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China's Soil Pollution and Degradation Problems

Author : Claudio O. Delang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134851642
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book China's Soil Pollution and Degradation Problems written by Claudio O. Delang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s air pollution is infamous. The haze can make it impossible to see buildings across the street, and the pollution forces schools to close and creates health and morbidity problems, in addition to tremendous environmental degradation. However, China also faces another important environmental problem, which is less well-known to the public: that of soil degradation and pollution. This book provides an overview of the problems related to soil degradation and pollution throughout China, examining how and why current policy has fallen short of expectation. It also examines the challenges faced by policy makers as they attempt to adopt sustainable practices alongside a booming and ever-expanding economy. China's Soil Pollution and Degradation Problems utilizes grey literature such as newspaper articles, NGO reports and Chinese government information alongside academic studies in order to provide an extensive review of the challenges faced by grassroots organizations as they tackle environmental policy failings throughout China. This book will be of great interest to students of environmental pollution and contemporary Chinese studies looking for an introduction to the topics of soil pollution and soil degradation, and for researchers looking for an extensive list of sources and analysis of China's environmental problems more broadly.

Patterns of China's Lost Harmony

Author : Richard Louis Edmonds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134847173
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Patterns of China's Lost Harmony written by Richard Louis Edmonds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pace of environmental degradation in China has intensified in recent decades. With rapid demographic and economic growth, the current state of degradation has antecedents beginning hundreds of years ago. Patterns of China's Lost Harmony combines historical documentation with contemporary assessment to determine the degree of human impact upon the country's vegetation, soils, water, air and wildlife. This will serve as an important reference tool for understanding the historical scope of environmental degradation and for assessing attempts to control environmental degradation since the 1980s.

Urban Soils

Author : Rattan Lal
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 149877010X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Urban Soils written by Rattan Lal and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, 30% of the world population lived in urban areas in 1950, 54% in 2016 and 66% projected by 2050. The most urbanized regions include North America, Latin America, and Europe. Urban encroachment depletes soil carbon and the aboveground biomass carbon pools, enhancing the flux of carbon from soil and vegetation into the atmosphere. Thus, urbanization has exacerbated ecological and environmental problems. Urban soils are composed of geological material that has been drastically disturbed by anthropogenic activities and compromised their role in the production of food, aesthetics of residential areas, and pollutant dynamics. Properties of urban soils are normally not favorable to plant growth—the soils are contaminated by heavy metals and are compacted and sealed. Therefore, the quality of urban soils must be restored to make use of this valuable resource for delivery of essential ecosystem services (e.g., food, water and air quality, carbon sequestration, temperature moderation, biodiversity). Part of the Advances in Soil Sciences Series, Urban Soils explains properties of urban soils; assesses the effects of urbanization on the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and water and the impacts of management of urban soils, soil restoration, urban agriculture, and food security; evaluates ecosystem services provisioned by urban soils, and describes synthetic and artificial soils.

Soil pollution: a hidden reality

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251305056
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Soil pollution: a hidden reality written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents key messages and the state-of-the-art of soil pollution, its implications on food safety and human health. It aims to set the basis for further discussion during the forthcoming Global Symposium on Soil Pollution (GSOP18), to be held at FAO HQ from May 2nd to 4th 2018. The publication has been reviewed by the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soil (ITPS) and contributing authors. It addresses scientific evidences on soil pollution and highlights the need to assess the extent of soil pollution globally in order to achieve food safety and sustainable development. This is linked to FAO’s strategic objectives, especially SO1, SO2, SO4 and SO5 because of the crucial role of soils to ensure effective nutrient cycling to produce nutritious and safe food, reduce atmospheric CO2 and N2O concentrations and thus mitigate climate change, develop sustainable soil management practices that enhance agricultural resilience to extreme climate events by reducing soil degradation processes. This document will be a reference material for those interested in learning more about sources and effects of soil pollution.

Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Special Volume

Author : Xiao Zhang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004436278
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment, Special Volume written by Xiao Zhang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Security in China provides readers an overview of issues China faces in environmental security. Contributors examine what air, water, soil pollution, grassland degradation, GM food, climate change, and energy dependence mean for China’s national security.

The Bad Earth

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317295293
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Earth written by Vaclav Smil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China strives to significantly increase its economic output, the nation faces an acute deterioration of the physical resources from which this prodigious growth springs. Major problems include water shortages, the pollution of water, high levels of carcinogens in the air, accelerating erosion, and industrial pollution. Originally published in 1984, Vaclav Smil documents and evaluates China’s environmental crisis. This title will be of particular interest for students of Environmental Studies and Development Studies.

