China and the Environment: The Green Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781780323404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str.

Sam Geall

Opis

Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change. But how are Chinese people really coming to grips with environmental problems? This book provides access to otherwise unknown stories of environmental activism and forms the first real-life account of China and its environmental tensions.
"China and the Environment" provides a unique report on the experiences of participatory politics that have emerged in response to environmental problems, rather than focusing only on macro-level ecological issues and their elite responses. Featuring previously untranslated short interviews, extracts from reports and other translated primary documents, the authors argue that going green in China isn't just about carbon targets and energy policy; China's grassroots green defenders are helping to change the country for the better.

Spis treści

Introduction: The return of Chinese civil society - Isabel Hilton 1. China's environmental journalists: a rainbow confusion - Sam Geall 2. The birth of Chinese environmentalism: key campaigns - Olivia Boyd 3. The Yangzonghai case: struggling for environmental justice - Adam Moser 4. Alchemy of a protest: the case of Xiamen PX - Jonathan Ansfield 5. Defending Tiger Leaping Gorge - Liu Jianqiang