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  • The Russian Urban Sustainability Puzzle

    How Can Russian Cities be Green?

    by Polina Ermolaeva, Yulia Ermolaeva, Olga Basheva, Irina Kuznetsova, Valerya Korunova ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socio-environmental issues and sustainability challenges facing Russian cities. It encompasses a three-year project in Moscow and Kazan which includes population surveys, mass-media analysis, and interviews with different groups of stakeholders.The authors offer extensive analysis of the main components of sustainable cities such as air and water ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

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  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Unknown Cultural Revolution

    Life and Change in a Chinese Village

    by Dongping Han ...
    The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China’s Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social upheaval led to economic disaster, the persecution of intellectuals, and senseless violence. Dongping Han offers a powerful account of the dramatic improvements in the living conditions, infrastructure, and agricultural practices of China’s rural ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • China Fast Forward

    The Technologies, Green Industries and Innovations Driving the Mainland's Future

    by Bill Dodson ...
    Will China Surpass the United States as an innovation nation?China is tirelessly working to overcome its technological deficiencies by driving R&D initiatives in government and business and adapting Western Internet platforms for domestic use. It is extending its technological reach through a major drive to rival India as a services outsourcing leader and projecting its high-tech brands into the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Toxic Politics

    China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State

    by Yanzhong Huang ...
    Environmental degradation in China has not only brought a wider range of diseases and other health consequences than previously understood, it has also taken a heavy toll on Chinese society, the economy, and the legitimacy of the party-state. In Toxic Politics, Yanzhong Huang presents new evidence of China's deepening health crisis and challenges the widespread view that China is winning the war ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • China's Engine of Environmental Collapse

    by Richard Smith ...
    As the world hurtles towards environmental oblivion, China is leading the charge. The nation's CO2 emissions are more than twice those of the US with a GDP just two-thirds as large. China leads the world in renewable energy yet it is building new coal-fired power plants faster than renewables. The country's lakes, rivers, and farmlands are severely polluted yet China's police state can't suppress ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red China's Green Revolution

    Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune

    by Joshua Eisenman ...
    China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Red Revolution, Green Revolution

    Scientific Farming in Socialist China

    by Sigrid Schmalzer ...
    In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more "red," or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.In Red Revolution, Green ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Cities

    Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China

    by Robert Gottlieb, Simon Ng ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Blue Skies over Beijing

    Economic Growth and the Environment in China

    by Siqi Zheng, Matthew E. Kahn ...
    How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most polluted cities in ... Read more

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  • Poisonous Pandas

    Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Matthew Kohrman, Gan Quan, Liu Wennan, Robert N. Proctor ...
    Series series Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
    A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe

    Energy Security, Contested Technologies and the Social Licence to Frack

    by Andreas Goldthau ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
    Fracking is a novel but contested energy technology – so what makes some countries embrace it whilst others reject it? This book argues that the reason for policy divergence lies in procedures and processes, stakeholder inclusion and whether a strong narrative underpins governmental policies. Based on a large set of primary data gathered in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, it explores shale gas ... Read more

    $38.59 USD