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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807425303321

Autore

Simons Craig

Titolo

The devouring dragon : how China's rise threatens our natural world / / Craig Simons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wellington, New Zealand : , : Awa Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-877551-96-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Disciplina

363.70951

Soggetti

Nature - Effect of human beings on - China

Environmental responsibility - China

Environmental policy - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Author's Note; Prologue; Part I: China's Baseline; The Yangtze; Baselines; The Three Gorges Dam; Part II: Life on the Brink; Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright; The Sixth Great Extinction; Corbett National Park; Part III: Our Shrinking Forests; A Forest Laid Flat; New Guinea; Our Future Forests; Part IV: Our Warming Skies; Time Travel; Hopenhagen; Epilogue; Notes; Acknowledgements; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>For this brilliant book, author Craig Simons visited many of the places and spoke to many of the people impacted by China's explosive economic growth and voracious appetite for resources. From New Guinea, where great forests are being felled and rare birds threatened to meet China's demand for timber; through Brazil, where large swaths of the Amazon are being cleared to plant soybeans for China, and India, where poachers are hunting and killing tigers and other endangered animals to extinction to feed Chinese demand; to Australia, where the coun