Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Guo, Sujian; Zhang, Jijiao; Kassiola, Joel J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of 'western grand development' strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable use of biodiversity resources as a result of growing interaction between human activities and natural environment. To meet the challenges, governments in these regions need to adopt a series of important policy measures, not only to reduce industrial emissions, but also to return farmland to forests and pasture to grasslands and to implement measures of ecological migration to reduce human activities in ecological conservation areas. In this regard, China must not only learn profound lessons from industrialized countries but also search for international cooperation. The United States provides some good comparative case studies on the environmental protection, grassroots environmental management, and conservation policies in western regions This book attempts to address key questions about Chinese and U.S. environmental policies by looking at historical development of environmental protection and current environmental policy in the western regions of the two countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461633389
• Artikelnr.: 38406814

Autorenporträt

Sujian Guo is professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for U.S.-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University, with concurrent appointments as associate dean and distinguished professor at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University, China. Joel J. Kassiola is dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. Jijiao Zhang is professor in the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and founder and chair of the Commission on Enterprise Anthropology, China.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Ecological and Environmental Challenges in China's
Western Regions
Part 2 Part 1: Lessons from the U.S. Experience for China
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: American Agricultural Conservation as a National
Policy: Lessons from the U. S. for China's Great West Development
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Grassroots Environmental Management in the Western
United States: Can it be a Model for Success for Western China
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Values Conflict in American Environmental Federalism,
with Implications for China
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Urban Growth Control and Farmland Preservation in West
China
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Archaeological Site Management as Environmental Policy
in U.S. and China: Implications for Western Expansion in China
Part 8 Part 2: Chinese Environmental Policy and Experience
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Environmental Consciousness Change: A Comparative
Study of USA and PRC (1950-2008)
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Urban Environmental Protection Policies and their
Effects in China
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Ecological and Environmental Migration in China:
Policy and Practice
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: "Cities Besieged by Garbage" and Counter-measures for
Environmental Protection in Western Cities: A Case Study of Solid Waste
Classification in Kunming
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Ecological Migration Practices and the Placement of
Migrants and its Impact on Poverty Alleviation and Development: A Case
Study of the Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County Guangxi