection activists, public service activists, and the media. In this volume, readers are brought up to date on the main environmental issues and events of 2012, including environmental health, dams and cross-border water issues, a rise in environmental awareness and public action in China, sustainable consumption, and heavy metal pollution. Air pollution control has continued to attract attention from the public, media, academics, and government. This volume also discusses the controversy of the revision of the Environmental Protection Law. Like other volumes in the Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment series, this one aims to record, evaluate, and reflect on China’s current environmental conditions.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment written by Dongping Yang and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Volume 6 written by Jianqiang Liu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment 2014 features soundly researched articles on recent developments in China in water and air pollution and their health impact, environmental NGOs, environmental legislation and species protection, and the environmental consequences of poor urban planning.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Special Volume written by Xiao Zhang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Security in China provides readers an overview of issues China faces in environmental security. Contributors examine what air, water, soil pollution, grassland degradation, GM food, climate change, and energy dependence mean for China’s national security.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Volume 9 written by Jianqiang Liu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment series is a translation of selections from the 2015 or the 10th edition of the Annual Report on Environment Development of China. Friends of Nature, which has been organizing the writing and compilation of the Annual Report, is the first and continues to be one of the most influential Chinese environmental NGO. Articles in the current volume, written by a group of academics, independent scholars, activists and journalists cover recent development in a host of environment-related issues in China, including air pollution control, plans and policies on coal consumption, recent developments in environmental criminal justice, China's role in Antarctic marine conservation, among other topics.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment written by Yisheng Zheng and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Environment and Development Review offers an account of the social, economic, institutional and technological factors behind China's worsening environmental conditions and an evolutionary perspective on efforts both to understand and to address these growing problems.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Special Volume written by Ye QI and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special volume in the Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment series, this English-language volume is an edited collection of articles from the Chinese-language volume of The Annual Review of Low-Carbon Development in China (2011-2012). This is a pioneering volume on China's low-carbon development efforts, challenges, plans, trends, and policy recommendations, all based on research conducted by the Climate Policy Initiative at Tsinghua University, China. In this work, key results in China's 11th Five-Year Plan are explored by reviewing China's performance against targets, while the implementation of key policies and institutions are described with a focus on the effectiveness of low-carbon development policies in China during the period of 2005-2010. In addition, focus is placed on key indicators of low-carbon development such as energy consumption, CO2 emission, and low-carbon technologies. It discusses issues ranging from the low-carbon transformation of China’s economy to innovative low-carbon technologies, from low-carbon financing and incentive policies to changes in the business sector and consumer behaviors. The compilation offers not only insights on facts, but also introduces discussion on some of the more controversial issues China faces as it works to meet climate and energy challenges up through 2020.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Special Volume written by Wang Weiguang and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special volume in the ‘Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment’ series, this English-language volume is an edited collection of articles selected from the Chinese-language ‘Annual Report on Actions to Address Climate Change (2012): Climate Finance and Low Carbon Development’. This volume provides information on how China views the challenge of climate change and seeks to rectify the extraordinary confusion found in the West on China’s green energy future and its larger perspectives on this extraordinarily crucial topic. Contributors in this volume provide a bigger picture of international negotiations on climate change; discuss China’s national actions on green energy and sustainability and how national policies are implemented at the local level; and examine challenges and potential of developing green energy resources in China.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Special Volume written by Yisheng Zheng and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Environment and Development Review offers an account of the social, economic, institutional and technological factors behind China’s worsening environmental conditions and an evolutionary perspective on efforts both to understand and to address these growing problems.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on Society Volume 3 written by Peilin LI and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume update readers on developments in areas such as income and consumption, industrial transformation and the job market, social security, healthcare, education, quality of life and the influence of the Internet on people and society.