The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Cornell University))
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801476135 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations. She consults regularly for the U.S. government on issues related to China and the environment and is a frequent television and radio commentator on U.S.-China relations. Elizabeth C. She is coeditor of China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects and The Internationalization of Envi
Economy examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development.Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, Economy traces the economic and political roots of China's environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China's current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control.The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The Ri
Malvin said China's burgeoning environmental crisis. "The River Runs Black" by Elizabeth C. Economy is an intelligent analysis of contemporary China and its burgeoning environmental crisis. This engaging book helps us understand how globalization is reshaping China and issues an urgent plea for international cooperation to help monitor and rectify an increasingly worrysome situation.Ms. Economy tells us how China's environment has been steadily deteriorating over the past . E. N. Anderson said Good policy study. Previous reviewers have said good things about this book, and I can only agree. It is notably superior to other recent books about the Chinese environment, which (though often scholarly) are long on polemics and short on comprehensive vision. Dr. Economy focuses on politics and policies. These have been notoriously awful under Communism, but there is now a realization of the damage being done, and thus some hope. Dr. Eco. "read it if you dare" according to SDB. incredibly depressing and negative, leaves one with a sick feeling in the stomach. but its happening in China every day.This is an astounding book, but very difficult to read. I still shake my head in disbelief.
Beijing roads carry 2 million cars now, with 3 million predicted for next year. "The statistics and the anecdotes recounted in The River Runs Black are worse than ominous: China has six of the ten most polluted cities in the world; just by breathing, some children are smoking the equivalent of two packets of cigarettes a day; acid rain affects a third of the territory; more than three-quarters of the river water flowing through urban areas is unsuitable for drinking or fishing; each year, 300,000 people die prematurely as a result of air pollution; in one part of Guangdong Province, where circuit boards had been