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The The China Environment Yearbook 2005: Volume 1: Crisis and Breakthrough of China's Environment
Author(s): Congjie Liang (Editor), Dongping Yang
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 28 May 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 440 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004156364
- ISBN-13: 9789004156364
Book Description
China’s environmental problems and ecological crises are still considerable. Pollution and ecological deterioration are becoming worse, while the booming economy and rising population are adding to the pressure. Will the PRC be able to avoid the traditional route of industrialization and embark on the path of sustainable development?
Friends of Nature is China’s first environmental NGO, and their first environmental yearbook deals with the year 2005, the year of the Songhua River toxic spill crisis, the bird flu attacks, but also of a number of governmental and local initiatives to begin to tackle the increasing pressure on the environment. Here are the voices of experts and witnesses from the PRC itself describing and commenting upon the environment and protection measures in China in 2005, from the public perspective.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[The] China Environment Yearbook (2005)… is an important work for the future of China and the rest of the world.”
Environmental Science and Pollution Research International (2008) 15
Herman F. Huang, China Review International Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009
Environmental Science and Pollution Research International (2008) 15
“Overall,
The China Environment Yearbook provides extensive data and many case studies to inform Western readers adequately of China’s environmental challenges and how they may be addressed. Its broad selection of topics will appeal to activists and others interested in China’s environmental affairs…Therefore, this book is a worthy addition to university and public libraries.”Herman F. Huang, China Review International Vol. 16, No. 2, 2009
About the Author
Liang Congjie is founder of Friends of Nature, China’s first official environmental NGO, and professor of history at the Institute of Green Culture of the International Academy of Chinese Culture. He has received several national and international awards including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service in 2000 and was selected as one of the five Figures of Green China in 2005. He is the grandson of the Qing Dynasty reformer Liang Qichao.
Yang Dongping is vice president of Friends of Nature and professor of education at the Beijing Institute of Technology.
Yang Dongping is vice president of Friends of Nature and professor of education at the Beijing Institute of Technology.
