Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina	363.7/00951
Soggetto topico	Climatic changes - China Climatic changes - Research - China Environmental policy - China Environmental policy - International cooperation
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-19645-9 9786610196456 0-309-57293-2 0-585-08551-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""China and Global Change""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Purpose""; ""CHINA'S VIEW OF GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""CHINESE GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAM""; ""Chinese National Committee for the IGBP""; ""Chinese National Climate Committee""; ""ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE SCIENCE""; ""CHINESE PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAMS""; ""International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project""; ""Past Global Changes""; ""Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems"" ""Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle and Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment""""Programs on Marine Environments""; ""Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modeling""; ""System for Analysis, Research, and Training""; ""Data and Information Systems for the IGBP""; ""Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Program""; ""Chinese Ecological Research Network""; ""SELECTED TOPICS""; ""Atmospheric Chemistry""; ""Trace Gases and Oxidants""; ""Aerosols""; ""Stratospheric O3""; ""Atmospheric Deposition""; ""Physical and Ecological Interactions of the Atmosphere and Land Surface"" ""Hydrology""""Biotic Controls on Trace Gases""; ""Climate Change Effects on Land Cover Change Dynamics""; ""SUMMARY""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""CHINA'S ROLE IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE""; ""PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE OF THE STUDY""; ""Background""; ""Purpose""; ""Committee Charge""; ""Methodology""; ""Report Format""; ""NOTES""; ""2 China's Responses to Global Change ""; ""CHINA'S VIEW OF GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""CHINESE GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAM""; ""Chinese National Committee for the IGBP""; ""Organization and Membership""; ""CNCIGBP Research Agenda""; ""Chinese National Climate Committee"" ""Organization and Membership""""CNCC Research Agenda""; ""Climate data""; ""Climate Research""; ""Tropical Oceans Global Atmosphere (TOGA)""; ""Climate Application""; ""Climate Impact""; ""National Climate Change Coordination Group""; ""NOTES""; ""3 Overview of Institutions Relevant to Global Change Research ""; ""ORGANIZATION""; ""FUNDING""; ""CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES""; ""NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY""; ""NATIONAL NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA""; ""STATE EDUCATION COMMISSION""; ""STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION COMMISSION""; ""STATE METEOROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION"" ""STATE OCEANOGRAPHIC ADMINISTRATION""""STATE PLANNING COMMISSION""; ""STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMISSION""; ""NOTES""; ""4 Chinese Participation in International Global Change Research Programs ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY PROJECT""; ""Research Highlights""; ""PAST GLOBAL CHANGES""; ""Review of CNCIGBP Literature""; ""Research Highlights""; ""Summary of PAGES Research""; ""GLOBAL CHANGE AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS""; ""China's Vegetation and Climate""; ""Research Highlights""; ""CAS Institute of Botany"" ""CAS Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455929903321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina	363.7/00951
Soggetto topico	Climatic changes - China Climatic changes - Research - China Environmental policy - China Environmental policy - International cooperation
ISBN	9786610196456 9781280196454 1280196459 9780309572934 0309572932 9780585085517 058508551X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""China and Global Change""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Purpose""; ""CHINA'S VIEW OF GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""CHINESE GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAM""; ""Chinese National Committee for the IGBP""; ""Chinese National Climate Committee""; ""ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE SCIENCE""; ""CHINESE PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAMS""; ""International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project""; ""Past Global Changes""; ""Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems"" ""Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle and Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment""""Programs on Marine Environments""; ""Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modeling""; ""System for Analysis, Research, and Training""; ""Data and Information Systems for the IGBP""; ""Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Program""; ""Chinese Ecological Research Network""; ""SELECTED TOPICS""; ""Atmospheric Chemistry""; ""Trace Gases and Oxidants""; ""Aerosols""; ""Stratospheric O3""; ""Atmospheric Deposition""; ""Physical and Ecological Interactions of the Atmosphere and Land Surface"" ""Hydrology""""Biotic Controls on Trace Gases""; ""Climate Change Effects on Land Cover Change Dynamics""; ""SUMMARY""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""CHINA'S ROLE IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE""; ""PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE OF THE STUDY""; ""Background""; ""Purpose""; ""Committee Charge""; ""Methodology""; ""Report Format""; ""NOTES""; ""2 China's Responses to Global Change ""; ""CHINA'S VIEW OF GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""CHINESE GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAM""; ""Chinese National Committee for the IGBP""; ""Organization and Membership""; ""CNCIGBP Research Agenda""; ""Chinese National Climate Committee"" ""Organization and Membership""""CNCC Research Agenda""; ""Climate data""; ""Climate Research""; ""Tropical Oceans Global Atmosphere (TOGA)""; ""Climate Application""; ""Climate Impact""; ""National Climate Change Coordination Group""; ""NOTES""; ""3 Overview of Institutions Relevant to Global Change Research ""; ""ORGANIZATION""; ""FUNDING""; ""CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES""; ""NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY""; ""NATIONAL NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CHINA""; ""STATE EDUCATION COMMISSION""; ""STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION COMMISSION""; ""STATE METEOROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION"" ""STATE OCEANOGRAPHIC ADMINISTRATION""""STATE PLANNING COMMISSION""; ""STATE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMISSION""; ""NOTES""; ""4 Chinese Participation in International Global Change Research Programs ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY PROJECT""; ""Research Highlights""; ""PAST GLOBAL CHANGES""; ""Review of CNCIGBP Literature""; ""Research Highlights""; ""Summary of PAGES Research""; ""GLOBAL CHANGE AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS""; ""China's Vegetation and Climate""; ""Research Highlights""; ""CAS Institute of Botany"" ""CAS Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910973712403321

Autore	Murray Geoffrey <1942, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (270 p.)
