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  • China's Water Pollution Problems

    de Claudio Delang ...
    Water pollution is one of the most serious problems plaguing China today with millions of citizens drinking water unfit for consumption. These abysmal conditions have fuelled increasing social discontent, as people become more concerned by the need to address the pressing issues of water pollution, scarcity, and waste management.This book describes how and why China has ended up in such a dire ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Living at the Edge of Thai Society

    The Karen in the Highlands of Northern Thailand

    de Claudio Delang ...
    Series series Rethinking Southeast Asia
    The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological study of the Karen for over a decade and looks at such key issues as history, ethnic ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Measuring Welfare beyond Economics

    The genuine progress of Hong Kong and Singapore

    de Claudio O. Delang, Yi Hang Yu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    Dissatisfaction with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of a country’s development or a population’s wellbeing led to the development of the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). The GPI is an aggregate index of over 20 economic, social and environmental indicators, and accounts for both the welfare benefits of economic growth, and the social and environmental costs which accompany that ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • China's Air Pollution Problems

    de Claudio O. Delang ...
    China’s rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems as well as tremendous environmental degradation.China’s Air Pollution Problems provides an overview of air pollution in China describing how and why China has ended up in such a dire situation, what ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • China's Soil Pollution and Degradation Problems

    de Claudio O. Delang ...
    China’s air pollution is infamous. The haze can make it impossible to see buildings across the street, and the pollution forces schools to close and creates health and morbidity problems, in addition to tremendous environmental degradation. However, China also faces another important environmental problem, which is less well-known to the public: that of soil degradation and pollution. This book ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • China’s Grain for Green Program

    A Review of the Largest Ecological Restoration and Rural Development Program in the World

    de Zhen Yuan, Claudio O. Delang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive review of Grain for Green, China’s nationwide program which pays farmers to revert sloping or marginal farm land to trees or grass. The program aims to improve the ecological conditions of much of China, and the socioeconomic circumstances of hundreds of millions of people. GfG is the largest reforestation, ecological restoration, and rural development initiative ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Ecological Succession on Fallowed Shifting Cultivation Fields

    A Review of the Literature

    de Claudio O. Delang, Wing Man Li ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book reviews the literature on the ecological succession of plants on fallowed swiddens in tropical forests. Patterns of ecological succession in tropical forests are insufficiently understood, partly because results are scattered through a large number of case studies reported in academic articles. So far, no publication has attempted to bring these different case studies together to identify ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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    Edición de Sumana Bandyopadhyay, André Torre, Paulo Casaca, Tomaz Dentinho ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
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  • The Governance of Energy in China

    Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

    de P. Andrews-Speed ...
    Series series Energy, Climate and the Environment
    The way in which energy is governed in China is driving its rising level of carbon dioxide emissions. This book analyses the nature of energy governance in China by combining ideas relating to transition management with institutionalist theories, which helps to identify factors which assist or constrain the country's path to a low-carbon economy. ... Leer más

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  • Comparing Institution-Building in East Asia

    Power Politics, Governance, and Critical Junctures

    de H. Yoshimatsu ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating and developing multilateral institutions in five policy areas: trade, finance, food security, energy security, and the environment. ... Leer más

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  • Carbon Trading in China

    Environmental Discourse and Politics

    de Alex Lo ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives of national power and development. ... Leer más

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  • Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change

    The Asia-Pacific Experience

    Edición de L. Anceschi, J. Symons ...
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