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"Environmental History in China"
Bao wrote this paper with a view to improving understanding and co-operation between Chinese and international environmental history studies.
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"Approaches to Conserving Vulnerable Wildlife in China: Does the Colour of Cat Matter—if it Catches Mice?"
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.
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"'Getting Rich Is Glorious': Environmental Values in the People's Republic of China"
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.
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Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
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Mountains beyond Mountains: Cross-Cultural Reflections on China
A cross-cultural dialogue on the cultural and environmental history of mountains in China.
Perspectives
Crossing Mountains: The Challenges of Doing Environmental History
This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.
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The River Runs Black. The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
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State of the World 2006: Special Focus: China and India
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.
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More Than Honey
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.
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Plant This Movie
This film examines a vibrant urban farming movement that is catching on across the globe.