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 a...

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Other Authors: Guo, Sujian, 1957-, Kassiola, Joel Jay, 1945-, Zhang, Jijiao
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781461633389
1461633389
1283614561
9781283614566
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • American agricultural conservation as a national policy : lessons for China's Great West development
  • Grassroots environmental management in the western United States : can it be a model for success for Western China? / Barbara A. Holzman and Qian Guo
  • Values conflict in American environmental federalism, with implications for China / Sheldon Gen
  • Urban growth control and farmland preservation in west China / Xiao Hang Liu
  • Archaeological site management as environmental policy in the United States and China : implications for estern expansion in China / Gary W. Pahl
  • Environmental consciousness change : a comparative study of the United States and China (1950-2008) / Qiu Zhong and Guoqing Shi
  • Urgan environmental protection policies and their effects in China / Li Yujun
  • Ecological and environmental migration in China : policy and practice / Guoqing Shi and Jian Zhou
  • "Cities besieged by garbage" and countermeasures for environmental protection in western cities : a case study of solid waste classification in Kunming / Zhang Jijao [and others]
  • 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 / Fang Sumei.