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...
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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press,
2012.
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Table des matières:
- 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.