1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910483979103321

Autore

Shen Dajun

Titolo

Water resources management of the people's republic of china : framework, reform and implementation / / Dajun Shen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-61931-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 455 p. 42 illus., 30 illus. in color.)

Collana

Global Issues in Water Policy, , 2211-0631 ; ; 26

Disciplina

363.7394

Soggetti

Water-supply - Management - China

Water resources development - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Physical settings and water challenges -- Chapter 2. Water resources management framework -- Chapter 3. Water resources management institutions -- Chapter 4. River basin management -- Chapter 5. Water resources allocation and regulation -- Chapter 6. Water rights system -- Chapter 7. Water pricing -- Chapter 8. Groundwater management -- Chapter 9 Water quality management -- Chapter 10. Recycled water use management -- Chapter 11. The strictest water resources management strategy and three redlines -- Chapter 12 River and lake leadership system -- Chapter 13. Water resources asset management -- Chapter 14. Water resources allocation and regulation in Yellow River basin -- Chapter 15. Agricultural water management in northern China -- Chapter 16 Integrated urban and rural water affair management reform: Shanghai and Beijing -- Chapter 17 -- Environmental flow definition and management: a case study of Jiaojiang River -- Chapter 18. Climate change and water resources -- Chapter 19 Conclusions and outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores water resources management issues in China and possible solutions. It analyzes a wide range of general and specific topics, providing case studies and a balanced review of the past and present situation as well as future developments. The book begins with a general introduction and an overview of hydrology, water resources, and development issues in China. It then presents a management



framework, including a management system, management institutions, river basin management, water pricing, water rights, and groundwater management, and discusses its implementation, covering water resources allocation and regulation in the Yellow River, integrated water affair management reforms, and agricultural water management in northern China. The last section focuses on the current reforms and hot topics, with strong emphasis on stringent water resource strategies applied to the river and lake principle system, recycled water use and water resources asset management, as well as climate change impacts, and concludes with a summary of the many changes in the water sector in China and a look at the road ahead and the areas that still need to be reformed.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967500503321

Autore

Dauvergne Peter

Titolo

The shadows of consumption : consequences for the global environment / / Peter Dauvergne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

9780262260572

0262260573

9780262271233

0262271230

9781435665620

1435665627

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Disciplina

333.7

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Environmental aspects

Environmentalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Ecological Shadows of Rising Consumption -- 1 An Unbalanced Global Political Economy -- 2 Dying of Consumption -- I



Automobiles -- 3 Accidental Dependency? The Road to an Auto World -- 4 A Better Ride: Selling Safe and Clean -- 5 The Road Tolls -- 6 The Globalization of Accidents and Emissions -- II Leaded Gasoline -- 7 Leaded Science: Pumping Out Profi ts and Risks -- 8 Lead Must Go -- 9 Taking the Lead Out of Africa -- 10 The Globalization of Risk -- III Refrigerators -- 11 Refrigerating the Ozone Layer -- 12 Phasing Out CFC Refrigerators -- 13 Selling the "Superior" Refrigerator -- 14 The Globalization of Plugging In -- IV Beef -- 15 The Efficient Steer: Fast, Fat, and Cheap -- 16 The Ecology of Big Beef -- 17 Sustainable Beef? Chasing a Stampede of "Regular" Steers -- 18 The Globalization of More Meat -- V The Harp Seal Hunt -- 19 To the Red Ice: Heroes and Overharvesting -- 20 The Brutes! Killing Markets with Activism -- 21 Hunting Beaters for Globalizing Markets -- 22 The Globalization of Slippery Markets -- Conclusion Transforming Global Consumption -- 23 The Illusions of Environmentalism -- 24 A Brighter World Order of Balanced Consumption -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant ecosystems, communities, and timelines, tipping into crisis people and places without the power to resist. In The Shadows of Consumption, Peter Dauvergne maps the costs of consumption that remain hidden in the shadows cast by globalized corporations, trade, and finance. Dauvergne traces the environmental consequences of five commodities: automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, and harp seals. In these fascinating histories we learn, for example, that American officials ignored warnings about the dangers of lead in gasoline in the 1920s; why China is now a leading producer of CFC-free refrigerators; and how activists were able to stop Canada's commercial seal hunt in the 1980s (but are unable to do so now). Dauvergne's innovative analysis allows us to see why so many efforts to manage the global environment are failing even as environmentalism is slowly strengthening. He proposes a guiding principle of "balanced consumption" for both consumers and corporations. We know that we can make things better by driving a high-mileage car, eating locally grown food, and buying energy-efficient appliances; but these improvements are incremental, local, and insufficient. More crucial than our individual efforts to reuse and recycle will be reforms in the global political economy to reduce the inequalities of consumption and correct the imbalance between growing economies and environmental sustainability.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911009216503321

Autore

Johns Rosemary

Titolo

Parricide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Currency Press, 2014

ISBN

9781925004762

1925004767

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (124 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StubbingsDiane

Disciplina

809.2

Soggetti

Drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism

English drama

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Playwright�s Biography""; ""First Production Details""; ""Development""; ""Writer�s Note""; ""Director�s Note""; ""Acknowledgements and Sources""; ""Characters""; ""Setting""; ""The Parricide""; ""Scene One""; ""Scene Two""; ""Scene Three""; ""Scene Four""; ""Scene Five""; ""Scene Six""; ""Scene Seven""; ""Scene Eight""; ""Scene Nine""; ""Scene Ten""; ""Scene Eleven""; ""Scene Twelve""; ""Scene Thirteen""; ""Scene Fourteen""; ""Scene Fifteen""; ""Scene Sixteen""; ""Scene Seventeen""; ""Scene Eighteen""; ""Scene Nineteen""; ""Scene Twenty""; ""Scene Twenty-One""

""Scene Twenty-Two""""Scene Twenty-Three""; ""Scene Twenty-Four""; ""Scene Twenty-Five""; ""Scene Twenty-Six""; ""Scene Twenty-Seven""; ""Scene Twenty-Eight""; ""Scene Twenty-Nine""; ""Scene Thirty""; ""Scene Thirty-One""; ""Scene Thirty-Two""; ""Scene Thirty-Three""; ""Scene Thirty-Four""; ""Scene Thirty-Five""; ""Scene Thirty-Six""; ""Scene Thirty-Seven""; ""Scene Thirty-Eight""; ""Scene Thirty-Nine""; ""Copyright Page""

Sommario/riassunto

St Petersburg, Russia, 1866. Nihilist revolutionaries have taken to the streets and the rule of the Tsar is under threat. In a small flat, Fyodor Dostoyevsky grafts out a novel for an unscrupulous publisher; it isn't the novel he wants to write, but he is under contract, so he works. All the time, though, he is haunted by a story from his past-that of a



parricide, a young man who kills his father. As the characters in his imagination take shape around him, he finds himself forced to choose between rebellion and repression, authority and chaos, passion and love.