Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River Nature and Power in the People’s Republic of China /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Grumbine, R. Edward (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2012.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Political science.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Sustainable Development.; Political Science.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Environmental Management.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

China’s meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the country has been tapped to power exploding cities and factories—every river but one. Running through one of the richest natural areas in the world, the Nujiang’s raging waters were on the verge of being damme...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Highest Good
• Chapter 2. The Frontier and the Middle Kingdom
• Chapter 3. Under the Jade Dragon
• Chapter 4. Old Mountains, Young Parks
• Chapter 5. In the Land of Twelve Thousand Rice Fields
• Chapter 6. Into the Great Green Triangle
• Chapter 7. The Dragon Meets the Angry River
• Chapter 8. China 2020
• Chapter 9. Conservation with Chinese Characteristics
• Notes
• Quotation references
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Index.