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Urban challenges, public participation, and natural disasters /
This book was written and produced by China's first environmental non-profit organization, Friends of Nature. This edition of the book combines two years of reports on China's environment from the view of civil society. With a special focus on natural and unnatural disasters, the book also...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | Chinese Research Perspectives ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Volume Overview General Report; Environmental Degradation and the Water Crisis in Rural China: An Introduction; Part One Special Focus: Natural and Unnatural Disasters; Human Factors in Natural Disasters: Debris Flows, Droughts, and Floods; Severe Geological Disasters during the 2010 Rainy Season; Southwest China's Water Crisis: Rethinking the Urban Growth Mode ; ConocoPhillips Oil Spill and Eco-Disasters in the Bohai Bay; Questioning the Chromium Slag Pollution Incident in Qujing.
- The Dalian PX Incident: On Institutional Safeguards for Integrated Decision-Making in Environmental ProtectionPart Two Environmental Pollution and Ecological Protection; The Environmental Degradation of the Yellow River; An Urgent Call for Solutions to China's Heavy Metal Health Risk ; Xiaonanhai: Elegy for a Nature Reserve in the New Round of River Development; Part Three Urban Environmental Issues and Livability; Livability: A New Way of Thinking about Urbanization in China; The Environmental Risks of Rapid Urbanization: Indicators for Livable Cities.
- The Waste Crisis: Seeking a New Direction in the Dilemma2010: A Restless Year for Environmental Policies on Packaging; Resolving the "Garbage Siege" by Developing a Resource Reutilization Industry; How Can Cities Be Free From Urban Flooding?; Part Four Sustainable Consumption; An Overview of China's Unsustainable Consumption in 2010; A New Round of Luxury Water Consumption: Artificial Snow Parks ; Golf Courses in Beijing and Ostentatious Water Use; Investigation into the Pollution in Apple Inc.'s Supply Chain and a Call for Green Consumption; Part Five Policy and Governance.
- Garbage Problems and Solutions in Rural ChinaChina's Environmental Law Fails to Effectively Ensure Fairness; Why Didn't the MEP Sue the Zijin Mining Group?; Environmental Information Disclosure Three Years after Implementation; The Struggling Environmental Courts and Environmental Public-Interest Litigation; Part Six Civil Society and Public Participation; NGOs Play a Positive Role in Handling Shanghai Richina Leather Pollution; Tiny Particle, Big Action: Public Participation in Environmental Management as Seen in the PM2.5 Case.
- Number of "Green Citizens" Increase as Communities Participate in Social AffairsPart Seven China and the World in an Environmental Perspective; Transgressing Global and Local: Environmental NGOs and China's Overseas Investment; Improving China's Aid and Investment to Africa with a More Open Attitude ; Concerns for the Lancang-Mekong Lifeline; Part Eight Appendix; Annual Indexes: 2010 & 2011 Environmental Trends; Terminological Glossary ; Index Terms.