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Volume 1 written by Dongping Yang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written and produced by China's first environmental non-profit organization, Friends of Nature. This edition of the book combines two years of reports on China's environment from the view of civil society. With a special focus on natural and unnatural disasters, the book also covers the themes of pollution and ecological protection, urban environmental issues and livability, sustainable consumption, policy and governance, civil society and public participation, and China and the world in an environmental perspective. In this volume, readers are brought up to date on the main environmental issues and events of 2010 and 2011. Beginning in 2010, debris flows, landslides, and droughts brought about considerable debate on the human factors involved in "natural disasters" and on China's urban growth mode.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Volume 1 written by Dongping YANG and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment (formerly The China Environment Yearbook), Volume 1, was written and produced by China’s first environmental non-profit organization, Friends of Nature. This edition of the book combines two years of reports on China's environment from the view of civil society. With a special focus on natural and unnatural disasters, the book also covers the themes of pollution and ecological protection, urban environmental issues and livability, sustainable consumption, policy and governance, civil society and public participation, and China and the world in an environmental perspective. In this volume, readers are brought up to date on the main environmental issues and events of 2010 and 2011. Beginning in 2010, debris flows, landslides, and droughts brought about considerable debate on the human factors involved in “natural disasters” and on China’s urban growth mode. The concept of urban livability is discussed within the backdrop of the waste and water crises. Several environmental incidents, including the Bohai Bay oil spill and the chromium slag pollution incident in Qujing, are also explored within the book. Meanwhile, increased public participation and environmental information transparency give reason for hope. Other articles include research and analysis on China’s investments in Africa, its struggling environmental courts, public interest litigation, the controversial Xiaonanhai dam and others on the Mekong River, green supply chains, and the PM2.5 debate.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on Education Volume 3 written by Dongping Yang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development, Volume 3 informs the Western readers of the current educational development in policy, practice, and research in China.
Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment Special Volume written by WANG Weiguang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special volume in the Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment series, this English-language volume is an edited collection of articles selected from the Chinese-language Annual Report on Actions to Address Climate Change (2012): Climate Finance and Low Carbon Development. This volume provides information on how China views the challenge of climate change and seeks to rectify the extraordinary confusion found in the West on China’s green energy future and its larger perspectives on this extraordinarily crucial topic. Contributors in this volume provide a bigger picture of international negotiations on climate change; discuss China’s national actions on green energy and sustainability and how national policies are implemented at the local level; and examine challenges and potential of developing green energy resources in China.
Download or read book Chinese Environmental Law written by Yuhong Zhao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has industrialized and urbanized at unprecedented scale and speed since its economic take-off began in the 1980s. It has become the world's second largest economy, but pollution has pushed the environment to the limits of its carrying capacity. Chinese Environmental Law provides a comprehensive and structured analysis of the increasingly sophisticated Chinese environmental legal regime. It examines the regulation of pollution in detail, covering key environmental statutes, policies and plans, and investigates judicial innovation in the interpretation and application of environmental legal instruments. The book presents Chinese environmental law in action and in context. By discussing key institutions and processes, readers will understand the operation of the environmental law and policy, the dynamic interactions between state and non-state actors, and the special challenges to the implementation and enforcement of environmental law in the socio-economic and political context of China.
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Download or read book The China Environment Yearbook Volume 3 written by Dongping Yang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The China Environment Yearbook, produced by China's preeminent environmental organization Friends of Nature, has established itself as the standard source for on-the-ground civil society perspectives about environmental issues in China. The third English language volume in the series brings readers up to date on the main issues and events in 2007. These include national debates about water and air pollution, the Lake Tai algae crisis, the environmental protests in the city of Xiamen, challenges faced by those planning a “green” Olympics in Beijing for 2008, and the adverse impact of global climate change. The research and analysis contained in the volume depicts the broader patterns of an emerging environmental politics in China - a more assertive and restive citizenry in environmental affairs, the rise of interest groups, and international influences on domestic policy debates. The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 3 is an indispensable source for scholars and policy makers concerned about how China's environmental policies and practices will affect its own future and the future of the earth.
