The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China
Sep 2015 · Routledge
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As China strives to significantly increase its economic output, the nation faces an acute deterioration of the physical resources from which this prodigious growth springs. Major problems include water shortages, the pollution of water, high levels of carcinogens in the air, accelerating erosion, and industrial pollution. Originally published in 1984, Vaclav Smil documents and evaluates China’s environmental crisis. This title will be of particular interest for students of Environmental Studies and Development Studies.
About the author
Vaclav Smil is the author of more than thirty books on energy, the environment, food, and the history of technical advances, including "Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature", published by the MIT Press. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. In 2010 he was named by "Foreign Policy "as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.
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