Chinese research perspectives on the environment. / Special volume, : Critical essays on China's environment and development / / editors, Zheng Yisheng and Liang Fan ; translator, Liang Fan.

• Superior document: Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Zheng, Yisheng,; Fan, Liang,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Chinese research perspectives. Environment ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This collection features articles that originally appeared in the first three volumes of the Chinese edition of China Environment and Development Review . Written by longtime students of China’s environmental challenges and experts working on the research and policy-making frontlines, these pieces provide an evolutionary perspective on both the intellectual understanding of and efforts to address the country’s growing environmental woes. As the environmental condition has continued to worsen in recent decades, Chinese researchers have made admirable efforts toward grappling with the immensity of the problems, including institutional factors that have either compounded or obstructed efforts to mitigate them. Case studies show what works or does not in what will no doubt be a long and difficult journey toward sustainable development and environmental restoration.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction: China’s Environment and Development Challenges / Yisheng Zheng -- 2 Understanding Environmental Pollution in China: An Analysis of Its Key Features / Xiaomin Guo -- 3 China’s Forest Quality: The Missing Agenda / Xiaohui Shen -- 4 The Ecological Impact of Institutions and Policies on the Inner Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem / Dalintai -- 5 Understanding China’s Ecological Restoration Projects: A Study of the Grain for Green Program / Jintao Xu , Xuemei Jiang and Fujin Yi -- 6 Water Scarcity in China / Shaojun Chen -- 7 A New Approach to Conservation in Western China / Xiaoli Shen , Shengzhi Li and Zhi Lü -- 8 Natural versus Human Disturbances of Old-growth Forests / Xiaohui Shen and Zhengji Piao -- 9 Protecting Biodiversity by Means of Promoting Cultural Diversity: A Case Study of the Reindeer-herding Ewenki People / Nianyong Han -- 10 Environmental Rule of Law in China Today / Jin Wang and Mingyuan Wang -- 11 Local and Central Governments: Impulsive Investments and Sustainable Development / Keting Shen -- 12 Public Expenditure and China’s Environmental Targets / Jian Wu and Zhong Ma -- 13 Green gdp Accounting Research in China: Looking Back and Forward / Jinnan Wang , Fang Yu , Hongqiang Jiang and Dong Cao -- 14 Green gdp Accounting in China: Controversies and Progress / Minxue Gao -- 15 Environmental Resource Allocation: Inefficiency and Inequity / Shiqiu Zhang -- 16 Ecological Values and Capitalism / Feng Lu -- 17 Water Scarcity, Water Transfer and Water Trade in China / Xiao Zhang -- 18 Water Rights: A Legal Analysis / Hongmei Zhao and Jie Chen -- 19 Breaching Barriers: Chinese Environmental ngos Come of Age / Tao Fu -- Index.