An ecological history of modern China /
"An Ecological History of Modern China is the first attempt at a comprehensive and conceptually coherent account of the process of development in modern China, from the perspective not of the economy but of the biophysical world. This book shows that development in China is desirable in many wa...
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| Idioma: | anglès |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2023]
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Taula de continguts:
- Introduction: Understanding China through its ecological history
- Part I. Setting the scene. A tour of China's social-ecological systems
- Development, revolution, and science
- Part II. Land, water, and food. Feeding a starving nation, 1949-1957
- Three years of natural disasters, 1958-1961
- Normal socialist agriculture, 1962-1978
- Solving the warm and full problem, 1978-1998
- Every last drop, 1998-2022
- Damned if you do, 1993-2021
- A toxic cornucopia, 2000-2022
- Big ag and its ecosystem effects, 2002-2022
- Part III. Cities and industry. A revolution of steel, 1949-1961
- Normal socialist industry, 1962-1980
- Factory to the world, 1984-2015
- Building an urban continent, 1980-2022
- Sludge abides, 1990-2022
- Paradoxes of eco-development, 1998-2022
- Conclusion: Chinese history as ecological history.