Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions
China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of '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 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 the 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 historical development of environmental protection and current environmental policy in the western regions of the two countries.
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Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions
China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of '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 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 the 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 historical development of environmental protection and current environmental policy in the western regions of the two countries.
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Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions

Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions

Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions

Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions

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China is a multiethnic country with vast territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of '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 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 the 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 historical development of environmental protection and current environmental policy in the western regions of the two countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739147429
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 06/14/2010
Series: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
Pages: 214
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Sujian Guo is professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for U.S.-China
Policy Studies at San Francisco State University, with concurrent appointments as associate dean and distinguished professor at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University, China.

Joel J. Kassiola is dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Professor of Political
Science at San Francisco State University.

Jijiao Zhang is professor in the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences and founder and chair of the Commission on Enterprise Anthropology, China.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Ecological and Environmental Challenges in China's Western Regions
Part 2 Part 1: Lessons from the U.S. Experience for China
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: American Agricultural Conservation as a National Policy: Lessons from the U. S. for China's Great West Development
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Grassroots Environmental Management in the Western United States: Can it be a Model for Success for Western China
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Values Conflict in American Environmental Federalism, with Implications for China
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Urban Growth Control and Farmland Preservation in West China
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Archaeological Site Management as Environmental Policy in U.S. and China: Implications for Western Expansion in China
Part 8 Part 2: Chinese Environmental Policy and Experience
Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Environmental Consciousness Change: A Comparative Study of USA and PRC (1950-2008)
Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Urban Environmental Protection Policies and their Effects in China
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Ecological and Environmental Migration in China: Policy and Practice
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: "Cities Besieged by Garbage" and Counter-measures for Environmental Protection in Western Cities: A Case Study of Solid Waste Classification in Kunming
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: Ecological Migration Practices and the Placement of Migrants and its Impact on Poverty Alleviation and Development: A Case Study of the Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County Guangxi

What People are Saying About This

Fengshi Wu

The strength of this book lies in the contributors' shared and genuine attempt to explore the potential of mutual learning in environmental protection between the United States and China. The comparative case studies included in the volume are coherent as a whole, and highly relevant to the field of environmental politics individually.

Carlos Davidson

The U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen made clear that the fate of the planet rests in large part on the environmental policies of two superpowers, China and the United States. This volume could not be more timely with its analysis and comparison of environmental policy in China and the United States.

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