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Main Title China's environmental crisis : an inquiry into the limits of national development /
Author Smil, Vaclav.
Publisher M.E. Sharpe,
Year Published 1993
OCLC Number 23939856
ISBN 0873328191; 9780873328197; 1563240416; 9781563240416
Subjects Environmental policy--China ; Economic development--Environmental aspects ; Milieuvraagstuk ; Umweltpolitik--(DE-588)4078523-3 ; Umweltschutz--(DE-588)4061644-7 ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung--(DE-588)4066438-7 ; China--(DE-588)4009937-4
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EJBM  HC430.E5S55 1993 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 12/09/1994
Collation xix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
"An East gate book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes
China Impressions -- China's Environment -- 1. People's Mouths. How Do People Matter? Growing to a Billion. Recent Countercurrents. Coming Generations -- 2. Existential Necessities. Yin-yang of Waters. Changing Farmland. Forests, Grasslands, Wetlands -- 3. China's Modernization. Wealth and Prosperity. Quality of Life. Eating Better. Living Longer. Learning More. Feeling Richer -- 4. Energizing the Advances. Energy for the Countryside. Land, Water, and Energy. Air Pollution. Future Needs. Generation of CO[subscript 2] -- 5. Growing Food. Managing the Land. Irrigating the Fields. Fertilizing the Crops. Farming Without Excess -- 6. Living With the Limits. Realities and Aspirations. Adaptations and Uncertain Prospects.