When a billion Chinese jump: how China will save mankind--or destroy it /
Watts, Jonathan
When a billion Chinese jump: how China will save mankind--or destroy it / Jonathan Watts - New York: Scribner, 2010. - xii, 435 p.: maps; 23 cm.
Includes bibliography and index.
Useless trees : Shangri-La -- Foolish old men : the Tibetan Plateau -- Still waters, moving earth : Sichuan -- Fishing with explosives : Hubei and Guangxi -- Made in China? : Guangdong -- Gross domestic pollution : Jiangsu and Zhejiang -- From horizontal green to vertical gray : Chongqing -- Shop till you drop : Shanghai -- Why do so many people hate Henan? : Henan -- The carbon trap : Shanxi and Shaanxi -- Attack the clouds! Retreat from the sands! : Gansu and Ningxia -- Flaming mountain, melting heaven : Xinjing -- Science versus math : Tianjin, Hebei, and Liaoning -- Fertility treatment : Shandong -- An odd sort of dictatorship : Heilongjiang -- Grass roots : Xanadu .
9781416580768 (pbk.) : 141658076X (pbk.) :
Environmental policy--China.
Environmental protection--China.
Environmental policy--Citizen participation.--China
China--Environmental conditions.
China--Politics and government
China--Economic conditions
951 / WAT/W
When a billion Chinese jump: how China will save mankind--or destroy it / Jonathan Watts - New York: Scribner, 2010. - xii, 435 p.: maps; 23 cm.
Includes bibliography and index.
Useless trees : Shangri-La -- Foolish old men : the Tibetan Plateau -- Still waters, moving earth : Sichuan -- Fishing with explosives : Hubei and Guangxi -- Made in China? : Guangdong -- Gross domestic pollution : Jiangsu and Zhejiang -- From horizontal green to vertical gray : Chongqing -- Shop till you drop : Shanghai -- Why do so many people hate Henan? : Henan -- The carbon trap : Shanxi and Shaanxi -- Attack the clouds! Retreat from the sands! : Gansu and Ningxia -- Flaming mountain, melting heaven : Xinjing -- Science versus math : Tianjin, Hebei, and Liaoning -- Fertility treatment : Shandong -- An odd sort of dictatorship : Heilongjiang -- Grass roots : Xanadu .
9781416580768 (pbk.) : 141658076X (pbk.) :
Environmental policy--China.
Environmental protection--China.
Environmental policy--Citizen participation.--China
China--Environmental conditions.
China--Politics and government
China--Economic conditions
951 / WAT/W