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The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Council on Foreign Relations Book)

The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Council on Foreign Relations Book)

by ElizabethEconomy (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $3.25

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    Hardcover 2004

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Synopsis

China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. This environmental degradation has contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 24 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 0801489784
ISBN 13: 9780801489785

Media Reviews
Elizabeth C. Economy's book hits my 'Top Ten' list from the day it is published. It is a clear and compelling reminder that no engagement with China - commercial, diplomatic, cultural, intellectual - can afford to ignore China's vast environmental dilemmas and the deep social, economic, and political structural problems that make environmental salvation an uncertain enterprise at best. - Robert A. Kapp, President, US-China Business Council; The scale of China's environmental degradation is shocking. Economy's book is particularly strong in its examination of the peculiarly Chinese reasons - beyond the country's rapid development and huge population pressure - that lie behind this. - The Economist; An outstading new book. - The New Republic
Author Bio
Elizabeth C. Economy is C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is coeditor of China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects and The Internationalization of Environmental Protection. Her articles and opinion pieces have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, among other publications. She consults regularly for the U.S. government on issues related to China and the environment and is a frequent television and radio commentator on U.S.-China relations.