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When a billion Chinese jump : voices from the frontline of climate change / Jonathan Watts

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2010Description: viii, 483 pages : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780571239825
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.700951
Contents:
Southwest : nature
Useless trees - Shangri-La
Foolish old men - the Tibetan plateau
Still waters, moving earth - Sichuan
Fishing with explosives - Hubei and Guangxi
Southeast : man
Made in China? - Guangdong
Gross domestic pollution - Jiangsu and Zhejiang
From horizontal green to vertical Ggay - Chongqing
Conspicuous consumption - Shanghai
Northwest : imbalance
Why do so many people hate Henan? - Henan
The carbon trap - Shanxi and Shaanxi
Deserts would be great if it weren't for all that sand - Gansu and Ningxia
Flaming mountain, melting heaven - Xinjiang
Northeast : alternatives
Science versus math - Tianjin Hebei and Liaoning
Fertility treatment - Shandong
An odd sort of dictatorship - Heilongjiang
Grass roots - Xanadu
Afterword : peaking Man
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Book Book Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section Circulation C 363.700951 W351w 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 120278d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-472) and index.

Southwest : nature

Useless trees - Shangri-La

Foolish old men - the Tibetan plateau

Still waters, moving earth - Sichuan

Fishing with explosives - Hubei and Guangxi

Southeast : man

Made in China? - Guangdong

Gross domestic pollution - Jiangsu and Zhejiang

From horizontal green to vertical Ggay - Chongqing

Conspicuous consumption - Shanghai

Northwest : imbalance

Why do so many people hate Henan? - Henan

The carbon trap - Shanxi and Shaanxi

Deserts would be great if it weren't for all that sand - Gansu and Ningxia

Flaming mountain, melting heaven - Xinjiang

Northeast : alternatives

Science versus math - Tianjin Hebei and Liaoning

Fertility treatment - Shandong

An odd sort of dictatorship - Heilongjiang

Grass roots - Xanadu

Afterword : peaking Man

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