When a billion Chinese jump : how China will save mankind--or destroy it / Jonathan Watts.
Watts, Jonathan, 1967-
2010
GE160.C6 W38 2010 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title When a billion Chinese jump : how China will save mankind--or destroy it / Jonathan Watts.
Author Watts, Jonathan, 1967-
ISBN 9781416580768 (pbk.)
141658076X (pbk.)
Imprint New York : Scribner, 2010.
Language English
Description xii, 435 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number GE160.C6 W38 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.700951
Summary The Asia environmental correspondent for the "Guardian" delivers a fascinating, frontline account of the current environmental crisis in China, exploring how Beijing is balancing economic growth with sustainability and whether China will "emerge as the world's first green superpower" or tip our species "over the environmental precipice."
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Linked Resources Publisher description
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
Useless trees : Shangri-La
Foolish old men : the Tibetan Plateau
Still waters, moving earth : Sichuan
Fishing with explosives : Hubei and Guangxi
Made in China? : Guangdong
Gross domestic pollution : Jiangsu and Zhejiang
From horizontal green to vertical gray : Chongqing
Shop till you drop : Shanghai
Why do so many people hate Henan? : Henan
The carbon trap : Shanxi and Shaanxi
Attack the clouds! Retreat from the sands! : Gansu and Ningxia
Flaming mountain, melting heaven : Xinjing
Science versus math : Tianjin, Hebei, and Liaoning
Fertility treatment : Shandong
An odd sort of dictatorship : Heilongjiang
Grass roots : Xanadu .

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export