Description |
xvii, 719 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Energy supply and development in China / Ni Weidou and Nien Dak Sze -- Strategic options for reducing CO₂ in China : improving energy efficiency and using alternatives to fossil fuels / Fang Dong ... [et al.] -- Living with coal : coal-based technology options for China's electric power generating sector / Fiona E. Murray and Peter P. Rogers -- Energy use and air-pollution impacts of China's transportation growth / Xiannuan James Lin and Karen R. Polenske -- Industrial growth, air pollution, and environmental damage : complex challenges for China / Michael b. McElroy -- Air pollution and its health effects in urban China / Xu Xiping -- Indoor air pollution from residential energy use in China / Peng Ruicong ... [et al.] -- China's economic growth and carbon emissions |
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1 / Mun S. Ho, Dale W. Jorgenson, and Dwight H. Perkins -- Energy economics in building a modern China / Li Jingwen -- Policymaking for environmental protections for China / Wang Hanchen and Liu Bingjiang -- Limits of the law in addressing China's environmental dilemma / William P. Alford and Yuanyuan Shen -- Effectiveness and efficiency of environmental policy in China / Theodore Panayotou -- From heaven-and-earth to nature : Chinese concepts of the environment and their influence on policy implementation / Robert P. Weller and Peter K. Bol -- China and the United Nations framework convention on climate change / Abram Chayes and Charlotte J. Kim -- Status and trend of China's policies on climate change |
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1 / Wu Baozhong ... [et al.] -- China and international environmental institutions : a decision rule analysis / Alastair Iain Johnston -- Yen for the earth : Japan's pro-active China environment policy / Susan J. Pharr and Ming Wan -- Foreign firms in the Chinese power sector : economic and environmental impacts / Fiona E. Murray, Forest Reinhardt, and Richard Vietor |
Summary |
As China develops a fossil fuel-based economy, is it taking lessons from the history of Western industrialisation? Linking global hazards to local air pollution concerns, this volume examines the environmental aspects of China's economic growth |
Notes |
"Studies of Phase I of the Harvard University Committee on Environment, China Project (1995-1998)." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects -- China.
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Air -- Pollution -- China.
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Industrialization -- Environmental aspects -- China.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- China.
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Environmental policy -- China.
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Energy development -- Environmental aspects -- China.
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Environmental health -- China.
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SUBJECT |
China -- Economic policy -- 1976-2000.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024024
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China -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024018
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Author |
Lydon, Peter, 1937-
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McElroy, Michael B.
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Nielsen, Chris P., 1960-
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Harvard University. Committee on Environment. China Project.
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LC no. |
98022687 |
ISBN |
0674253299 paperback |
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