Devouring Dragon [[electronic resource] ] : How China's Rise Threatens the Natural World

• Autore: Simons Craig
• Pubblicazione: Wellington, : Awa Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.70951
• Soggetto topico: Environmental degradation -- China; Environmental policy -- China; Environmental protection -- International cooperation; Environmental responsibility -- China; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- China
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Devouring Dragon
• Titolo autorizzato: Devouring Dragon
• ISBN: 1-877551-96-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480702903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II