Energizing China
Subtitle: reconciling environmental protection and economic growth
By: edited by Michael B. McElroy, Chris P. Nielsen and Peter Lydon.
Contributors: McElroy, Michael B.; Nielsen, Chris P., 1960-; Lydon, Peter, 1937-; Harvard University. Committee on Environment. China Project.
Publisher: Harvard University Committee on Environment; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: [Cambridge, MA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 719
Subjects: Environmental policy -- China.; Energy development -- Environmental aspects -- China.; Environmental health -- China.; China -- Economic policy.
Description: As China develops its booming, fossil fuel-powered economy, is it taking lessons from the history of western industrialization and the unforeseen environmental harms that accompanied it? Given the risks of climate change, is there an imperative, shared responsibility to help China respond to the environmental effects of its coal dependence?

By linking global hazards to local air pollution concerns - from indoor stove smoke to burgeoning ground-level ozone - this volume of eighteen studies seeks integrated strategies to address simultaneously a range of harmful emissions. Counterbalancing the scientific inquiry are key chapters on China's unique legal, institutional, political, and cultural factors in effective pollution control.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Studies of Phase I of the Harvard University Committee on Environment, China Project (1995-1998)."