Environmental Issues in China Today A View from Japan /

• Main Author: Imura, Hidefumi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research,
• Subjects: Environment.; Physical geography.; Environmental economics.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Earth System Sciences.; Environmental Economics.

Economic development and environmental issues in China are attracting more and more attention internationally as the country’s large population and vast demands for food, energy, water, minerals, and other resources play an increasingly important role in deciding the fate of the world. There is grea...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Environmental Problems: Borderless
• 2. China’s Environmental Issues: An Overview
• 3. Resource Consumption Rising, Economy with Sound Material Cycles Needed
• 4. Water: The Key to China’s Destiny
• 5. Air Pollution: Many Impacts
• 6. Sustaining China: Agriculture and the Environment
• 7. Environmental Management Systems: In Place, But Must Be Implemented
• Concluding Comments: The Chinese Landscape.