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Gardner, Daniel

 
9780190696122: Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know
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ISBN 10 : 0190696125 ISBN 13 : 9780190696122
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2018

Synopsis

When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty years ago, the Flying Pigeon bicycle ruled the roads; today, China is the world's largest car market. And if forty years ago you looked out across the Huangpu River from the Bund in Shanghai, you would have seen farmland and a few warehouses and wharves; now you see the stunning, futuristic cityscape of Pudong. The material progress of the past forty years has been staggering-a source of pride for the Chinese people, as well as a source of legitimacy for the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

But that progress has come at great cost: the extreme pollution of China's air, water, and soil has taken a stark toll on human health. In Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Daniel K. Gardner examines the range of factors-economic, social, political, and historical-contributing to the degradation of China's environment. He also covers the public response to the widespread pollution; the measures the government is taking to clean up the environment; and the country's efforts to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels and develop clean sources of energy. Concise, accessible, and authoritative, this book serves as an ideal primer on one of the world's most challenging environmental crises.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel K. Gardner is the D.W. Morrow Professor of History at Smith and the author of several books on China, including Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford).

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190696125
ISBN 13 
9780190696122
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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