Includes bibliographical references and index.
China's environmental crisis : a global crisis with Chinese characteristics : from Confucius to cell phones / Joel Jay Kassiola and Sujian Guo -- Desertificaton in China : problems with policies and perceptions / Hong Jiang -- Network public management and the challenge of biodiversity management in China / Sara R. Jordan -- Changing climate? : China's new interest in global climate change negotiations / Wei Liang -- Environmental stressors and food security in China / Jerry McBeath and Jennifer McBeath -- State and society in China's environmental politics / Bjorn Alpermann -- Responding to climate disaster : the cosmopolitan challenge in China / Paul G. Harris -- Digital power : public participation in an environmental controversy / Yanmin Yu and Fanxu Zeng -- Confucianizing modernity and "modernizing" Confucianism : environmentalism and the need for a confucian positive argument for social change / Joel Jay Kassiola.
pt. 1. Current ecological conditions and public policies in China : desertification, biodiversity, climate change, and food security -- pt. 2. The formation and policy influences of ENGOs (Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations) in China -- pt. 3. Environmentally caused social change in China : new media technologies and traditional Confucian values updated.
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