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Author : Dale A. Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 22,1 MB
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1304594432
This is an on the ground report and analysis of the growing air pollution threat and related scandals in China. The prognosis for the future of the world is dire based on case studies of emerging disasters.
Author : Drac Von Stoller
Publisher : Drac Von Stoller
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2014-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 131048483X
The day finally came for all mankind that would choke his very existence from the planet he promised to love and honor. No one could leave their homes because the smog was getting thicker and thicker by the minute. The sun that used to shine so bright that every man, woman, and child took for granted was nothing more than a dot like a flashlight with weak batteries that you hit with your hand several times in hopes light would shine. You can replace batteries in a flashlight, but when the sun doesn't have a chance to shine on everything that deepened on its heat source things start to die including the human race. Scientists from all over the world tried their best to find a solution, but it was too late, and all they could do was sit back and watch the whole human race die out.
Author : Daniel K. Gardner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190696117
When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring. China's GDP has grown on average nearly 10 percent annually since, and its economy is now the second largest in the world. Forty years ago, the Flying Pigeon bicycle ruled the roads; today, China is the world's largest car market. And if forty years ago you looked out across the Huangpu River from the Bund in Shanghai, you would have seen farmland and a few warehouses and wharves; now you see the stunning, futuristic cityscape of Pudong. The material progress of the past forty years has been staggering -- a source of pride for the Chinese people, as well as a source of legitimacy for the ruling Chinese Communist Party. But that progress has come at great cost: the extreme pollution of China's air, water, and soil has taken a stark toll on human health. In Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Daniel K. Gardner examines the range of factors -- economic, social, political, and historical -- contributing to the degradation of China's environment. He also covers the public response to the widespread pollution; the measures the government is taking to clean up the environment; and the country's efforts to lessen its dependence on fossil fuels and develop clean sources of energy. Concise, accessible, and authoritative, this book serves as an ideal primer on one of the world's most challenging environmental crises.
Author : Sofia Idris
Publisher : Engineering Science Reference
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9781522539902
"This book addresses different aspects of international relations, ranging from foreign policies, cooperation and competition, conflict and conflict resolution, trade, economics, politics and related topics concerning environmental sustainability. It explores the changing world situation in the contemporary globalized world with some states exerting their influence subsiding the spirit of cooperation and overlooking the issue of environmental sustainability"--
Author : Tim Smedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1472953304
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019** 'Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution.' Arnold Schwarzenegger Air pollution has become the world's greatest environmental health risk, and science is only beginning to reveal its wide-ranging effects. Globally, 19,000 people die each day from air pollution, killing more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and car accidents combined. What happened to the air we breathe? Sustainability journalist Tim Smedley has travelled the world to try and find the answer, visiting cities at the forefront of the fight against air pollution, including Delhi, Beijing, London and Paris. With insights from the scientists and politicians leading the battle against it, and people whose lives have been affected by it, Clearing the Air tells the full story of air pollution for the first time: what it is, which pollutants are harmful, where they come from and – most importantly – what we can do about them. Air pollution is a problem that can be solved. The stories uncovered on this journey show us how. Clearing the Air is essential reading for anyone who cares about the air they breathe. And this much becomes clear: in the fight against air pollution, we all have a part to play. The fightback has begun. 'Compulsory reading' Chris Boardman
Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262536064
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.
Author : Federico Caprotti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137298766
The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. These are the most notable attempts at building new eco-cities to both face up to the 'crises' of the modern world and to use the city as an engine for transition to a low-carbon economy.
Author : Nick Holdstock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1786732203
China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the 'Chinese Dream', the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country in order to find out the reality behind this rhetoric - from the factory-owner, to the noodle seller, from the karaoke maids to the hoteliers, and from the deserted, ageing countryside to the young and overcrowded cities.Chasing the Chinese Dream follows a cast of extraordinary characters: we meet the people getting rich; running factories and buying luxury cars and Louis Vuitton bags. But we also meet those left behind, trapped by a system which forces long hours and no prospects upon them. A spell-binding and magical narrative, this book looks to tell the story of modern China through the people who are living it.
Author : John Hannigan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 100064684X
John Hannigan’s definitive textbook offers a distinctive, balanced coverage of environmental issues, policies and action. This revised fourth edition has been expanded and fully updated to explore contemporary developments and issues within global environmental sociology. Environmental Sociology reconciles Hannigan’s widely cited model of the social construction of environmental problems and controversies, which states that incipient environmental issues must be identified, researched, promoted and persuasively argued in the form of "claims", with an environmental justice perspective that stresses inequality and threats to local communities. For example, this new edition explores the interconnections between indigenous communities and environmental activists via a study of the difficult relationship between Aboriginal people and environmentalists in Australia. The updated fourth edition also discusses new direct action protest groups, such as Extinction Rebellion, who have reframed the discourse around the "climate emergency" using apocalyptic language and imagery. Environmental Sociology also signposts exciting new directions for future research. The fourth edition re-interrogates the classical roots of environmental theory with a focus of the work of Alexander von Humboldt. Hannigan also asserts the need for environmental sociologists to turn their attention to "The Forgotten Ocean", arguing that the discipline should incorporate cutting-edge concepts such as marine justice, striated space and volumetrics. Environmental Sociology is a key text for students and researchers in environmental studies, political ecology, social geography and environmental sociology.
Author : Drac Von Stoller
Publisher : Drac Von Stoller
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 149434467X
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