China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development

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China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development is written by Vaclav Smil and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1315288397 (ISBN 10) and 9781315288390 (ISBN 13).

In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth", a disturbing book. This new volume, drawn on a much broader canvas, updates and expands on the basic arguments and perceptions of "The Bad Earth". This book is not a systematic litany of what went wrong and how much - but rather an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society, all seen through the critical environmental constraints and impacts.