China's engine of environmental collapse /

"As the world hurtles towards environmental oblivion, China is leading the charge. The nation's CO2 emissions are more than twice those of the US with a GDP just two-thirds as large. China leads the world in renewable energy yet it is building new coal-fired power plants faster than renewa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Richard, Ph. D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, 2020.
Temas:
Environmental policy > China.
Authoritarianism > China.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Chine.
Autoritarisme > Chine.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics
Authoritarianism
Ecology
Economic history
Environmental policy
China > Environmental conditions.
China > Economic conditions.
Chine > Conditions économiques.
China
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A note on the names of rivers in this volume
  • Introduction : China as an environmental rogue state
  • 1. The "China price" : police-state capitalism and the great acceleration of global consumption
  • 2. "Blind growth" : scenes of planetary destruction from the twelfth Five-Year Plan
  • 3. The damage done : the poisoning of China's water, soil and foods
  • 4. Cooking the planet for what end?
  • 5. China's engine of environmental collapse
  • 6. Guanxi and the Game of Thrones : wealth, property, and insecurity in a lawless system
  • 7. Grabbing the emergency brake
  • 8. The next Chinese revolution
  • Appendix.

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