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Author: Dongping Yang
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-05-10
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9004182411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth volume of the China Environment Yearbook is essential for studying issues affecting China’s environment from the viewpoint of civil society, policy, and analysis in 2008, including: the Sichuan Earthquake, a worsening global economic crisis, and public interest litigation.
Author: Lin Li
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9004190368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of The China Legal Development Yearbook is the fourth in a series of annual reports written by leading Chinese law and legal policy scholars and judges to appear in English translation. It is edited by scholars at the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This 2009 yearbook reviews major legal developments in 2008, including law reform priorities, major legal policy debates and newly enacted legislation. It also provides reports on food safety, penal law, tax law, earthquake legislation, credit card regulation, procuratorate system reform, medical reform, legal education, and disclosure under the law. This yearbook provides valuable insight into contemporary debates in China about the substance, direction and priorities of legal reform.
Author: Dongping Yang
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-08-22
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9004168001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 citizens’ group. It is the signature annual research publication of China’s non-governmental environmental sector.
Author: Katrin Buchmann
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-08-22
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9004368159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Katrin Buchmann offers a fascinating and insightful account of the efforts of several European embassies to create alliances in the United States and in China to support the UN climate negotiations leading up to COP15.
Author: Congjie Liang
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-06-30
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9047420152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina’s environmental problems and ecological crises are still considerable. Pollution and ecological deterioration are becoming worse, while the booming economy and rising population are adding to the pressure. Will the PRC be able to avoid the traditional route of industrialization and embark on the path of sustainable development? Friends of Nature is China’s first environmental NGO, and their first environmental yearbook deals with the year 2005, the year of the Songhua River toxic spill crisis, the bird flu attacks, but also of a number of governmental and local initiatives to begin to tackle the increasing pressure on the environment. Here are the voices of experts and witnesses from the PRC itself describing and commenting upon the environment and protection measures in China in 2005, from the public perspective.
Author: Dongping Yang
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-05-23
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9004183027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the annual publication of the China Environment Yearbook by Friends of Nature, China’s environmental situation is revealed through the eyes of civil society. In this fifth volume, key issues affecting China’s environment in the year 2009 are explored through five main themes: Public Policy, Litigation, Pollution and Health, Consumption, and Ecological Protection.
Author: Olivia Gippner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1788978471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on first hand interview data with experts and government officials, Olivia Gippner develops a new analytical framework to explore the vested interests and policy debates surrounding Chinese climate policy-making.
Author: Kaixiong Xing
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 283253788X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlants require a proper balance of matter and energy to maintain their survival and reproduction. Biotic and/or abiotic stresses in diverse environments could influence plant photosynthesis, water and nutrient acquisition and utilization. Through the lens of plant physiological and functional ecology, the study of responses of individual plant traits and/or integration of plant responses to environmental change has been well developed. The variation of plant physiological characteristics and functional traits has been recognized with hundreds of high-quality papers on topics of plant responses to environmental stresses. For now, despite the increasing number of studies trying to establish a linkage between plant physiological processes and functional traits, these covariations have received limited theoretical and experimental verification. This knowledge gap hampers our ability to understand and predict the comprehensive responses of plants to environmental stresses at different scales.
Author: Carlos Wing-Hung Lo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1135016097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the past three decades of rapid industrial growth, China has suffered from devastating environmental degradation. Most scholarly and popular publications have painted a rather pessimistic picture about the worrisome trend. Yet a somewhat more optimistic view has emerged in the past decade given the Chinese government’s increased commitment to fighting industrial pollution, the public’s increased concerns regarding the adverse effects of pollution, and domestic and international civil society’s increased involvement in promoting environmental protection in China. Drawing on the authors’ extensive research on Guangdong Province and a few large cities in other provinces, this book provides an in-depth study on China’s environmental governance and regulatory enforcement in the past two decades. Section 1 examines various institutional constraints for environmental regulation enforcement at the local level and how governance reform efforts in the past decade have contributed to the lessening of those constraints. Section 2 draws on data derived from surveys and interviews conducted in multiple cities and times; it examines the dominant regulatory enforcement styles of local environmental protection bureaus and how these styles vary across different regions and over time. Section 3 examines how various stakeholders—the general public, environmental groups, government entities, and corporations—affect the environmental governance process. Overall, the book presents a cautiously optimistic view on the evolution of environmental governance in China. While highlighting many political, institutional, social, and economic constraints, it also documents many changes that have taken place—including reform efforts from within the government administrative system, increasingly societal concerns and actions, and changing attitudes among corporate executives—potentially paving the way for more effective environmental governance in the future.
Author: Doug Guthrie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-06-14
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1136327444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the economic genesis in this compact and highly readable introduction to contemporary China. He highlights the social, cultural and political factors fostering this revolutionary change and interweaves a broad structural analysis with a consideration of social changes at the micro and macro levels. In this new, revised edition author Guthrie updates his story on modern China and provides the latest authoritative data and examples from current events to chart where this dynamically changing society is headed and what the likely consequences for the rest of the world will be.
