Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River Nature and Power in the People's Republic of China /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grumbine, R. Edward (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Subjects:
Sustainability.
Political science.
Environmental Law.
Environmental management.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Political Science.
Environmental Management.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Online Access:Texto Completo
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.

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