Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know®

305 Pages·2018·2.328 MB·English

by  Daniel K. Gardner

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
IN CHINA
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW®

ENVIRONMENTAL
POLLUTION IN CHINA
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW®
DANIEL K. GARDNER
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Gardner, Daniel K., 1950– author.
Title: Environmental pollution in China : what everyone needs to know /
Daniel K. Gardner.
Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017036679 (print) | ISBN 9780190696115 (hbk.) |
ISBN 9780190696122 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780190696139 (updf) |
ISBN 9780190696146 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Pollution—China. | Environmental policy—China.
Classification: LCC TD187.5.C6 G37 2018 | DDC 363.730951—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036679
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CONTENTS
Part I: Setting the Scene
1. Overview  3
2. Historical Background  15
3. Economic Development and the Environment  31
4. China’s New Consumerism  43
Part II: The Polluted Environment
5. What’s Happening to China’s Air?  59
6. Water Contamination and Water Scarcity  75
7. Soil Pollution and Agriculture  93
8. Pollution and Public Health  105
9. China’s Pollution and the World  119
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Part III: Responding to Environmental Pollution
10. Pollution and the Public Response  137
11. The State and Environmental Pollution  165
12. The Search for Cleaner Energy  189
Epilogue: The Environmental Challenge
in the 21st Century  213
NOTES 223
SELECTED READINGS  247
INDEX  273
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
IN CHINA
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW®

Part I
SETTING THE SCENE