Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Volume 1 : Urban Challenges, Public Participation, and Natural Disasters.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (474 pages)
- Chinese Research Perspectives Series ; v.1 .
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Volume Overview General Report -- Environmental Degradation and the Water Crisis in Rural China: An Introduction -- Part One Special Focus: Natural and Unnatural Disasters -- Human Factors in Natural Disasters: Debris Flows, Droughts, and Floods -- Severe Geological Disasters during the 2010 Rainy Season -- Southwest China's Water Crisis: Rethinking the Urban Growth Mode -- ConocoPhillips Oil Spill and Eco-Disasters in the Bohai Bay -- Questioning the Chromium Slag Pollution Incident in Qujing -- The Dalian PX Incident: On Institutional Safeguards for Integrated Decision-Making in Environmental Protection -- Part Two Environmental Pollution and Ecological Protection -- The Environmental Degradation of the Yellow River -- An Urgent Call for Solutions to China's Heavy Metal Health Risk -- Xiaonanhai: Elegy for a Nature Reserve in the New Round of River Development -- Part Three Urban Environmental Issues and Livability -- Livability: A New Way of Thinking about Urbanization in China -- The Environmental Risks of Rapid Urbanization: Indicators for Livable Cities -- The Waste Crisis: Seeking a New Direction in the Dilemma -- 2010: A Restless Year for Environmental Policies on Packaging -- Resolving the "Garbage Siege" by Developing a Resource Reutilization Industry -- How Can Cities Be Free From Urban Flooding? -- Part Four Sustainable Consumption -- An Overview of China's Unsustainable Consumption in 2010 -- A New Round of Luxury Water Consumption: Artificial Snow Parks -- Golf Courses in Beijing and Ostentatious Water Use -- Investigation into the Pollution in Apple Inc.'s Supply Chain and a Call for Green Consumption -- Part Five Policy and Governance -- Garbage Problems and Solutions in Rural China. China's Environmental Law Fails to Effectively Ensure Fairness -- Why Didn't the MEP Sue the Zijin Mining Group? -- Environmental Information Disclosure Three Years after Implementation -- The Struggling Environmental Courts and Environmental Public-Interest Litigation -- Part Six Civil Society and Public Participation -- NGOs Play a Positive Role in Handling Shanghai Richina Leather Pollution -- Tiny Particle, Big Action: Public Participation in Environmental Management as Seen in the PM2.5 Case -- Number of "Green Citizens" Increase as Communities Participate in Social Affairs -- Part Seven China and the World in an Environmental Perspective -- Transgressing Global and Local: Environmental NGOs and China's Overseas Investment -- Improving China's Aid and Investment to Africa with a More Open Attitude -- Concerns for the Lancang-Mekong Lifeline -- Part Eight Appendix -- Annual Indexes: 2010 & -- 2011 Environmental Trends -- Terminological Glossary -- Index Terms.
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 combines two years of reports on China's environment from the view of civil society.