Patterns of China's Lost Harmony

Zusatztext `If you have a serious interest in China's environment, this book will not disappoint you with its depth of analysis and genuine scholarship. It is also an invaluable reference book.' - South China Morning Post Informationen zum Autor Richard Louis Edmonds Klappentext Patterns of China's Lost Harmony blends historical documentation with contemporary assessment to determine the degree of human impact upon the country's vegetation, soils, water, air and wildlife. This book introduces the development of environmental ideas as found in the ancient Chinese classics and traces the history of vegetation degradation. The pattern of land degradation is described with emphasis on soil erosion and desertification. Pollution, which increased dramatically throughout the 1980s, is analysed employing national statistics and local examples; the various policies recently introduced for pollution control are assessed. Wildlife management is scrutinised largely through a discussion of the evolution of China's nature reserve network. Regional variation in degradation and protection is stressed throughout. Filling an important gap in the literature on China's environment by providing a comprehensive assessment of China's environment as of the early 1990s, this book will serve as an important reference tool, both for understanding the historical scope of environmental degradation and for assessing attempts to control environmental degradation since the 1980s. Zusammenfassung Combines historical documentation with contemporary assessment to analyse the increasing problems of environmental degradation in China brought on by a century of rapid demographic and economic growth in dire need of control. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 THE NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN CHINA 2 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN CHINAS PAST 3 VEGETATION REDUCTION IN CHINA SINCE 1949 4 SOIL EROSION, FLOODS AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN MINORITY AREAS PATTERNS OF CHINAS LOST HARMONY 5 DESERTIFICATION, GRASSLAND DEGRADATION, WATER SHORTAGES AND SALINISATION-ALKALISATION 6 WATER, SOIL AND SOLID WASTE POLLUTION 8 NATURE CONSERVATION 9 A REGIONAL AND GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS 10 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY- PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE...

Autorentext
Richard Louis Edmonds

Klappentext
Patterns of China's Lost Harmony blends historical documentation with contemporary assessment to determine the degree of human impact upon the country's vegetation, soils, water, air and wildlife. This book introduces the development of environmental ideas as found in the ancient Chinese classics and traces the history of vegetation degradation. The pattern of land degradation is described with emphasis on soil erosion and desertification. Pollution, which increased dramatically throughout the 1980s, is analysed employing national statistics and local examples; the various policies recently introduced for pollution control are assessed. Wildlife management is scrutinised largely through a discussion of the evolution of China's nature reserve network. Regional variation in degradation and protection is stressed throughout. Filling an important gap in the literature on China's environment by providing a comprehensive assessment of China's environment as of the early 1990s, this book will serve as an important reference tool, both for understanding the historical scope of environmental degradation and for assessing attempts to control environmental degradation since the 1980s.

Zusammenfassung
Combines historical documentation with contemporary assessment to analyse the increasing problems of environmental degradation in China brought on by a century of rapid demographic and economic growth in dire need of control.

Inhalt
1 THE NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN CHINA 2 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN CHINAS PAST 3 VEGETATION REDUCTION IN CHINA SINCE 1949 4 SOIL EROSION, FLOODS AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN MINORITY AREAS PATTERNS OF CHINAS LOST HARMONY 5 DESERTIFICATION, GRASSLAND DEGRADATION, WATER SHORTAGES AND SALINISATION-ALKALISATION 6 WATER, SOIL AND SOLID WASTE POLLUTION 8 NATURE CONSERVATION 9 A REGIONAL AND GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS 10 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY- PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

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