Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know® PDF
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN CHINA WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW® ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN CHINA WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW® DANIEL K. GARDNER 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. “What Everyone Needs to Know” is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Gardner, Daniel K., 1950– author. Title: Environmental pollution in China : what everyone needs to know / Daniel K. Gardner. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017036679 (print) | ISBN 9780190696115 (hbk.) | ISBN 9780190696122 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780190696139 (updf) | ISBN 9780190696146 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Pollution—China. | Environmental policy—China. Classification: LCC TD187.5.C6 G37 2018 | DDC 363.730951—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036679 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Paperback printed by LSC Communications, United States of America Hardback printed by Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc., United States of America CONTENTS Part I: Setting the Scene 1. Overview 3 2. Historical Background 15 3. Economic Development and the Environment 31 4. China’s New Consumerism 43 Part II: The Polluted Environment 5. What’s Happening to China’s Air? 59 6. Water Contamination and Water Scarcity 75 7. Soil Pollution and Agriculture 93 8. Pollution and Public Health 105 9. China’s Pollution and the World 119 vi Contents Part III: Responding to Environmental Pollution 10. Pollution and the Public Response 137 11. The State and Environmental Pollution 165 12. The Search for Cleaner Energy 189 Epilogue: The Environmental Challenge in the 21st Century 213 NOTES 223 SELECTED READINGS 247 INDEX 273 ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN CHINA WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW® Part I SETTING THE SCENE
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