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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTilt's remarkable... timely book, which offers a major contribution to the study of China and environmental governance in the developing world. -- Anna Lora-Wainwright The China Journal An interesting and illuminating book for scholars who wish to understand the present ecological situation in rural China and the daily conflict between values and actions that confront the local governments and citizens of China. -- Li Ying China Quarterly An important addition to environmental studies of China. -- Yan Gao H-Environment Struggle for Sustainability has something important to offer a wide audience...its manageable rendering of technical and scientific industrial production and pollution measurement reaches the nonenvironmental specialist; and its lucid prose and compelling ethnographic evidence have the potential to attract a lay readership beyond the environs of academia. -- Jennifer Hubbert American Anthropologist
Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. Environmental Values, Civil Society, and Sustainability in Post-Reform China 2. The Development Imperative 3. Saying Farewell to Communal Capital 4. The Environmental Costs of Progress 5. Pollution, Perceptions, and Environmental Values 6. Civil Society and the Politics of Pollution Enforcement 7. Struggling for Sustainability 8. Conclusion: On Contradictions Appendix: List of Chinese Characters Works Cited
