Richard Louis Edmonds (ed.)

Patterns of China's Lost Harmony

A Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection
Herausgeber: Edmonds, Richard Louis

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Produktbeschreibung

The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades. With rapid demographic and economic growth, the current state of degradation has antecedents beginning hundreds of years ago. Patterns of China's Lost Harmony combines historical documentation with contemporary assessment to determine the degree of human impact upon the country's vegetation, soils, water, air and wildlife. This will serve as an important reference tool for understanding the historical scope of environmental degradation and for assessing attempts to control environmental degradation since the 1980s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780415104784
• ISBN-10: 0415104785
• Artikelnr.: 25683303

Autorenporträt

Richard Louis Edmonds

Inhaltsangabe

1 THE NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN CHINA 2 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
IN CHINAS PAST 3 VEGETATION REDUCTION IN CHINA SINCE 1949 4 SOIL EROSION,
FLOODS AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN MINORITY AREAS PATTERNS OF CHINAS
LOST HARMONY 5 DESERTIFICATION, GRASSLAND DEGRADATION, WATER SHORTAGES AND
SALINISATION-ALKALISATION 6 WATER, SOIL AND SOLID WASTE POLLUTION 8 NATURE
CONSERVATION 9 A REGIONAL AND GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL
PROBLEMS 10 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY- PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE