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Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions
Author: Sujian Guo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0739147420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →China is a multiethnic country with a vase territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of a western grand development strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable use of biodiversity resources as a result of growing interaction between human activities and the natural environment. To meet the challenges, governments in these regions need to adopt a series of important policy measures not only to reduce industrial emissions but also to return farmland to forests and pasture to grasslands and to implement measures of ecological migration to reduce human activities in ecological conservation areas. In this regard, China must not only learn profound lessons from industrialized countries but also search for international cooperation. The United States provides some good comparative case studies on environmental protection, grassroots environmental management, and conservation policies in western regions. This book attempts to address key questions about Chinese and U.S. environmental policies by looking at the historical development of environmental protection and the current environmental policies in the western regions of the two countries. Book jacket.
China's West Region Development
Author: Ding Lu
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9812794824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the last two decades, China's western inland region has largely been left out of the nation's economic boom. While its 355-million population accounts for 28% and its land area for 71% of China's total, the region's share of the national GDP is under 20%. Since 1999, Beijing has implemented the West China Development Program to boost the region's growth. To study the major domestic issues and the global implications of this program, the University of Victoria's Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives organized and hosted a multidisciplinary international conference on March 6OCo8, 2003. This volume of papers presented at the conference offers perspectives on the issues by leading experts of diversified academic disciplines from China, Canada, the US, and other countries. Sample Chapter(s). Introduction: West China Development Issues and Challenges (3,355 KB). Contents: Goals and Objectives: Designing a Regional Development Strategy for China (D Perkins); Eco-Environmental Protection and Poverty-Alleviation in West China Development (Y Zheng & Y Qian); Western China: Human Security and National Security (R Bedeski); Coordinating Institutions and Mechanism: A New Pattern of Regional Co-operation in China: Four Economic Belts Across East to West (S Li et al.); The Political Logic of Fiscal Transfers in China (S Wang); An Introductory Environmental Macroeconomic Framework for China: Implications for West China Development (D Thampapillai et al.); Enhancing the Western China Development Strategy (WCDS): Innovative Approaches (N C Stoskopf et al.); Effectiveness and Efficiency: On the UrbanOCoRural Relationship in Western Region Development Program (Y Shi & P Du); The Western Region's Growth Potential (D Lu & E Thomson); Measuring the Impact of the OC Five Mega-ProjectsOCO (L Lin & S Liu); Education and Development: A Historical Experience of Sichuan (Y Li); Distribution of Benefits and Costs: The New Challenges Facing the Development of West China (S Liu & L Lin); Migration Scenarios and Western China Development: The Evidence from 2000 Population Census Data (S Bao & W T Woo); Gender Relations, Tourism and Ecological Effects in Lijiang, China (G Kelkar); Sources of Interregional Disparity: The Relative Contributions of Location and Preferential Policies in China's Regional Development (S Demurger et al.); Urbanization and West China Development (D Lu & W T Woo); China's Regional Disparities in 1978OCo2000 (Z Lu & S Song); and other papers. Readership: Researchers, academics, students and business consultants interested in China and its development."
Politics of China's Environmental Protection
Author: Gang Chen
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9812838708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the dazzling economic and social changes in China have imposed substantial impact upon the quality of environmental governance, it is time to review the problems and progress in the politics of China''s environmental protection. This book analyzes the factors in China''s governance and political process that affect and restrain its capacity to handle the mounting environmental problems. It argues that solutions to China''s ecological woes to a larger extent lie in the political and institutional changes rather than in engineering, technological and investment input. The book talks about new policies and reform measures in the green area taken by the government since 2007, arguing that some of them may be quite effective in the long run, as long as they alter institutional factors and the OC growth-firstOCO mindset that obstruct the green effort. The book also includes discussion of China''s climate change policy not only because global warming has come under the limelight of the international community in recent years, but also because it offers a unique dimension to analyze the country''s environmental diplomacy and domestic bureaucratic structure on emissions cutting and related energy issues. China is currently at the crossroads of further political and economic reform, and the intensified public attention to environmental pollution may help the Chinese Communist Party to decisively push forward the long-sluggish political reforms.
Political Science and Chinese Political Studies
Author: Sujian Guo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 3642295908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in China and its rising status in the world as well as changes in our ways of conducting research. As area studies specialists, we are no longer “isolated” from the larger disciplines of Political Science and International Relations (IR) but an integral part of them. This book contains theoretically innovative contributions by distinguished political scientists from inside and outside China, who together offer up-to-date overviews of the state of the field of Chinese political studies, combines empirical and normative researches as well as theoretical exploration and case studies, explore the relationship between Western political science scholarship and contemporary Chinese political studies, examine the logic and methods of political science and their scholarly application and most recent developments in the study of Chinese politics, and discuss the hotly-contested and debated issues in Chinese political studies, such as universality and particularity, regularity and diversity, scientification and indigenization, main problems, challenges, opportunities and directions for the disciplinary and intellectual development of Chinese political studies in the context of rising China.
The River Runs Black
Author: Elizabeth C. Economy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011-01-15
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0801459443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. 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, the author 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. Economy compares China's response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country. This second edition is updated with information about events during the past five years, covering China's tumultuous transformation of its economy and its landscape as it deals with the political implications of this behavior as viewed by an international community ever more concerned about climate change and dwindling energy resources.
Democratic Transitions
Author: Sujian Guo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 131775106X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Democratic transitions have occurred in many countries in various regions across the globe, such as Southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and these nations have undergone simuntaneously political, economic and social transformations. Yet, the patterns and characteristics of transitions have varied significantly, and different modes of transition have resulted in different outcomes. This book offers cross-national comparisons of democratic transition since the turn of the twentieth century and asks what makes democracies succeed or fail. In doing so it explores the influence the mode of transition has on the longevity or durability of the democracy, by theoretically examining and quantitatively testing this relationship. The authors argue that the mode of transition directly impacts the success and failure of democracy, and suggest that cooperative transitions, where opposition groups work together with incumbent elites to peacefully transition the state, result in democracies that last longer and are associated with higher measures of democratic quality. Based on a cross-national dataset of all democratic transitioning states since 1900, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international politics, comparative politics and democracy, and democratization studies.
China’s Search for Good Governance
Author: D. Zhenglai
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-10-10
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0230337589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Governance has emerged as a central concept and key word in China's governmental and local policy and practice at different levels. This edited collection combines empirical and normative researches as well as theoretical exploration and case studies on the governance theories and practices in China.
China's Quiet Rise
Author: Baogang Guo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0739169084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite China's desire to make its rapid ascendance in the 21st century as non provocative as possible, the key to ensure China's peaceful rise lies in two-way integration and engagement. A closely integrated China with the rest of the world and China's acceptance of existing international norms and rules may compel China to behave in a more predictable and responsive way. This co-edited book examines China's rising military capacity and the complex feelings its neighbors, such as Taiwan, South Korea and India, have toward the increasingly powerful China. The focus of this book is on the efforts made by China to brand her non-aggressive image through promoting public diplomacy and expanding regional free trade and cooperation in Asia and Latin America. It uses the cross-Taiwan-strait relations as a testing ground for the prospect of peace between the two former adversaries. China's Quiet Rise will help readers understand why integration, instead of isolation and containment, may be the most effective way to facilitate China's peaceful rise.
New Frontiers in China's Foreign Relations
Author: Ren Xiao
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011-10-14
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0739150278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book stands as a rebuke to any who would attempt to forward simplistic interpretations of China's rise. In place of parsimonious arguments, or an endorsement of any singular set of images (whether pacific or confrontational), it repeatedly calls attention to the remarkable complexity of China's emerging international profile. More specifically, the leading Chinese and American scholars working in the fields of Chinese foreign policy, international political economy, and national security, who contributed to this volume argue that while China appears to be entering a new era in its relationship with the outside world, such a development encompasses disparate, even contradictory, policies, and, as a result, there is a great deal of fluidity within China's place in world politics.
