When a billion Chinese jump : voices from the frontline of climate change
/ Jonathan Watts
- viii, 483 pages : maps
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