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The River Runs Black : The Environmental Challenge to China's Future / Elizabeth C. Economy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Council on Foreign Relations BookPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Second EditionDescription: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 1 mapContent type:
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  • 9780801449246
  • 9780801459443
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.70951 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Death of the Huai River -- Chapter 2. A Legacy of Exploitation -- Chapter 3. The Economic Explosion and Its Environmental Cost -- Chapter 4. The Challenge of Greening China -- Chapter 5. The New Politics of the Environment -- Chapter 6. The Devil at the Doorstep -- Chapter 7. Lessons from Abroad -- Chapter 8. Averting the Crisis -- Notes -- Index
Summary: China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development.Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, Economy traces the economic and political roots of China's environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China's current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control.The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China's response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country.This second edition of The River Runs Black is updated with information about events between 2005 and 2009, covering China's tumultuous transformation of its economy and its landscape as it deals with the political implications of this behavior as viewed by an international community ever more concerned about climate change and dwindling energy resources.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Death of the Huai River -- Chapter 2. A Legacy of Exploitation -- Chapter 3. The Economic Explosion and Its Environmental Cost -- Chapter 4. The Challenge of Greening China -- Chapter 5. The New Politics of the Environment -- Chapter 6. The Devil at the Doorstep -- Chapter 7. Lessons from Abroad -- Chapter 8. Averting the Crisis -- Notes -- Index

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China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development.Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, Economy traces the economic and political roots of China's environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China's current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control.The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China's response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country.This second edition of The River Runs Black is updated with information about events between 2005 and 2009, covering China's tumultuous transformation of its economy and its landscape as it deals with the political implications of this behavior as viewed by an international community ever more concerned about climate change and dwindling energy resources.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)