The struggle for sustainability in rural China : environmental values and civil society /
Bryan Tilt.
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | New York : : Columbia University Press, , c2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (217 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - contents; figures; 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; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index. - Though China's economy is projected to become the world's largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country's citizens and the natural resources on which their economy depends. Capturing the consequences of this reality, Bryan Tilt conducts an in-depth, ethnographic study of Futian Township, a rural community reeling from pollution. The industrial township is located in the populous southwestern province of Sichuan. Three local factories-a zinc smelter, a coking plant, and a coal-washing plant-produce air and water pollution that far exceeds th
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| ISBN | 0-231-52080-8. - 1-282-87229-X. - 9786612872297
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