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  • Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River

    Edición de Carl Middleton, Vanessa Lamb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book focuses on the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, that is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates. The basin supports the livelihoods of over 10 million people, and within it there is great socio-economic, cultural and political diversity. The basin is witnessing intensifying dynamics of resource extraction, alongside large dam ... Leer más

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  • The River Runs Black

    The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

    de Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Chinese Economy

    The Driving Forces Behind Modern Day China

    de Rongxing Guo ...
    This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert from China offers a quality and breadth of coverage. In this book, the author provides an introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The book sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods ... Leer más

    $30.00 USD

  • Transnational Migration and Work in Asia

    Edición de Kevin Hewison, Ken Young ...
    Series series Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major twenty-first ... Leer más

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  • Our Forest, Your Ecosystem, Their Timber

    Communities, Conservation, and the State in Community-Based Forest Management

    de Nicholas Menzies ...
    Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the products and services that flow from the landscape in which they live and has become an essential component ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Governance and Civil Society in Myanmar

    Education, Health and Environment

    de Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Most international attention on Myanmar has focused on the political situation, where the military, in power since 1962, continues to refuse to acknowledge the results of democratic elections, and on related human rights issues. This book, by focusing on education, health and environment, and on the institutions which formulate and deliver policy in these fields, shows how the international ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours

    Vibrant Matter(s)

    de Robert Winstanley-Chesters ...
    This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities, fish themselves, wider ecosystems and the politics of Pyongyang through the lens of critical geography, fisheries statistics and management ... Leer más

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  • China and the Environment

    The Green Revolution

    Edición de Sam Geall ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change. But how are Chinese people really coming to grips with environmental problems? This book ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Thailand's Hidden Workforce

    Burmese Migrant Women Factory Workers

    de Kyoko Kusakabe, Ruth Pearson ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce.Un-documented and unregulated, this army of migrant workers constitutes the ultimate 'disposable' labour force, enduring gruelling working conditions and much aggression from the Thai police and immigration authorities. This insightful book ventures into a part of the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Planning Asian Cities

    Risks and Resilience

    Edición de Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities.They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. Tokyo is an archetypal world city. ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • China's Environmental Challenges

    de Judith Shapiro ...
    Series series China Today
    China’s huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet.In this trailblazing book, noted China specialist and environmentalist Judith Shapiro investigates China’s struggle to achieve sustainable development against a backdrop of acute rural poverty and soaring middle class consumption. Using five ... Leer más

    $23.75 USD

  • Panda Nation

    The Construction and Conservation of China's Modern Icon

    de E. Elena Songster ...
    A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds little notable historical significance in China. Although it has existed in the territory of present-day China since the Pliocene epoch, its widespread popularity there is not only recent, but almost sudden ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD