Conservation of the environment Books

Book SynopsisChinese Research Perspectives on the Environment (formerly The China Environment Yearbook), Volume 1, was written and produced by China’s first environmental non-profit organization, Friends of Nature. This edition of the book combines two years of reports on China's environment from the view of civil society. With a special focus on natural and unnatural disasters, the book also covers the themes of pollution and ecological protection, urban environmental issues and livability, sustainable consumption, policy and governance, civil society and public participation, and China and the world in an environmental perspective. In this volume, readers are brought up to date on the main environmental issues and events of 2010 and 2011. Beginning in 2010, debris flows, landslides, and droughts brought about considerable debate on the human factors involved in “natural disasters” and on China’s urban growth mode. The concept of urban livability is discussed within the backdrop of the waste and water crises. Several environmental incidents, including the Bohai Bay oil spill and the chromium slag pollution incident in Qujing, are also explored within the book. Meanwhile, increased public participation and environmental information transparency give reason for hope. Other articles include research and analysis on China’s investments in Africa, its struggling environmental courts, public interest litigation, the controversial Xiaonanhai dam and others on the Mekong River, green supply chains, and the PM2.5 debate.

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Book SynopsisA special volume in the Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment series, this English-language volume is an edited collection of articles selected from the Chinese-language Annual Report on Actions to Address Climate Change (2012): Climate Finance and Low Carbon Development. This volume provides information on how China views the challenge of climate change and seeks to rectify the extraordinary confusion found in the West on China’s green energy future and its larger perspectives on this extraordinarily crucial topic. Contributors in this volume provide a bigger picture of international negotiations on climate change; discuss China’s national actions on green energy and sustainability and how national policies are implemented at the local level; and examine challenges and potential of developing green energy resources in China.Table of ContentsForeword Steven A. Leibo and Li Yang 1 Doha Planning for the Future: Extension of the Kyoto Protocol and Outlook for the Durban Platform Wang Mou, Pan Jiahua, and Lian Huishan 2 South-South Cooperation against Climate Change and Future Prospects Chao Qingchen and Jia Pengqun 3 China’s Sustainable Development in a Shifting Global Context Wang Yi 4 Distribution and Implementation of Energy Saving and Low Carbon Development Targets For the 12th Five-Year Plan Chen Ying 5 Progress of Low-Carbon Urban Construction in China Zhuang Guiyang and Wang Chunli 6 Status of the Chinese Trading Scheme for Carbon Credits and Future Prospects Hongbo Chen, Wei Lin, and Zheng Zhou 7 Analysis of Synergistic Effects of Low-Carbon Actions and Climate Change Adaptive Measures Wang Wenjun and Zheng Yan 8 Carbon Dioxide Emissions Policies and Actions of Low-Carbon Development in China’s Transport Sector Cai Bofeng and Feng Xiangzhao 9 Demand for and Policies to Improve Low-Carbon Financing Pan Jiahua, Hongbo Chen, Xiang Yu, and Lijuan Wang 10 China’s Green Climate Fund: Innovation and Experience Li Nuyun and Li Jinliang 11 Weather Index Insurance and Commercial Applications in China Su Buda, Tan Feng, Fang Yu, Thomas Fischer, and Zhan Mingjin 12 Development of Renewable Energy and New Energy in China and Market Prospects Wang Yu and Zhang Xiliang 13 Development Potential for Wind and Solar Energy Resources in China Zhu Rong 14 Meteorological Disaster Trends and Impacts in China Gao Ge, Zhao Shanshan, and Xu Ying 15 Extreme Climate Projections and Risks in China Ying Xu, Chonghai Xu, and Jing Feng 16 Coastal Cities’ Adaptation to Climate Change Cao Lige, Su Buda, Zhai Jianqing, Marco Gemmer, and Zhan Mingjin

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Book SynopsisA special volume in the Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment series, this English-language volume is an edited collection of articles selected from the Chinese-language Annual Report on Actions to Address Climate Change (2013): Focus on Low-carbon Urbanization. This volume provides information on how China views the challenge of climate change and seeks to rectify the extraordinary confusion found in the West on China’s green energy future and its larger perspectives on this extraordinarily crucial topic. Contributors in this volume provide a bigger picture of international negotiations on climate change; discuss China’s national actions on green energy and sustainability and how national policies are implemented at the local level; and examine challenges and potential of developing green energy resources in China.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 Low-carbon Urbanization: China’s Strategic Choice in Response to Climate Change  Preparation Group of the General Report 2 Global Achievement of 2°C Temperature Rise and China’s Emission Peak Value  Jiang Kejun 3 Progress of Negotiations on Funding Mechanisms of Climate Change and Suggestions on China’s Participation in Constructing Funding Mechanisms  Zhang Wen and Pan Xun 4 Energy and Carbon Emission Issues in China’s Urbanization  Hu Xiulian 5 Evaluation of the Progress of the Low-carbon Work in the Pilot Provinces and Cities  Ding Ding and Yang Xiu 6 Viewing China’s Green Building Development from a Green Building Label Evaluation  Li Xun and Li Congxiao 7 Review of the Urban Low-carbon Transportation System in the Pilot Regions  Huang Liya 8 Preparation Methods for and Content Framework of the Chinese Urban Greenhouse Gas Inventories  Bai Weiguo 9 Collaborative Governance of Low-carbon Development and Adaptation: Based on the Perspective of Sustainable Urbanization  Zheng Yan 10 Effects of Climate Change on China’s Typical Urban Agglomerations and Its Potential Risks  Xu Ying, Zhou Botao, Guo Wenli, Mu Haizhen and Xie Xinlu 11 Climate Change and the Layout of Urban Planning: Taking Beijing as an Example  Fang Xiaoyi 12 Analysis and Countermeasures of China’s Fog and Smog Trend  Zhang Ying, Gao Rong and Chao Qingchen 13 Countermeasure Analysis for Urban Climate Vulnerability and Adaptability: Taking the Beijing “July 21” Extraordinary Rainstorm as an Example  Xie Xinlu, Ye Dianxiu and Zhang Cunjie 14 Impact of Land Use Change on Low-carbon City Construction in Shenzhen  Liu Weiling, Zhang Linbo and Zhang Lili 15 Migration Planning and Its Practice for Adaptation to Climate Change: Ningxia Climate Migration Case  Meng Huixin 16 Constructing a Low-carbon Urban Area, and Promoting Intelligent Development: Experimentation and Practice in Xiacheng District, Hangzhou City  Bao Jianqiang and Ye Ruike 17 Positive Interaction between Low-carbon Urban Construction and Industrial Development: Taking Jiyuan City as an Example  Cong Jianhui, Liu Xuemin and Zhu Jing 18 Synergy Research on Overall Urban-rural Planning and Low-carbon Development: Taking Guangyuan City as an Example  Huang Liming, Zhou Yong and Liu Jianbo 19 Socio-economic, Energy and Carbon Emission Indexes of Various Countries, Regions and Cities  Data Handling: Zhu Shouxian 20 Global Climatic Disaster and Loss Statistics  Data Arrangement and Calculation: Su Buda and Huang Jinlong 21 Historical Statistics of Climatic Disasters in China  Data Arrangement and Calculation: Su Buda and Huang Jinlong Index

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Book SynopsisSpaces in-between goes beyond the emphasis on externalities signalled by the term ‘environment’ to address the isolation of modern technological culture from nature. Solutions require more than an awareness of ‘natural surroundings’ and human destructiveness. We think in terms of the re-conceptualization, re-design and re-negotiation of space. The book is concerned with social practices, belief systems, urban designs, the organization and representation of landscapes and modes of living. These aspects of ‘spatiality’ suggest how to conceive and practice the intermingling of nature and culture and how to develop public commitment to such practices. In the process we show how concern for the environment as an aspect of space helps us to reconceive and reinterpret what it means to be human.Table of ContentsIntroduction Reconsidering Environment: Spatial Contexts and the Development of the Environmental Humanities, Mark Luccarelli and Sigurd Bergmann I: Lived Spaces & Political Contexts Strindberg’s Modern Ecological Subject: “Swedish Nature” Viewed From a Train, Linda Haverty Rugg The Romance of Reinhabitation: Jack London and Knut Hamsun, Peter Mortensen A Cosmopolitan Sense of Place, Carmen Flys Junquera Hannah Arendt on Transcendence in the Public Sphere, Firmin DeBrabander “City Creeks: Lessons in Sustainable Environmental Discourse from a Florida Boom Town”, Thomas Hallock Allotment and Community Gardens: Commons in German Cities, Werner Bigell II: Reconceiving Environmental Space Natural or Political Public Space? Spaces of Interpretation, Environmentalism, and the Sacred Depth, Forrest Clingerman Reconstituting the geographical place: the design of public spaces of exception in the contemporary city, Rodrigo Coelho Living in Bubbles: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherology and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller Conclusion Medieval Green Cities: Third Space and the Challenge of History, Mark Luccarelli Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection features articles that originally appeared in the first three volumes of the Chinese edition of China Environment and Development Review. Written by longtime students of China’s environmental challenges and experts working on the research and policy-making frontlines, these pieces provide an evolutionary perspective on both the intellectual understanding of and efforts to address the country’s growing environmental woes. As the environmental condition has continued to worsen in recent decades, Chinese researchers have made admirable efforts toward grappling with the immensity of the problems, including institutional factors that have either compounded or obstructed efforts to mitigate them. Case studies show what works or does not in what will no doubt be a long and difficult journey toward sustainable development and environmental restoration.Table of ContentsForeword vii Zheng Yuxin List of Figures and Tables xi List of Contributors xiv 1 Introduction: China’s Environment and Development Challenges 1 Zheng Yisheng 2 Understanding Environmental Pollution in China: An Analysis of Its Key Features 21 Guo Xiaomin 3 China’s Forest Quality: The Missing Agenda 51 Shen Xiaohui 4 The Ecological Impact of Institutions and Policies on the Inner Mongolian Steppe Ecosystem 69 Dalintai 5 Understanding China’s Ecological Restoration Projects: A Study of the Grain for Green Program 87 Xu Jintao, Jiang Xuemei and Yi Fujin 6 Water Scarcity in China 99 Chen Shaojun 7 A New Approach to Conservation in Western China 117 Shen Xiaoli, Li Shengzhi and Lü Zhi 8 Natural versus Human Disturbances of Old-growth Forests 141 Shen Xiaohui, Piao Zhengji 9 Protecting Biodiversity by Means of Promoting Cultural Diversity: A Case Study of the Reindeer-herding Ewenki People 161 Han Nianyong 10 Environmental Rule of Law in China Today 173 Wang Jin and Wang Mingyuan 11 Local and Central Governments: Impulsive Investments and Sustainable Development 189 Shen Keting 12 Public Expenditure and China’s Environmental Targets 206 Wu Jian and Ma Zhong 13 Green GDP Accounting Research in China: Looking Back and Forward 213 Wang Jinnan, Yu Fang, Jiang Hongqiang, and Cao Dong 14 Green GDP Accounting in China: Controversies and Progress 230 Gao Minxue 15 Environmental Resource Allocation: Inefficiency and Inequity 245 Zhang Shiqiu 16 Ecological Values and Capitalism 258 Lu Feng 17 Water Scarcity, Water Transfer and Water Trade in China 268 Zhang Xiao 18 Water Rights: A Legal Analysis 293 Zhao Hongmei and Chen Jie 19 Breaching Barriers: Chinese Environmental NGOs Come of Age 311 Fu Tao Index 331

