Environmental Protection Policy and Experience in the U.S. and China's Western Regions

by Guo, Sujian; Kassiola, Joel J.; Zhang, Jijiao; Gen, Sheldon; Guo, Qian; Hao, Shiyuan; Holzman, Barbara A.; Kassiola, Joel J.; Liu, Xiao Hang; Pahl, Gary W.; Peng, Yin; Shi, Guoqing; Sumei, Fang; Yi, Guan; Yujun, Li; Zhong, Qiu; Zhou, Jian

• ISBN13: 9780739147429
• ISBN10: 0739147420
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-14
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

China is a multiethnic country with a vase territory, a land of diverse ecosystems. With the drive for industrialization in China and the implementation of a western grand development strategy in western regions, both governments and people face great challenges in environmental protection and sustainable use of biodiversity resources as a result of growing interaction between human activities and the natural environment. To meet the challenges, governments in these regions need to adopt a series of important policy measures not only to reduce industrial emissions but also to return farmland to forests and pasture to grasslands and to implement measures of ecological migration to reduce human activities in ecological conservation areas. In this regard, China must not only learn profound lessons from industrialized countries but also search for international cooperation. The United States provides some good comparative case studies on environmental protection, grassroots environmental management, and conservation policies in western regions. This book attempts to address key questions about Chinese and U.S. environmental policies by looking at the historical development of environmental protection and the current environmental policies in the western regions of the two countries. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Sujian Guo is professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for U.S.-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University, with concurrent appointments as associate dean and distinguished professor at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University, China. Joel J. Kassiola is dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and professor of political science at San Francisco State University. Zhang Jijiao is professor in the institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and founder and chair of the Commission on Enterprise Anthropology, China.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction: Ecological and Environmental Challenges in China's Western Regions	p. 1
Lessons from the U.S. Experience for China
American Agricultural Conservation as a National Policy: Lessons for China's Great West Development	p. 7
Grassroots Environmental Management in the Western United States: Can It Be a Model for Success for Western China?	p. 27
Values Conflict in American Environmental Federalism, with Implications for China	p. 47
Urban Growth Control and Farmland Preservation in West China	p. 63
Archaelogical Site Management as Environmental Policy in the United States and China: Implications for Western Expansion in China	p. 73
Chinese Environmental Policy and Experience
Environmental Consciousness Change: A Comparative Study of the United States and China (1950-2008)	p. 85
Urban Environmental Protection Policies and Their Effects in China	p. 109
Ecological and Environmental Migration in China: Policy and Practice	p. 131
ôCities Besieged by Garbageö and Counter-measures for Environmental Protection in Western Cities: A Case Study of Solid Waste Classification in Kunming	p. 149
Ecological Migration Practices and the Placement of Migrants and Its Impact on Poverty Alleviation and Development: A Case Study of the Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County Guangxi	p. 176
Index	p. 189
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