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  • Annual Report on China’s Response to Climate Change (2017)

    Implementing The Paris Agreement

    Edited by Weiguang Wang, Yaming Liu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is written by experts from Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and National Climate Center, this book provides an overview of China’s effort to implement the Paris Agreement. In addition to measures put in place to reduce runoff in cities, improve flood risk management, promote decarbonization, and combat desertification, the book also ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • China's Climate Change Policies

    by Wang Weiguang, Guoguang Zheng, Jiahua Pan ...
    China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs. Both internationally and within China itself, people have great expectations of its future role. This book aims to clarify many aspects of China’s key position in the climate change situation and policy debates. However, limited by its development stage, natural resource endowment, and other unbalanced developing issues, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • China Urbanizes: Consequences, Strategies, And Policies

    by Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony ...
    The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban population of 560 million. How China copes with such a large migration flow will strongly influence ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Greening of Asia

    The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency

    by Mark Clifford ...
    One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand are doing to build businesses that will lessen the environmental impact of Asia's extraordinary economic growth. Dirty air, foul water, and hellishly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • China Fast Forward

    The Technologies, Green Industries and Innovations Driving the Mainland's Future

    by Bill Dodson ...
    Will China Surpass the United States as an innovation nation?China is tirelessly working to overcome its technological deficiencies by driving R&D initiatives in government and business and adapting Western Internet platforms for domestic use. It is extending its technological reach through a major drive to rival India as a services outsourcing leader and projecting its high-tech brands into the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Building Engines For Growth And Competitiveness In China: Experience With Special Economic Zones And Industrial Clusters

    by Zeng Douglas Zhihua ...
    In the past 30 years, China has achieved an unprecedented development "miracle" in human history. How did China achieve this? What are the key drivers for such a rapid growth? And most importantly, what can be learned from China's success? While many factors could be identified to explain China's success, it is no doubt that the numerous Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and industrial clusters that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Green Innovation in China

    China's Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

    by Joanna Lewis ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    As the greatest coal-producing and consuming nation in the world, China would seem an unlikely haven for wind power. Yet the country now boasts a world-class industry that promises to make low-carbon technology more affordable and available to all. Conducting an empirical study of China's remarkable transition and the possibility of replicating their model elsewhere, Joanna I. Lewis adds greater ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East Asia

    Edited by Jusen Asuka, Dan Jin ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This is an open access book.The subject of this book is to provide down-to-earth information on what kind of actions are being taken by the Government, Local community, Businesses, Researchers, NGOs on the energy transition in this region. It gives an updated picture of the energy transition in the East Asian countries, where the economic growth, as well as CO2 emission growth, is significant.This ... Read more

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  • Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy

    Fifteen Contentious Questions

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown, Scott V. Valentine ...
    A balanced examination of global energy issues.Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy questions from a variety of perspectives, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • China's Engine of Environmental Collapse

    by Richard Smith ...
    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 renewables. The country's lakes, rivers, and farmlands are severely polluted yet China's police state can't suppress ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue Skies over Beijing

    Economic Growth and the Environment in China

    by Siqi Zheng, Matthew E. Kahn ...
    How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most polluted cities in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • China Dream And The China Path, The

    by Tianyong Zhou ...
    Series Book 4 - Series On Chinese Economics Research
    Since its reform and opening up, China has experienced unprecedented social and economic development. It is important to understand the biggest and fastest growing economy's policy and strategy. As a key director in Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the author proposes a development path and reform strategies for China in the next three decades.This book ... Read more

    $35.99 USD