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Book SynopsisThis volume of the Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment series is a translation of selections from the 2015 or the 10th edition of the Annual Report on Environment Development of China. Friends of Nature, which has been organizing the writing and compilation of the Annual Report, is the first and continues to be one of the most influential Chinese environmental NGO. Articles in the current volume, written by a group of academics, independent scholars, activists and journalists cover recent development in a host of environment-related issues in China, including air pollution control, plans and policies on coal consumption, recent developments in environmental criminal justice, China’s role in Antarctic marine conservation, among other topics.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 China’s Growing Environmental Civil Society  ZHANG Shiqiu 2 Lessons from “APEC Blue” about Air Pollution Control in China  ZHAO Lijian 3 Controlling Aggregate Coal Consumption: Plans and Policies  CHEN Dan, LIN Mingche, and YANG Fuqiang 4 Revisiting the Private Automobile Ownership Debate after 20 Years  SHI Jian 5 Soil Remediation: Still a Long Road Ahead  LIU Hongqiao 6 Progress in China’s Environmental Legislation in 2014  QIE Jianrong 7 The Financial Sector and Environmental Risks: Understanding the New Environmental Protection Law  WANG Xiaojiang and WANG Tianju 8 Recent Developments in Environmental Criminal Justice  YU Haisong and MA Jian 9 Environmental Information Disclosure Made Breakthroughs in 2013–2014  WU Qi 10 China’s New Urbanization Plan and Sustainable Consumption  CHEN Hongjuan and CHEN Boping 11 The Imminent Threat of Tropical Viruses: Lessons from the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in Africa  SHEN Xiaohui 12 Chinese React to Jack Ma’s Hunting Trip to UK  LIU Qin 13 Reflections on Outbound Investment by China’s Mining Industry  BAI Yunwen and BI Lianshan 14 A Case for Banning Illegal Timber Imports in China  YI Yimin 15 Chinese Involvement in Brazil’s Development: Massive Investments Bring Environmental and Cultural Challenges  ZHOU Lei and Petras Shelton ZUMPANO 16 China’s Role in Antarctic Marine Conservation  CHEN Jiliang 17 Real-time Information Disclosure under Blue Sky Roadmap II  Jointly released by the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs; Society of Entrepreneurs & Ecology (SEE); the Institute of Environmental Policy and Planning, Renmin University of China; Friends of Nature; EnviroFriends; Nature University 18 An NGO Review of China’s Carbon Market  Greenovation Hub 19 Perverse Incentives: Electricity Generation through Waste Incineration and Renewable Energy Subsidy  The Rock Environment & Energy Institute Appendix I: Chronicle of Major Events in 2014 Appendix II: Green Book of Environment Evaluation of China’s Environmental Performance in 2014 Appendix III: Air Quality Ranking for 2014 of Provincial Capitals and Central Government-Controlled Municipalities Appendix IV: List of Environmental Protection Laws and Regulations Released in 2014 Appendix V: A Letter to the Government about Mandatory Protective Book Jackets Appendix VI: Friends of Nature Suggestions for Amending the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law Appendix VII: Friends of Nature Continues to Urge Relaxation of Eligibility Requirements for Litigants in Environmental Public Interest Suits Appendix VIII: A Petition Calling for Releasing for “Soliciting Public Opinions and Ensuring that the Newly Revised Standards for Controlling Pollution from Residential Waste Incineration by July 1, 2014” Appendix IX: 2014 Winners of Ford Motor Conservation & Environmental Grants, China Appendix X: 2014 Winners of Best Environmental Report Award in China Appendix XI: 2014 Winners of UNEP Champions of the Earth Award Appendix XII: 2014 Winners of the Green China • 2014 Environmental Protection Achievement Award Index

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Book Synopsis"Dit is het eerste boek dat een breed overzicht van agrarisch natuurbeheer in Nederland geeft. Naast de actuele stand van zaken schetst het boek perspectieven voor de toekomst die inpasbaar zijn in de bedrijfsvoering. Het eerste deel gaat in op de ontwikkeling van het natuur- en landbouwbeleid en van de organisaties die zich voor agrarisch natuurbeheer inzetten. Het tweede deel geeft een overzicht van de ecologische aspecten, waarbij naast weidevogels, akkervogels en ganzen, ook sloten, opgaande begroeiing, erven en gebouwen aan bod komen. Ook worden de functies van biodiversiteit voor de landbouw belicht. Het derde deel behandelt de inpasbaarheid in de bedrijfsvoering en de betekenis voor verbreding van de landbouw. Het afsluitende hoofdstuk schetst de perspectieven voor natuur in het boerenland. Aan dit boek hebben ruim 40 auteurs meegewerkt, die tezamen een breed spectrum aan disciplines bestrijken. Het is bedoeld voor een ieder die met agrarisch natuurbeheer te maken heeft of daarin geïnteresseerd is."

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