| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
What everyone needs to know
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What everyone needs to know.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An overview -- Setting the scene, some historical background -- Economic development since the late 20th century -- China's new consumerism -- What's happening to China's air? -- Water contamination and water scarcity -- Soil pollution and agriculture -- Pollution and public health -- China's pollution/environment and the world -- Pollution and the Chinese public -- The state and environmental pollution -- The search for cleaner energy. |
| Summary |
China's economy has grown remarkably quickly in recent decades and is now the second largest in the world-but prosperity has come at great environmental cost. Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know® examines the nature of the country's pollution crisis, the Chinese people's response to it, and the efforts by the state to tackle it. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pollution -- China.
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Environmental policy -- China.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Environmental policy. |
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Pollution. |
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China. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gardner, Daniel K., 1950- Environmental pollution in China. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] 9780190696115 (DLC) 2017036679 (OCoLC)1003854848 |
| ISBN |
9780190696139 (electronic bk.) |
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0190696133 (electronic bk.) |
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9780190696146 (electronic bk.) |
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0190696141 (electronic bk.) |
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9780190696115 |
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0190696117 |
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9780190696122 |
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0190696125 |
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