China's Limits to Growth Greening State and Society [Paperback]

• An exploration of the environmental challenge posed by China’s phenomenal economic growth.
  
• Written by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world.
  
• Argues that China’s development poses the greatest ever challenge for the modern world in terms of speed, size and resource scarcity.
  
• Discusses issues such as cleaner production, green car technology, resettlement resulting from dam building, and biotechnology.
  
• Moves beyond the dichotomy between alarmist, radical views and moderate notions of incremental change.

1. Trajectories for Greening in China: Theory and Practice: Peter Ho (Groningen University, NL).

2. Environment and Modernity in Transitional China: Frontiers of Ecological Modernization: Arthur P. J. Mol (Wageningen University, NL).

3. Implementation of Chinese Environmental Law: Regular Enforcement and Political Campaigns: Benjamin van Rooij (Leiden University, NL).

Part 2. The ‘Technological Fix’: Greening Industry and Business.

4. Effects of Economic and Environmental Reform on the Diffusion of Cleaner Coal Technology in China: Stephanie B. Ohshita (University of San Francisco, USA) and Leonard Ortolano (Stanford University, USA).

5. Implementing Cleaner Production Programmes in Changzhou and Nantong, Jiangsu Province: Hongyan He Oliver (Harvard University, USA) and Leonard Ortolano (Stanford University, USA).

6. Whither the Car? l#²