China's Environmental Challenges

Author : Judith Shapiro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745698670
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book China's Environmental Challenges written by Judith Shapiro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In the second edition of this acclaimed, trailblazing book, noted China specialist and environmentalist Judith Shapiro investigates China's struggle to achieve sustainable development against a backdrop of acute rural poverty and soaring middle class consumption. Using five core analytical concepts to explore the complexities of this struggle - the implications of globalization, the challenges of governance; contested national identity, the evolution of civil society, and problems of environmental justice and displacement of environmental harm - Shapiro poses a number of pressing questions: Can the Chinese people equitably achieve the higher living standards enjoyed in the developed world? Are China's environmental problems so severe that they may shake the government's stability, legitimacy and control? To what extent are China's environmental problems due to world-wide patterns of consumption? Does China's rise bode ill for the displacement of environmental harm to other parts of the world? And in a world of increasing limits on resources, how can we build a system in which people enjoy equal access to resources without taking them from successive generations, from the vulnerable, or from other species? China and the planet are at a pivotal moment; transformation to a more sustainable development model is still possible. But - as Shapiro persuasively argues - doing so will require humility, creativity, and a rejection of business as usual. The window of opportunity will not be open much longer.

Environmental Pollution in China

Author : Daniel K. Gardner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190696133
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Pollution in China written by Daniel K. Gardner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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®, 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.

Toxic Politics

Author : Yanzhong Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108841910
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Toxic Politics written by Yanzhong Huang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's deepening health crisis reveals the fragility of the party-state and undercuts China's ability to project influence internationally.

China

Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821349373
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book China written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This report focuses on how to promote both China 's economic growth while protecting its environment.

China

Author : Robert B. Marks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442212764
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book China written by Robert B. Marks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China's environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China's traditional "he.

Environmental Degradation in the Drylands of China: Potential Impacts and Possible Remediation Measures: A Review

Author : Suleiman Usman
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640958977
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Degradation in the Drylands of China: Potential Impacts and Possible Remediation Measures: A Review written by Suleiman Usman and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper from the year 2007 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Geology, Mineralogy, Soil Science, grade: B, Natural Resources Institute - University of Greenwich at Medway (-), course: Soil and Environment , language: English, abstract: China is one of the most affected countries in the world in terms of extent and economic impact of environmental degradation. Desertification is the most severe environmental land degradation problems facing China, commonly caused by wind erosion. Wind erosion occurs widely in arid, semiarid and dry sub-humid zones of northern China, where precipitation is rare and vegetation is sparse. In China desertified land covers an area of 3.3 million km2, accounting for 34% of the total land territory or 79% of the entire arid lands in China. Annual direct economic loss caused by desertification is approximately $6,500,000,000. The best way to control this problem in China are: (1) rehabilitation of tree plantation for complete desertification control, (2) improvement of the economic development system through: (i) economize in the use of resources; (ii) moderate exploitation of the resources; and (iii) environmental protection; and (3) providing measures that should be suited to local conditions such as irrigation system and forage farming system.

China's Environmental Challenges

Author : Judith Shapiro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509559698
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book China's Environmental Challenges written by Judith Shapiro and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s huge environmental challenges affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this fully revised and updated third edition of her acclaimed book, noted scholar of Chinese environmentalism Judith Shapiro explores China’s struggle to achieve the ‘ecological civilization’ championed by Xi Jinping since 2017. Drawing on six core analytical concepts - globalization, governance, national identity, civil society, environmental justice, and extractivism - Shapiro ably demonstrates the multifaceted and complex nature of this struggle. China’s precipitous economic growth has carried a heavy cost in air and water pollution, soil contamination, and loss of habitat for the biodiversity upon which human life depends. But its quest for sustainability has been further hampered by authoritarian governance patterns, soaring middle class consumption, the need to provide employment and safety nets for a population of more than one billion, and a manufacturing sector thirsty to secure global resources and sell to new markets. Transformation to a more sustainable development model is still possible. But, as Shapiro persuasively argues, this will require humility, creativity, and a rejection of business as usual. China – and the planet – are at a pivotal moment.

China’s Environmental Crisis

Author : J. Kassiola
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230114369
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book China’s Environmental Crisis written by J. Kassiola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking collection covers the significance of China's extreme environmental challenges for both Chinese society and the world, how these challenges are impacting domestic Chinese society and its political institutions, and how these institutions are responding in their efforts to address the environmental problems.

Heavy Metals in Soils

Author : Brian J. Alloway
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400744706
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Heavy Metals in Soils written by Brian J. Alloway and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of the book has been completely re-written, providing a wider scope and enhanced coverage. It covers the general principles of the natural occurrence, pollution sources, chemical analysis, soil chemical behaviour and soil-plant-animal relationships of heavy metals and metalloids, followed by a detailed coverage of 21 individual elements, including: antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium, tin, tungsten, uranium, vanadium and zinc. The book is highly relevant for those involved in environmental science, soil science, geochemistry, agronomy, environmental health, and environmental engineering, including specialists responsible for the management and clean-up of contaminated land.

Environmental ScienceBites

Author : Kylienne A. Clark
Publisher : The Ohio State University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental ScienceBites written by Kylienne A. Clark and published by The Ohio State University. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.

The River Runs Black

Author : Elizabeth Economy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801442209
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The River Runs Black written by Elizabeth Economy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also 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." "Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, Economy traces the economic and political roots of China's environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China's current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control. The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China's response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country."--BOOK JACKET.