The China environment yearbook. / Volume 2, : Changes and struggles / / edited by Yang Dongping.

• Superior document: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks: Environment, Volume 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Yang, Dongping,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2008.; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences yearbooks. Environment ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Notes: Includes indexes.

This volume of The China Environment Yearbook is the second in a series of annual records written, commissioned, produced, and edited by Friends of Nature, China’s premier environmental non-governmental organization. This book provides a window on debates and events as they have affected China’s struggles toward a more just and sustainable model of development during the year 2006. Courageous essays question policies of fencing Inner Mongolian grasslands in a way that contradicts local culture and ecology; probe the wisdom of the South-to-North water transfer scheme in the upper Yangzi (and of a potentially even more ecologically intrusive mega-project called the Shuotian Grand Canal Project); and analyze shortcomings in government efforts to clean up some of China’s most heavily polluted waterways. There are candid accounts of new levels of environmental degradation in rural areas and of the difficulties encountered in China’s effort to produce a “green GDP” that would accurately reflect the costs of natural resource extraction and pollution. Other hard-hitting articles describe China’s role in the global trade in illegal logging, analyze the problem of “cancer villages,” and make clear the seriousness of problems with widespread groundwater contamination and lack of access to safe drinking water.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1. Standing at a New Vantage Point—China’s Environment in 2006, the First Year of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan / Hu Kanping -- 2. Challenges of and Prospects for Green GDP Accounting / Zhang Ying -- 3. Pan Yue’s Refl ections on the Environment / Hu Kanping -- 4. Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR) Is the Key to Realizing Environmental Targets in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan / Ma Zhong and Wu Jian -- 5. A Good Beginning: Environmental Legislation in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan—A 2006 Update / Ning Chen and Wu Zhijiao -- 6. Environmental Problems in Developing the New Socialist Countryside / Wang Peng -- 7. Rural Society Coping with Pollution / Tao Chuanjin -- 8. The Wushan Model: Building a Sustainable New Socialist Countryside / Sun Jun -- 9. Greening China’s Film Industry in 2006 / Guo Xiaojun -- 10. The Evolution of International NGOs in China: Broadening Environmental Collaboration and Shifting Priorities / W. Chad Futrell -- 11. The Environmental Impacts of Large-Scale Construction Projects / Fan Xiao -- 12. Are Fences and Grazing Bans the Best Tools for Controlling Desertifi cation? / Liu Shurun -- 13. Gaining and Maintaining Access to Safe Drinking Water / Zhao Wengeng -- 14. Controlling Pollution in the Huaihe River Basin: Still a Long Way to Go / Huo Daishan -- 15. Water Rights Trading in China / Li Xi and Liu Mei -- 16. Mapping Water Pollution in China: Informational Transparency at Work / Ma Jun -- 17. The Ecological Benefi ts of Improving the Quality of Forests / Shen Xiaohui -- 18. Forest Rights “Reform” and Natural Forest Protection / Feng Yongfeng -- 19. Chinese Wood Products Trade and the Illegal Timber Trade / Tamara Stark , Shi Pengxiang and Cheng Yun -- 20. Annual Indexes: Environmental Data and Trends -- Index.