China China and Global Climate Change – From Laggard to Leader? June 3, 2017 0 Written by Patrick Schroeder. In the latest turn of events in the fight against climate change, the Trump administration announced its withdrawal from the Paris…
Sustainable Development China’s environment, modernisation and investigative reporting April 10, 2015 0 Written by Jingrong Tong. In a recent book I examined environmental risk discourses constructed through environmental investigative reports and their contribution to offsetting the hegemonic discourse of…
Sustainable Development Fighting the Water Giant: Lawsuits against Veolia in China March 21, 2015 0 Written by Wang Xinhong and Hermann Aubié. One month ago in Lanzhou, a heavily industrialized city of 3.6 million people in the northwestern province of…
Water security Beyond the Water Transfer: Five Key Challenges October 29, 2014 0 Written by Sam Geall. At the end of this month, the “middle route” of China’s massive South-to-North Water Transfer project will become operational, supplying Yangtze…
Sustainable Development China and the environment: Will the sun shine? April 17, 2013 0 Written by Sam Geall. Fighting official corruption in China can be achieved through a more open “sunshine government” (政府阳光), said Chinese premier Li Keqiang in a recent…
International Relations Environmental protection and anti-corruption in China April 16, 2013 3 Written by ZHANG Jing. In November 2012, Beijing Health Bureau announced that the lung cancer rate had increased by 60 per cent from 2001 to…
Sustainable Development Too much soused pork for Shanghai: Better in the river than on your plate April 8, 2013 1 By Jackie Sheehan. Over a two-week period in March, more than 16,000 pig carcasses were dumped in the Huangpu River by pig farmers in Jiaxing,…
Sustainable Development Guerilla Agriculture: Fear and Loathing in Changsha April 2, 2013 1 By Judith Shapiro. On a recent visit to Changsha, where I lived for three years as one of the first Americans to teach in China…
