China's Limits to Growth Greening State and Society

by Ho, Peter; Vermeer, Eduard B.

• ISBN13: 9781405153904
• ISBN10: 1405153903
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In this book a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world studies the environmental challenge posed by China's phenomenal economic growth. An exploration of the environmental challenge posed by China's phenomenal economic growth. Written by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world. Argues that China's development poses the greatest ever challenge for the modern world in terms of speed, size and resource scarcity. Discusses issues such as cleaner production, green car technology, resettlement resulting from dam building, and biotechnology. Moves beyond the dichotomy between alarmist, radical views and moderate notions of incremental change.

Author Biography

Peter Ho is Professor of International Development Studies at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences and Director of the Centre for Development Studies of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is the author of Institutions in Transition (2005) and the editor of Developmental Dilemmas (2005).

Eduard B. Vermeer was formerly Senior Lecturer at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Asia Pacific Business Review and China Information.

Together with Jacob Eyferth, Peter Ho and Eduard B. Vermeer have also co-edited Rural Development in Transitional China (2004).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Part 1. From Developmental to Environmental Policies
Trajectories for Greening in China: Theory and Practice	1	(26)
Peter Ho
Environment and Modernity in Transitional China: Frontiers of Ecological Modernization	27	(28)
Arthur P. J. Mol
Implementation of Chinese Environmental Law: Regular Enforcement and Political Campaigns	55	(18)
Benjamin van Rooij
Part 2. The 'Technological Fix': Greening Industry and Business
Effects of Economic and Environmental Reform on the Diffusion of Cleaner Coal Technology in China	73	(24)
Stephanie B. Ohshita
Leonard Ortolano
Implementing Cleaner Production Programmes in Changzhou and Nantong, Jiangsu Province	97	(22)
Hongyan He Oliver
Leonard Ortolano
Whither the Car? China's Automobile Industry and Cleaner Vehicle Technologies	119	(24)
Jimin Zhao
Environmental Reform, Technology Policy and Transboundary Pollution in Hong Kong	143	(34)
Richard Welford
Peter Hills
Jacqueline Lam
Part 3. Environmental Frictions? Dams, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Resettlement Programmes and Environmental Capacity in the Three Gorges Dam Project	177	(22)
Gorild Heggelund
A Market Road to Sustainable Agriculture? Ecological Agriculture, Green Food and Organic Agriculture in China	199	(26)
Richard Sanders
Biotechnology and Food Safety in China: Consumers' Acceptance or Resistance?	225	(26)
Peter Ho
Eduard B. Vermeer
Jennifer H. Zhao
China's Limits to Growth? The Difference Between Absolute, Relative and Precautionary Limits	251	(16)
Peter Ho
Eduard B. Vermeer
Index	267