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  • Climate Change, Sustainable Development, and Human Security

    A Comparative Analysis

    de Maria Bondes, Antonio Marcio Buainain, Natalia Eremina, Cheng Fang-Ting, Leonid M. Gregoryev, Laura L. Janik, Craig Johnson, Palakodety Sita Janaki Kreshina, Norman Laws, Rebecca McGuire, Ramkumar Mishra, Roopinder Oberoi, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Alla Salmina, Clifton White, Paul Williams, Mahendra Prasad Singh ...
    This anthology of scholarly essays on climate change, sustainable development, and human security presents a comprehensive analysis of severe global warming and its potential to impact all aspects of human life and security. It has been observed that climate change will most drastically impact poor tropical regions of the world for various reasons. The main focus of this collection of essays is to ... Leer más

    $141.99 USD

  • Chinese Environmental Contention

    Linking Up against Waste Incineration

    de Maria Bondes ...
    Series series Environment and Society in Asia
    A plethora of new actors has in recent years entered China’s environmental arena. In Western countries, the linkages and diffusion processes between such actors often drive environmental movements. Through a study of Chinese anti-incineration contention, Chinese Environmental Contention: Linking Up against Waste Incineration investigates how the different contentious actors in China’s green sphere ... Leer más

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  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • International Aid and China's Environment

    Taming the Yellow Dragon

    de Katherine Morton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.Using case studies, Morton analyzes the relationship between international and local responses to ... Leer más

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  • Toxic Politics

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts

    Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China

    de Jeremy L. Wallace ...
    A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics-until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts argues that the Chinese government adopted a system of limited, quantified vision in order to survive ... Leer más

    $27.89 USD

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  • Rural Migrants in Urban China

    Enclaves and Transient Urbanism

    Edición de Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision. Unlike most developing countries, however, these are not squatter settlements but ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Red China's Green Revolution

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Understanding China's Urbanization

    The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

    de Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao ...
    China's urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Environmental Litigation in China

    A Study in Political Ambivalence

    de Rachel E. Stern ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions, why lawyers take cases, and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership's mixed signals and ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • China's Youth

    Increasing Diversity amid Persistent Inequality

    de Li Chunling ...
    Series series The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
    Understanding the young adults who came of age during the rise of China's economic and global powerThis book by a prominent Chinese sociologist explores how China's youth will influence the country's future. Focusing on millennials-those born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s-the book examines the status, lifestyles, attitudes, values, and behaviors of this key segment of the country's ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Unmaking China's Development

    The Function and Credibility of Institutions

    de Peter Ho ...
    Why would the removal of authoritarian institutions in some developing countries lead to sustained socio-economic crisis, while others experience explosive growth despite 'persisting' informal, insecure and rent-seeking institutional arrangements? A key to solving this enigma lies in understanding China, a country where the paradoxes of development are highly visible. Peter Ho argues that ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD