VOLUME OVERVIEW
China’s Long Green March: Crises and Opportunities ............. 3
Hu Kanping and Yang Dongping
PART I
WATER CRISIS
Blue-Green Algae Bloom in Taihu Lake: Refl ections on
Pollution and Development ..................................................... 39
Zhang Ke
Water Crisis in Chinese Cities in 2007 ....................................... 53
Jiang Mingzhuo
A Health Checkup on the Ecology of the Yangtze River ......... 63
Wang Yongchen
PART II
CLIMATE CHANGE
The Impact of Climate Change on China ................................ 81
Liu Haiying
Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events in China
in 2007 ..................................................................................... 99
Huang Lei
China and Climate Change from the Perspective of
International Civil Society ....................................................... 113
Fu Tao
Climate Change and Chinese Youth’s Attitudes towards
Consumption ............................................................................ 125
Zhang Kejia
PART III
URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Green Olympics and Environmental Improvements in
Beijing ...................................................................................... 137
Li Jiao
How Far is Beijing from Being an Eco-city? .............................. 153
Feng Yongfeng
Progress in Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction ...... 167
Zhao Wengeng
Green Commuting and Public Participation .............................. 181
Kang Xue
PART IV
PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Progress and Problems in China’s Construction of an
Environmental Legal System ................................................... 195
Xu Kezhu, Song Wanzhong and Zhu Fen
contents vii
Green Credit Policy in China ..................................................... 211
Yu Xiaogang
Challenges for Strategic Environmental Impact Assessments .... 223
Qie Jianrong
Refl ections on Environmental Mass Incidents in China ............ 235
Tong Zhifeng
PART V
APPENDIX
Annual Indexes: Environmental Trends ..................................... 251
Terminological Glossary .............................................................. 271
Index ............................................................................................ 277
Yang Dongping is president of Friends of Nature. A professor of education with Beijing Institute of Technology, Yang has published books and numerous articles on educational problems in China. He is also the master schemer of the Century Lyceum on the Phoenix Satellite TV where leading Chinese scholars have been invited to give speeches to the audience. His research also covers education and environmental culture.
Description:
The Institute of Green Culture (also known as Friends of Nature) has published three annual Green Books of China’s Environment, the first appearing in 2006. The first two volumes were labeled according to the year that was the subject of each “Green Book,” thus the volumes published in 2006 and 2007 in Chinese were titled as the 2005 and 2006 volumes. Beginning with the third volume of the Chinese version, the “Green Books” are labeled according to the year of publication rather than the year on which the articles are focused. Thus the “2006 Green Book” becomes The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 2 in its English version, and the “2008 Green Book” becomes Volume 3.
In each China Environment Yearbook, containing articles translated from each original “Green Book,” Friends of Nature observes and records critical events about China’s environment from the viewpoint of ordinary people, providing a perspective different from that of the government or academicians. These yearbooks offer civil society’s view on China’s historical transition to sustainable development, helping everyone understand the challenges, experiences, and lessons learned in working to protect the environment.
The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 2 was praised for its creativity and unique perspective. This was both an inspiration and a challenge to our work. Like last year, the contributors to this volume are environmentalists, scholars, NGO leaders, and journalists who are at the forefront of environmental protection in China. All of the articles are especially written for this yearbook. They embody a deep concern for the environment, and a great deal of time and effort. Like last year, we provide an annual index that provides an overall picture of the environmental situation through useful tables and charts, this time regarding events occurring in 2007.
**Statement: The English version of the China Yearbooks is in co-publication with Brill. To order the English Yearbooks, please contact Brill at sales@brill.nl
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