The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Coggins, Christopher; Li, Yifei

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment offers a comprehensive exploration of China's environment through a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary lens. This volume presents China's environment as a series of interconnected temporal and spatial processes involving human agency and more-than-human dynamics. Contributions from leading scholars in social science, environmental science, and humanities focus on long-term environmental change, shifts in environmental perception, and the dynamic adaptations that have shaped China as both a nation and a mosaic of distinctive socio-ecological networks.

The handbook delves into the processes of human-environment relations that have shaped contemporary landscapes, ecosystems, and livelihoods within China's territorial boundaries, as well as global industrial and commercial processes affecting climate change and geopolitics worldwide. Each section of the book includes chapters that summarize key contributions to specific fields of environmental research, assess prevailing paradigms, and chart a course for future work, including calls for activist research that encourages collaborative engagement with the dynamic political, economic, ecological, and cultural processes shaping China's environment and policy.

Organized into four main sections, the handbook covers the long-term ecological transformation of China, biodiversity conservation and the social construction of nature, pressing environmental concerns in urbanizing China, and China's role in global sustainability. It provides a nuanced understanding of China's environmental challenges and achievements, emphasizing the need for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to address the complexities of China's environment.

The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and students seeking to understand the intricate processes shaping China's environment and its global impact.

Part 1: Past as Prelude: The Long Journey Toward Understanding China's Long-term Ecological Transformation
Part 2: Biodiversity and Wild Landscapes: Conservation and the Social Construction of Nature in Contemporary China
Part 3: Pressing Environmental Concerns in Urbanizing China
Part 4: Global China, the Biosphere, and Planetary Sustainability

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 658
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781036202521
• Artikelnr.: 75018912

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: China's Ecological Transformation: A Relational Approach -
Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
A Brief Geographic Sketch of China at the Dawn of the Third Millennium:
Mountains, Rivers, Basins, Plains, and Plateaus - Chris Coggins and Yifiei
Li
Part I. Past as Prelude-The Long Journey Toward Understanding Chinäs
Long-term Ecological Transformation
Part I Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Chapter 1. How Humans Have Transformed China's Biosphere - Brian Lander
Chapter 2. Forests in Imperial China - Ian M. Miller
Chapter 3. Deep Waters: Environmental Histories of China's Rivers and
Hydrological Resources - Ruth Mostern
Chapter 4. Farming with the Elements: Agronomy and Ecological Wisdom in
Early China - Jörg Henning Hüsemann
Chapter 5. Nature Through the Cartographer's Eye: Depictions of Natural
Elements in Ancient Chinese Maps - Han Zhaoqing
Chapter 6: Fengshui, Ecology, and the Fate of China's Subtropical Broadleaf
Evergreen Forest Biome - Chris Coggins
Chapter 7. Shifting Isohyet, Human Migrations and Inter-Asian Geographies
of China: Climate Refugees and Empire Builders in the 1200s - Dan Smyer Yü
Chapter 8. Development, Environment, and Ecosystem Resilience: Water and
Food in the People's Republic of China - Stevan Harrell
Part II. Biodiversity and Wild Landscapes-Conservation and the Social
Construction of Nature in Contemporary China
Part II Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Chapter 9. Animal Science, Rights, and Conservation in Republican China,
1911-1949 - David Pietz
Chapter 10. Wildlife in the Crossfire: The Legal and Ethical Challenges of
Conservation in China - Deborah Cao
Chapter 11. Global China and the Wildlife Trade: Impacts on Biodiversity,
Marine Ecosystems, and Racialized Public Health Risks - Jesse Rodenbiker
Chapter 12: The Resilience and Complexity of Tibetan Pastoralism: Language,
Livestock, and Ritual - Tracy Burnett
Chapter 13: Bureaucracy, Vulnerability, and Environmental Research -
Timothy McLellan
Chapter 14. One Size Does Not Fit All: Variable Community Interactions With
Protected Areas in China, and Implications for Conservation Management -
Heidi Ma, Sarah Papworth, Sam Turvey
CHAPTER 15: Evidence-based conservation management in China: understanding
decision-making for a Critically Endangered Chinese cetacean - Lisa
Mogensen, Zhigang Mei, Sam Turvey
Part III. Pressing Environmental Concerns in Urbanizing China Introduction
Part III Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Chapter 16. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in China's
Environmental Governance - Genia Kostka, Kyoung Shin
Chapter 17. Digital Mediation of Environmental Governance Through
Gamification of Sustainability Priorities: the Case of Ant Forest in China
- Ying Xu, Federico Caprotti
Chapter 18. China's Changing Ecocinema - Haomin Gong
Chapter 19. Teaching Digital Landscapes: Incorporating Virtual Reality to
Chinese Environmental Learning - Cheng Li
Chapter 20. Place-Based Earth and Environmental Education: Lessons from
Southern China and the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands - Lobsang Sonam, Tsering
Drolma, Chris Coggins, Nitas Syed
Chapter 21. Air Pollution Concerns: Spatial and temporal variability and
drivers - Liu Wenling, Zhu Yulin, Jiang Shujing, Jia Yunhao
Chapter 22. Co-Controlling Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases: Greening
Transportation in China - Hu Tao, Song Peng
Part IV. Global China, the Biosphere, and Planetary Sustainability
Part IV Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Chapter 23. Reactive Authoritarianism: Understanding the Caprices of
Chinese Environmental Governance - Yifei Li, Judith Shapiro
Chapter 24: Sino-US Hyper-competition in the climate crisis era: The case
of Critical Minerals - Sophia Kalantzakos
Chapter 25. Security, Climate Change, and the Politics of Vulnerability in
China - Eyck Freymann, Raymond H. Cai
Chapter 26. China's Climate Change Governance: Authoritarianism or
Alternative to Save the World? - Chunhong Sheng, Hanyue Hua
Chapter 27. Chinese ESG and Green Finance in the Belt and Road Initiative -
Ziwei Fan, Chun Kai Leung, David A. Palmer
Chapter 28. Eating the Quick and the Dead: On Feeding China's Cities -
Caroline Merrifield
Chapter 29. Socioecological Engineering in the Chinese Century - Annah Lake
Zhu