The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment (eBook)

Christopher Coggins, Yifei Li (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2026
649 Seiten
SAGE Publications Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0362-0355-9 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Introduction: China’s Ecological Transformation: A Relational Approach - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
A Brief Geographic Sketch of China at the Dawn of the Third Millennium: Mountains, Rivers, Basins, Plains, and Plateaus - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Part I. Past as Prelude—The Long Journey Toward Understanding China′s Long-term Ecological Transformation
Part I Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Chapter 1. How Humans Have Transformed China’s Biosphere - Brian Lander
Chapter 2. Forests in Imperial China - Ian M. Miller
Chapter 3. Deep Waters: Environmental Histories of China’s Rivers and Hydrological Resources - Ruth Mostern
Chapter 4. Farming with the Elements: Agronomy and Ecological Wisdom in Early China - Jörg Henning Hüsemann
Chapter 5. Nature Through the Cartographer’s Eye: Depictions of Natural Elements in Ancient Chinese Maps - Han Zhaoqing
Chapter 6: Fengshui, Ecology, and the Fate of China’s Subtropical Broadleaf Evergreen Forest Biome - Chris Coggins
Chapter 7. Shifting Isohyet, Human Migrations and Inter-Asian Geographies of China: Climate Refugees and Empire Builders in the 1200s - Dan Smyer Yü
Chapter 8. Development, Environment, and Ecosystem Resilience: Water and Food in the People’s Republic of China - Stevan Harrell
Part II. Biodiversity and Wild Landscapes—Conservation and the Social Construction of Nature in Contemporary China
Part II Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Chapter 9. Animal Science, Rights, and Conservation in Republican China, 1911-1949 - David Pietz
Chapter 10. Wildlife in the Crossfire: The Legal and Ethical Challenges of Conservation in China - Deborah Cao
Chapter 11. Global China and the Wildlife Trade: Impacts on Biodiversity, Marine Ecosystems, and Racialized Public Health Risks - Jesse Rodenbiker
Chapter 12: The Resilience and Complexity of Tibetan Pastoralism: Language, Livestock, and Ritual - Tracy Burnett
Chapter 13: Bureaucracy, Vulnerability, and Environmental Research - Timothy McLellan
Chapter 14. One Size Does Not Fit All: Variable Community Interactions With Protected Areas in China, and Implications for Conservation Management - Heidi Ma, Sarah Papworth, Sam Turvey
CHAPTER 15: Evidence-based conservation management in China: understanding decision-making for a Critically Endangered Chinese cetacean - Lisa Mogensen, Zhigang Mei, Sam Turvey
Part III. Pressing Environmental Concerns in Urbanizing China Introduction
Part III Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Chapter 16. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in China’s Environmental Governance - Genia Kostka, Kyoung Shin
Chapter 17. Digital Mediation of Environmental Governance Through Gamification of Sustainability Priorities: the Case of Ant Forest in China - Ying Xu, Federico Caprotti
Chapter 18. China’s Changing Ecocinema - Haomin Gong
Chapter 19. Teaching Digital Landscapes: Incorporating Virtual Reality to Chinese Environmental Learning - Cheng Li
Chapter 20. Place-Based Earth and Environmental Education: Lessons from Southern China and the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands - Lobsang Sonam, Tsering Drolma, Chris Coggins, Nitas Syed
Chapter 21. Air Pollution Concerns: Spatial and temporal variability and drivers - Liu Wenling, Zhu Yulin, Jiang Shujing, Jia Yunhao
Chapter 22. Co-Controlling Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases: Greening Transportation in China - Hu Tao, Song Peng
Part IV. Global China, the Biosphere, and Planetary Sustainability
Part IV Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li
Chapter 23. Reactive Authoritarianism: Understanding the Caprices of Chinese Environmental Governance - Yifei Li, Judith Shapiro
Chapter 24: Sino-US Hyper-competition in the climate crisis era: The case of Critical Minerals - Sophia Kalantzakos
Chapter 25. Security, Climate Change, and the Politics of Vulnerability in China - Eyck Freymann, Raymond H. Cai
Chapter 26. China’s Climate Change Governance: Authoritarianism or Alternative to Save the World? - Chunhong Sheng, Hanyue Hua
Chapter 27. Chinese ESG and Green Finance in the Belt and Road Initiative - Ziwei Fan, Chun Kai Leung, David A. Palmer
Chapter 28. Eating the Quick and the Dead: On Feeding China’s Cities - Caroline Merrifield
Chapter 29. Socioecological Engineering in the Chinese Century - Annah Lake Zhu

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2026
• Reihe/Serie: Sage Handbooks of Modern China
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: Biodiversity conservation in China • China Environmental Research • China Environment Handbook • Chinese Ecological Transformation • Global Sustainability China
• ISBN-10: 1-0362-0355-7 / 1036203557
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0362-0355-9 / 9781036203559