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Environmental Innovation in China
Author(s): D. Strangeway (Author), L. Xielin (Author), F. Zhijun (Author)
- Publisher: WIT Press
- Publication Date: 24 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 176 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845646401
- ISBN-13: 9781845646400
Book Description
China has both the capacity and the need to become a global leader in sustainable development and innovation in environmental technology. Environmental Innovation in China acknowledges many of the mistakes that have been made in the past where economic development has resulted in pollution to land, air and water but more importantly it presents a blueprint for the future with the recommendation that a National Environmental Innovation Action Plan is established. In addition, to achieve a more effective nationwide regulatory environment and to bolster public participation the creation of a National Environment Information System that would be managed by the new Ministry of Environmental Protection.
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About the Author
David STRANGWAY is President Emeritus of The University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, and the founder, first president, and first chanceller of Quest University Canada. A geophysicist by training, he oncesearved as NASA s Geophysics Branch chief, in which post he was responsible for the geophysical aspects of MASA s Apollo missions. The author of numberous research papers, he is the recipient of numerous awards for his scientific work, including the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1972. Liu XIELIN is a professor in the School of Management at Graduate University of Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, CHINA. A former visiting fellow at the Sloan School of Management, MIT,currently he is a professor in the National Research Center for S&T for Development, Ministry of Science and Technology and Vice President of the Chinese Association of Science and S&T Policy.. His research mainly involves innovation policy and management of technology and innovation. The author of many papers and several books on research policy, technical innovation. management studies, and technology management, he currently serves as an Associate Editor of the African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation & Development. Feng ZHIJUN is Vice-Chairman of the 8th Central Committee of the China Democratic League, China.
