Author: Yang Dongping
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9789004168008
Published on: 2008-01
Paperback
This volume of The China Environment Yearbook is the second in a series of annual records written, commissioned, produced, and edited by Friends of Nature, China’s premier environmental non-governmental organization. This book provides a window on debates and events as they have affected China’s struggles toward a more just and sustainable model of development during the year 2006. Courageous essays question policies of fencing Inner Mongolian grasslands in a way that contradicts local culture and ecology; probe the wisdom of the South-to-North water transfer scheme in the upper Yangzi (and of a potentially even more ecologically intrusive mega-project called the Shuotian Grand Canal Project); and analyze shortcomings in government efforts to clean up some of China’s most heavily polluted waterways. There are candid accounts of new levels of environmental degradation in rural areas and of the difficulties encountered in China’s effort to produce a “green GDP” that would accurately reflect the costs of natural resource extraction and pollution. Other hard-hitting articles describe China’s role in the global trade in illegal logging, analyze the problem of “cancer villages,” and make clear the seriousness of problems with widespread groundwater contamination and lack of access to safe drinking water.
GENERAL REPORT
Standing at a New Vantage Point—China’s Environment in 2006, the First Year of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan
PART ONE: THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
Challenges of and Prospects for Green GDP Accounting
Pan Yue’s Reflections on the Environment
Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR) Is the Key to Realizing Environmental Targets in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan
A Good Beginning: Environmental Legislation in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan – A 2006 Update
Environmental Problems in Developing the New Socialist Countryside
Rural Society Coping with Pollution
The Wushan Model: Building a Sustainable New Socialist Countryside
Greening China’s Film Industry in 2006
The Evolution of International NGOs in China: Broadening Environmental Collaboration and Shifting Priorities
PART TWO: ECOLOGY
The Environmental Impacts of Large-scale Construction Projects
Are Fences and Grazing Bans the Best Tools for Controlling Desertification?
PART THREE: WATER
Gaining and Maintaining Access to Safe Drinking Water
Controlling Pollution in the Huaihe River Basin: Still a Long Way to Go
Water Rights Trading in China
Mapping Water Pollution in China: Informational Transparency at Work
PART FOUR: FORESTS
The Ecological Benefits of Improving the Quality of Forests
Forest Rights “Reform” and Natural Forest Protection
Chinese Wood Products Trades and the Illegal Timber Trade
PART FIVE: APPENDIX
Annual Indexes: Environmental Data and Trends
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9789004168008
Published on: 2008-01
Paperback
This volume of The China Environment Yearbook is the second in a series of annual records written, commissioned, produced, and edited by Friends of Nature, China’s premier environmental non-governmental organization. This book provides a window on debates and events as they have affected China’s struggles toward a more just and sustainable model of development during the year 2006. Courageous essays question policies of fencing Inner Mongolian grasslands in a way that contradicts local culture and ecology; probe the wisdom of the South-to-North water transfer scheme in the upper Yangzi (and of a potentially even more ecologically intrusive mega-project called the Shuotian Grand Canal Project); and analyze shortcomings in government efforts to clean up some of China’s most heavily polluted waterways. There are candid accounts of new levels of environmental degradation in rural areas and of the difficulties encountered in China’s effort to produce a “green GDP” that would accurately reflect the costs of natural resource extraction and pollution. Other hard-hitting articles describe China’s role in the global trade in illegal logging, analyze the problem of “cancer villages,” and make clear the seriousness of problems with widespread groundwater contamination and lack of access to safe drinking water.
GENERAL REPORT
Standing at a New Vantage Point—China’s Environment in 2006, the First Year of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan
PART ONE: THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
Challenges of and Prospects for Green GDP Accounting
Pan Yue’s Reflections on the Environment
Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR) Is the Key to Realizing Environmental Targets in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan
A Good Beginning: Environmental Legislation in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan – A 2006 Update
Environmental Problems in Developing the New Socialist Countryside
Rural Society Coping with Pollution
The Wushan Model: Building a Sustainable New Socialist Countryside
Greening China’s Film Industry in 2006
The Evolution of International NGOs in China: Broadening Environmental Collaboration and Shifting Priorities
PART TWO: ECOLOGY
The Environmental Impacts of Large-scale Construction Projects
Are Fences and Grazing Bans the Best Tools for Controlling Desertification?
PART THREE: WATER
Gaining and Maintaining Access to Safe Drinking Water
Controlling Pollution in the Huaihe River Basin: Still a Long Way to Go
Water Rights Trading in China
Mapping Water Pollution in China: Informational Transparency at Work
PART FOUR: FORESTS
The Ecological Benefits of Improving the Quality of Forests
Forest Rights “Reform” and Natural Forest Protection
Chinese Wood Products Trades and the Illegal Timber Trade
PART FIVE: APPENDIX
Annual Indexes: Environmental Data and Trends
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