Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River : Nature and Power in the People's Republic of China /
China's meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the country has been tapped to power exploding cities and factories-every river but one. Running through one of the richest natural areas in the world, the Nujiang's raging waters were on the verge of b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Highest Good
- Chapter 2: The Frontier and the Middle Kingdom
- Chapter 3: Under the Jade Dragon
- Chapter 4: Old Mountains, Young Parks
- Chapter 5: In the Land of Twelve Thousand Rice Fields
- Chapter 6: Into the Great Green Triangle
- Chapter 7: The Dragon Meets the Angry River
- Chapter 8: China 2020
- Chapter 9: Conservation with Chinese Characteristics
- Notes
- Quotation References
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index