Elizabeth C. Economy

The River Runs Black (eBook, ePUB)

The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780801458200
• Artikelnr.: 49448526

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth C. Economy is C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is coeditor of China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects and The Internationalization of Environmental Protection. She has published articles and opinion pieces in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, among others. She consults regularly for the U.S. government on issues related to China and the environment and is a frequent television and radio commentator on U.S.-China relations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Death of the Huai River2. A Legacy of Exploitation3. The Economic
Explosion and Its Environmental Cost4. The Challenge of Greening China5.
The New Politics of the Environment6. The Devil and the Doorstep7. Lessons
from Abroad8. Avoiding the CrisisNotesIndex