Green Politics in China - Environmental Governance and State-Society Relations

Informationen zum Autor Joy Y Zhang is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent and an Affiliated Researcher at the College d'Etudes Mondiales, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. She is the author of The Cosmopolitanization of Science (Palgrave, 2012) and Green Politics in China (Pluto, 2013). Michael Barr is a Lecturer in International Politics at Newcastle University. He is the author of Who's Afraid of China? (Zed, 2011) and Green Politics in China (Pluto, 2013). Klappentext 'Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts do not go. Disrupting the easy cliches that dominate US journalism, Enders blows away the media fog of war.' Norman Soloman Through a series of fascinating case studies and interviews, Barr and Zhang reveal the complex interaction between China's people and its government as policy is decided and implemented. This book should be read by all those with an interest in the future of our planet and in the changing relationship between state and society in China. -- Tony Saich, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Zusammenfassung Provides an in-depth and engaging account of the novel ways in which Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis. Introduction 1: Who Is To Blame? 2: Ways of Seeing 3: Ways of Changing 4: Conformist Rebels 5: The Green Leap Forward Conclusion: To Stomach a Green Society Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Michael Barr, Michael D. Barr, Barr Michael, Joy Y Zhang, Joy Y Barr Zhang, Joy Y. Zhang, Joy Y. Barr Zhang, Joy Yueyue Zhang
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2013
• EAN: 9780745333007
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3300-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; China, Sustainability, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government