"Environmental History in China"
Bao wrote this paper with a view to improving understanding and co-operation between Chinese and international environmental history studies.
Bao wrote this paper with a view to improving understanding and co-operation between Chinese and international environmental history studies.
Richard B. Harris discusses China’s policies in wildlife conservation, particularly with regard to endangered species to suggest that Western criticisms of Chinese utilitarian attitudes are inappropriate, ineffective, and possibly counter-productive.
Paul G. Harris analyzes the reasons for pollution and overuse of resources in China which have profound implications for the Chinese people and the world.
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems.
This film focuses on the causes of the decimation of honey bees and their hives around the globe, a phenomenon called “colony collapse disorder,” and its consequences for not only the economy but for humans’ very survival.
This film examines a vibrant urban farming movement that is catching on across the globe.
In ¡Vivan las Antipodas!, award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky visits four rare inhabited regions of the world that are antipodal to other landmasses and creates unexpected images that turn our view of the world upside-down.
Vaclav Smil shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels.
A woman and her family live next to a recycling plant in China, in mountains of plastic waste from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.This documentary reveals the lives of those on the fringes of global capitalist realities, a far cry from the communist dream.