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“ajiang chen”

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  • Chinese "Cancer Villages"

    Rural Development, Environmental Change and Public Health

    by Ajiang Chen, Pengli Cheng, Yajuan Luo ...
    Translated by Jennifer Holdaway ...
    The phenomenon of cancer villages has emerged in many parts of rural China, drawing media attention and becoming a fact of social life. However, the relationship between pollution and disease is often hard to discern. Through sociological analysis of several villages with different social and economic structures, the authors offer a comprehensive, historically grounded analysis of the coexistence ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Dead Epidemiologists

    On the Origins of COVID-19

    by Rob Wallace ...
    A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • The River Runs Black

    The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • China's Past, China's Future

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development

    An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth", a disturbing book. This new volume, drawn on a much broader canvas, updates and expands on the basic arguments and perceptions of "The Bad Earth". This book is not a systematic litany of what went wrong and how much - but rather an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Toxic Politics

    China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State

    by Yanzhong Huang ...
    Environmental degradation in China has not only brought a wider range of diseases and other health consequences than previously understood, it has also taken a heavy toll on Chinese society, the economy, and the legitimacy of the party-state. In Toxic Politics, Yanzhong Huang presents new evidence of China's deepening health crisis and challenges the widespread view that China is winning the war ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • World Livestock 2013: Changing Disease Landscapes

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The World Livestock 2013: Changing disease landscapes looks at the evidence of changing disease dynamics involving livestock and explores three key areas: the Pressure, including drivers and risk factors that contribute to disease emergence, spread and persistence; the State, describing the disease dynamics that result from the Pressure and their subsequent impact; and the Response, required both ... Read more

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  • Mao's Bestiary

    Medicinal Animals and Modern China

    by Liz P. Y. Chee ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal parts and tissue have ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Red Revolution, Green Revolution

    Scientific Farming in Socialist China

    by Sigrid Schmalzer ...
    In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more "red," or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.In Red Revolution, Green ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forces of Nature

    New Perspectives on Korean Environments

    Edited by David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, Albert L. Park ...
    Series series The Environments of East Asia
    Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to foreground non-human agents that have long been marginalized in Korean studies, placing flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions that ... Read more

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  • China's Engine of Environmental Collapse

    by Richard Smith ...
    As the world hurtles towards environmental oblivion, China is leading the charge. The nation's CO2 emissions are more than twice those of the US with a GDP just two-thirds as large. China leads the world in renewable energy yet it is building new coal-fired power plants faster than renewables. The country's lakes, rivers, and farmlands are severely polluted yet China's police state can't suppress ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China and the Environment

    The Green Revolution

    Edited by Sam Geall ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change. But how are Chinese people really coming to grips with environmental problems? This book ... Read more

    $26.49 USD