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Elizabeth C. Economy - The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China´s Future - 9780801476136 - V9780801476136
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The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China´s Future

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Description for The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China´s Future Paperback. Series: A Council on Foreign Relations Book. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.

China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development.

Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, 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 ... Read more

The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China's response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country.

This second edition of The River Runs Black is updated with information about events between 2005 and 2009, covering China's tumultuous transformation of its economy and its landscape as it deals with the political implications of this behavior as viewed by an international community ever more concerned about climate change and dwindling energy resources.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
A Council on Foreign Relations Book
Condition
New
Weight
523g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801476136
SKU
V9780801476136
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Elizabeth C. Economy
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. ... Read more

Reviews for The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China´s Future
According to The River Runs Black, an outstanding new book by Elizabeth Economy,... five of China's biggest rivers are 'not suitable for human contact.'... According to Economy, Li Xioping, executive producers of 'Focus,' a Chinese investigative news program, says peasants now come to the 'Focus' studios to beg them to investigate environmental problems caused by local officials.
Joshua Kurlantzick ... Read more

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