02850nam 22005893u 450 991048070290332120210108144257.01-877551-96-1(CKB)2670000000405764(EBL)1273954(OCoLC)854520532(SSID)ssj0001605977(PQKBManifestationID)16314742(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001605977(PQKBWorkID)14896583(PQKB)11127312(MiAaPQ)EBC1273954(Au-PeEL)EBL1273954(EXLCZ)99267000000040576420160502d2013|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrDevouring Dragon[electronic resource] How China's Rise Threatens the Natural WorldWellington Awa Press20131 online resource (366 p.)Description based upon print version of record.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<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 counDevouring Dragon Environmental degradation -- ChinaEnvironmental policy -- ChinaEnvironmental protection -- International cooperationEnvironmental responsibility -- ChinaNature -- Effect of human beings on -- ChinaElectronic books.Environmental degradation -- China.Environmental policy -- China.Environmental protection -- International cooperation.Environmental responsibility -- China.Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- China.363.70951Simons Craig1037157AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910480702903321Devouring Dragon2457929UNINA