Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on environmental degradation including air and water pollution, deforestation, desertification, and resource depletion.

List of contents

Editor's Foreword by Jon Woronoff
Preface
Reader's Note
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Maps
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Glossary
Appendix A: Chinese and Foreign Environmental Activists
Appendix B: Chinese and Multinational Environmental Companies
Appendix C: Environmental Laws and Regulations
Appendix D: Environmental Non-Government Organizations
Appendix E: State Environmental Organizations
Appendix F: Nature Reserves and National Parks
Appendix G: Wetland Nature Reserves and Parks
Bibliography
About the Authors

About the author

Lawrence R. Sullivan is a professor emeritus of political science, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, and a research associate, East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York City. He is co-editor and co-translator of several works on the Chinese environment including China's Water Crisis by Ma Jun (2004) and The River Dragon has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People (1998) by Dai Qing.

Nancy Y. Liu has conducted research at Sloan-Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Biology, College of Staten Island (CSI), City University of New York where she also conducts cancer research.

Summary

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Environment contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on environmental degradation including air and water pollution, deforestation, desertification, and resource depletion.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Y. Liu, Nancy Liu-Sullivan, Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan, Lawrence Sullivan, Lawrence R. Sullivan, Lawrence R. Liu Sullivan, Lawrence R. Liu-Sullivan Sullivan, Sullivan Lawrence R.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781538120354
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2035-4
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East; Historical Dictionaries of Asi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; China, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, environmental science, engineering & technology, Asian History, Dictionaries, Environmental science, engineering and technology