China's Economic Growth : The Impact on Regions, Migration and the Environment

by Cannon, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780312232177
• ISBN10: 0312232179
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-08-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Economic reforms in China began in 1979, which allowed for astonishing economic growth and induced profound social and environmental shifts. This volume looks at effects of the reform on the demography of the country (especially migration and urbanization) and on the environment. A third section examines various problems of environmental degradation in relation to natural processes and human efforts to mitigate their effects.

Author Biography

Terry Cannon is Reader in Developmental Studies at the University of Greenwich.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Plates	viii
List of Maps	ix
List of Tables	x
Preface	xiii
Note on Chinese Terms	xv
Notes on the Contributors	xvi
Introduction--The Economic Reforms, Demographic Processes and Environmental Problems	1	(32)
Terry Cannon
Part I Demographic Processes and the Economic Reforms
Pressures of Development on China's Cities and Regions	33	(23)
Ian G. Cook
Patterns of Migration under the Reforms	56	(35)
Mahmoud Messkoub
Delia Davin
The Floating Population in China's Cities: A New Ethnic Underclass?	91	(24)
Christopher J. Smith
Family Planning and Fertility among Temporary Migrants	115	(28)
Caroline Hoy
Part II Economic Growth and Environmental Problems
Wuhan: Policies for Management and Improvement of a Polluted city	143	(18)
John G. Taylor
Xie Qingshu
Recent Developments and Prospects for the Sanxia (Three Gorges) Dam	161	(23)
Richard Louis Edmonds
World Bank Policies, Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction	184	(26)
Lin Gan
Urban Transport in China: Whither the Bicycle?	210	(16)
Andrew Spencer
Is Ecological Agriculture Sustainable in China?	226	(25)
Richard Sanders
Part III Erosion Problems and Policies
Assessing and Managing the Soil Erosion Problem in Southern China	251	(28)
David Higgitt
Soil Erosion and Conservation on Subtropical Arable Soils in Yunnan Province, South-west China	279	(14)
Mike Fullen
David J. Mitchell
Andrew P. Barton
Trevor J. Hocking
Liu Liguang
Wu Bo Zhi
Zheng Yi
Xia Zheng Yuan
Erosion in Deep Gorges: the Leaping Tiger Gorge on the Upper Yangtze	293	(16)
David Watts
Zhou Yue
Index	309