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When a billion Chinese jump : how China will save mankind--or destroy it / Jonathan Watts.

by Watts, Jonathan, 1967-

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New York : Scribner, 2010.

Environmental policy -- China.

Environmental protection -- China.

Environmental policy -- China -- Citizen participation.

China -- Environmental conditions.

China -- Politics and government -- 2002-

China -- Economic conditions -- 2000-

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010029901-d.html

9781416580768 (pbk.) :

141658076X (pbk.) :

xii, 435 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.

Useless trees : Shangri-La -- Foolish old men : the Tibetan Plateau -- Still waters, moving earth : Sichuan -- Fishing with explosives : Hubei and Guangxi -- Made in China? : Guangdong -- Gross domestic pollution : Jiangsu and Zhejiang -- From horizontal green to vertical gray : Chongqing -- Shop till you drop : Shanghai -- Why do so many people hate Henan? : Henan -- The carbon trap : Shanxi and Shaanxi -- Attack the clouds! Retreat from the sands! : Gansu and Ningxia -- Flaming mountain, melting heaven : Xinjing -- Science versus math : Tianjin, Hebei, and Liaoning -- Fertility treatment : Shandong -- An odd sort of dictatorship : Heilongjiang -- Grass roots : Xanadu .

The Asia environmental correspondent for the "Guardian" delivers a fascinating, frontline account of the current environmental crisis in China, exploring how Beijing is balancing economic growth with sustainability and whether China will "emerge as the world's first green superpower" or tip our species "over the environmental precipice."

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