《The River Runs Black》是Cornell University Press出版的圖書，作者是Elizabeth Economy
基本介紹
- 書名：The River Runs Black
- 作者：Elizabeth Economy
- 出版社：Cornell University Press
- 出版時間：2004年3月31日
- 頁數：352 頁
- 定價：29.95 美元
- 裝幀：Hardcover
- ISBN：9780801442209
內容簡介
Book Description 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...(展開全部) Book Description 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 crisis and its implications for the country’s future development. Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, Economy traces the economic and political roots of China’s environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China’s current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control. The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China’s response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country. Elizabeth Economy, director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