Disciplina	363.7/00951
Altri autori (Persone)	CookIan G
Soggetto topico	Environmental policy - China Pollution - China
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-135-78780-8 0-203-22065-X 1-280-03179-4 0-203-29628-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Green China; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; 1 China's environmental crisis: an overview; Progress at high cost; Consumerist contribution; Who should pay?; Sustainability theory; Legacy of Han grandeur; Achievements so far; Need for caution; 2 Ancient legacies; China's sorrow: the Yellow River and the river dragons; Han expansion: desertification and deforestation; Ecological balance; 3 Politics in command; Heavy industry; Four Pests Campaign; On Great Leaps and communes; Tree felling versus planting; 4 Market forces unleashed Pragmatism rulesOvermining of communal capital; Township enterprises - rural driving force; Contribution of urban industries; Role of foreign investment; 5 Urban demographic and consumerist pressures; Growing urbanisation; Impact of the market economy; Enter the rural migrant; Population pressures; Consumerism and waste disposal worries; 6 The Sanxia dam; Justification: responding to threats; Critique: mega project dangers; Assessing the debates: alternative ways forward; 7 Moving the waters; Yellow River - continued source of sorrow; Water diversion; Not enough water; Competition for water What are the alternatives?Technical concerns; 8 Ecological tramplings; Atmospheric pollution; Better energy efficiency; Energy conservation; New and renewable energy; The threat of 'carmageddon'; Waste disposal; 9 Pollution on the periphery; Tibet: Land of Riches; Tibet: the Chinese case; Changing agricultural patterns; Tibet: the exiles' case; Prospects for reconciliation; Hong Kong struggles to clean up; Taiwan pays high price for growth; Analysis: common themes and contrasts; 10 Environmental policies; Environmental protection: government monopoly; The legal framework; Economic solutions Return of blue skiesInternational pilot projects; Individual initiatives; 11 Whither China? Alternative environmental futures; Rosy; Gloomy; Doomsday; Back to the future; Summing up; References; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450780003321

Autore	Murray Geoffrey <1942->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (270 p.)
Disciplina	363.7/00951
Altri autori (Persone)	CookIan G
Soggetto topico	Environmental policy - China Pollution - China
ISBN	1-905299-64-8 1-135-78779-4 1-135-78780-8 0-203-22065-X 1-280-03179-4 0-203-29628-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Green China; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface; 1 China's environmental crisis: an overview; Progress at high cost; Consumerist contribution; Who should pay?; Sustainability theory; Legacy of Han grandeur; Achievements so far; Need for caution; 2 Ancient legacies; China's sorrow: the Yellow River and the river dragons; Han expansion: desertification and deforestation; Ecological balance; 3 Politics in command; Heavy industry; Four Pests Campaign; On Great Leaps and communes; Tree felling versus planting; 4 Market forces unleashed Pragmatism rulesOvermining of communal capital; Township enterprises - rural driving force; Contribution of urban industries; Role of foreign investment; 5 Urban demographic and consumerist pressures; Growing urbanisation; Impact of the market economy; Enter the rural migrant; Population pressures; Consumerism and waste disposal worries; 6 The Sanxia dam; Justification: responding to threats; Critique: mega project dangers; Assessing the debates: alternative ways forward; 7 Moving the waters; Yellow River - continued source of sorrow; Water diversion; Not enough water; Competition for water What are the alternatives?Technical concerns; 8 Ecological tramplings; Atmospheric pollution; Better energy efficiency; Energy conservation; New and renewable energy; The threat of 'carmageddon'; Waste disposal; 9 Pollution on the periphery; Tibet: Land of Riches; Tibet: the Chinese case; Changing agricultural patterns; Tibet: the exiles' case; Prospects for reconciliation; Hong Kong struggles to clean up; Taiwan pays high price for growth; Analysis: common themes and contrasts; 10 Environmental policies; Environmental protection: government monopoly; The legal framework; Economic solutions Return of blue skiesInternational pilot projects; Individual initiatives; 11 Whither China? Alternative environmental futures; Rosy; Gloomy; Doomsday; Back to the future; Summing up; References; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910953219903321