Content:
GENERAL REPORT
1. Standing at a New Vantage Point—China’s
Environment in 2006, the First Year of the Eleventh
Five-Year Plan ........................................................................ 3
Hu Kanping
PART ONE
THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
2. Challenges of and Prospects for Green GDP
Accounting ............................................................................. 33
Zhang Ying
3. Pan Yue’s Refl ections on the Environment ........................... 53
Hu Kanping
4. Environmental Fiscal Reform (EFR) Is the Key to
Realizing Environmental Targets in the Eleventh
Five-Year Plan ........................................................................ 63
Ma Zhong and Wu Jian
5. A Good Beginning: Environmental Legislation
in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan—A 2006 Update .............. 79
Ning Chen and Wu Zhijiao
6. Environmental Problems in Developing the New
Socialist Countryside ........................................................... 99
Wang Peng
7. Rural Society Coping with Pollution .................................. 121
Tao Chuanjin
8. The Wushan Model: Building a Sustainable New
Socialist Countryside ........................................................... 133
Sun Jun
9. Greening China’s Film Industry in 2006 ............................ 145
Guo Xiaojun
10. The Evolution of International NGOs in China:
Broadening Environmental Collaboration and Shifting
Priorities ................................................................................ 159
W. Chad Futrell
PART TWO
ECOLOGY
11. The Environmental Impacts of Large-Scale Construction
Projects ................................................................................. 189
Fan Xiao
12. Are Fences and Grazing Bans the Best Tools for
Controlling Desertifi cation? ................................................. 217
Liu Shurun
PART THREE
WATER
13. Gaining and Maintaining Access to Safe Drinking
Water .................................................................................... 233
14. Controlling Pollution in the Huaihe River Basin:
Still a Long Way to Go ........................................................ 249
Huo Daishan
15. Water Rights Trading in China ........................................... 263
Li Xi and Liu Mei
16. Mapping Water Pollution in China: Informational
Transparency at Work .......................................................... 279
Ma Jun
PART FOUR
FORESTS
17. The Ecological Benefi ts of Improving the Quality
of Forests .............................................................................. 291
Shen Xiaohui
18. Forest Rights “Reform” and Natural Forest Protection ..... 311
Feng Yongfeng
19. Chinese Wood Products Trade and the Illegal Timber
Trade .................................................................................... 327
Tamara Stark, Shi Pengxiang and Cheng Yun
PART FIVE
APPENDIX
20. Annual Indexes: Environmental Data and Trends ............. 345
Index ........................................................................................... 367
Yang Dongping is co-founder and vice president of Friends of Nature and professor of education at the Beijing Institute of Technology.
Friends of Nature was the first environmental non-governmental organization in the People’s Republic of China, established in 1994 by Liang Congjie, Yang Dongping, Liang Xiaoyan and Wang Lixiong. The organization has more than 3000 active members and has been recipient fifteen prestigious national and international awards.
Description:
This volume of The China Environment Yearbook is the second in a series of annual records written, commissioned, produced, and edited by Friends of Nature, China’s premier environmental non-governmental organization. This book provides a window on debates and events as they have affected China’s struggles toward a more just and sustainable model of development during the year 2006. Courageous essays question policies of fencing Inner Mongolian grasslands in a way that contradicts local culture and ecology; probe the wisdom of the South-to-North water transfer scheme in the upper Yangzi (and of a potentially even more ecologically intrusive mega-project called the Shuotian Grand Canal Project); and analyze shortcomings in government efforts to clean up some of China’s most heavily polluted waterways. There are candid accounts of new levels of environmental degradation in rural areas and of the difficulties encountered in China’s effort to produce a “green GDP” that would accurately reflect the costs of natural resource extraction and pollution. Other hard-hitting articles describe China’s role in the global trade in illegal logging, analyze the problem of “cancer villages,” and make clear the seriousness of problems with widespread groundwater contamination and lack of access to safe drinking water.
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