China's Environmental Challenges (China Today) - Hardcover

"This revised edition has much to offer students of China's environment." Pacific Affairs Book Review "Judith Shapiro has given us an indispensable book: Vibrant, levelheaded, and up-to-the-minute, the new edition of her superb chronicle of China's environmental struggle encompasses both the global impact - reaching from Alberta tar sands to Kenyan farms - as well as the nuanced domestic politics that will shape the future. Amid her sober accounting of today's crisis, she gives us reason to hope that a country that can "make rivers flow uphill," as a Mao-era poem put it, may play a vital role in tackling climate change." Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China "In this revised and updated edition, Judith Shapiro continues to show why she is one of the foremost experts on China and its environmental challenges. She provides an insightful and accessible account of the drivers of pollution in China, its consequences for all of us, and the needed national and international reforms to address these pressing problems. Highly recommended." Ken Conca, author of Governing Water and editor of Green Planet Blues: Four Decades of Global Environmental Politics "The scars from China's economic rise run deep through the earth. Yet, as Judith Shapiro reveals, China is starting to surprise the world by pursuing some innovative, even farsighted strategies to try to slow the escalating global environmental crisis. Understanding the potential of China to do both great harm and great good is essential for anyone searching for pathways toward a more sustainable future. No other book offers such a skilled and subtle analysis of this potential as the second edition of China's Environmental Challenges." Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia [and coauthor of Eco-Business (2013) and Protest Inc. (2014)] "There is no better book available [In English] on evolving environmental policies, activism and struggles in China from the 1990s to 2015. It is highly recommended" Journal of Contemporary Asia

China's huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect the very future of the planet. In the second edition of this acclaimed, trailblazing book, Judith Shapiro investigates China's struggle to achieve sustainable development against a backdrop of acute rural poverty and soaring middle class consumption.