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Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River:

Nature and Power in the People's Republic of China
  • ISBN-13: 9781597265515
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By R. Edward Grumbine
  • Price: AUD $91.99
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2010
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Self-help & personal development [VS]
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China's meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the country has been tapped to power exploding cities and factories'every river but one. Running through one of the richest natural areas in the world, the Nujiang's raging waters were on the verge of being dammed when a 2004 government moratorium halted construction. Might the Chinese dragon bow to the ""Angry River""? Would Beijing put local people and their land ahead of power and profit? Could this remote region actually become a model for sustainable growth?
 
Ed Grumbine traveled to the far corners of China's Yunnan province to find out. He was driven by a single question: could this last fragment of wild nature withstand China's unrelenting development? But as he hiked through deep-cut emerald mountains, backcountry villages, and burgeoning tourist towns, talking with trekking guides, schoolchildren, and rural farmers, he discovered that the problem wasn't as simple as growth versus conservation.
 
In its struggle to ""build a well-off society in an all-round way,"" Beijing juggles a host of competing priorities: health care for impoverished villagers; habitat for threatened tigers; cars for a growing middle class; clean air for all citizens; energy to power new cities; rubber for the global marketplace.
 
Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River is an incisive look at the possible fates of China and the planet. Will the Angry River continue to flow? Will Tibetan girls from subsistence farming families learn to read and write? Can China and the United States come together to lead action on climate change? Far-reaching in its history and scope, this unique book shows us the real-world consequences of conservation and development decisions now being made in Beijing and beyond.
Introduction
 
Chapter 1. The Highest Good
Chapter 2. The Frontier and the Middle Kingdom
Chapter 3. Under the Jade Dragon
Chapter 4. Old Mountains, Young Parks
Chapter 5. In the Land of Twelve Thousand Rice Fields
Chapter 6. Into the Great Green Triangle
Chapter 7. The Dragon Meets the Angry River
Chapter 8. China 2020
Chapter 9. Conservation with Chinese Characteristics
 
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
"With much information on Beijing's efforts to reach an equitable solution, Grumbine's careful reconsideration of world conservation efforts is an important read for policy makers and grassroots advocates."
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