Title:   Contemporary China's Environmental Stress:  Problems and Prospects

Speaker:   Jennifer L. Turner (Wilson Center / CEF)

Topic/Issues:  

1. Security of China's water supply
2. Political factors promoting or hindering environmental protection
3. Role of NGOs in preserving environmental quality

Resources:

1. China's Green Revolution and Water-Energy Choke Points (2010)
2. Choke Points (2012)
3. Energy-Water Conflict (2012)

Readings:

1. Economy, Elizabeth C. The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Cornell University Press, 2004; 2nd edition, 2010; Japanese edition, 2005; Chinese edition, 2011)
2. Shapiro, Judith.  Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History; Columbia UP, 2001)
3. Chetham, Deirdre.  Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)

    

Goals:

1. [tbd]