Watts, Jonathan, 1967-

When a billion Chinese jump : how China will save mankind--or destroy it / Jonathan Watts. - 1st Scribner trade paperback ed. - New York : Scribner, 2010. - xii, 435 p. : cartes ; 23 cm.

Comprend une bibliogr. (p. [411]-422) et un index.

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.

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Environmental policy--China.
China--Condiciones ambientales.
Política ambiental--China.
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China--Environmental conditions.

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