China's Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development - China's General Outline for Sustainable Development (Volume 10)

Author: Zhu Tan
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is Volume 10 of the "General Outline of China's Sustainable Development." It systematically summarizes and explains China's overall development and systematic progress in the field of environmental protection and sustainable development from the early 1970s to the present, covering more than 30 years. It demonstrates to the world how the Chinese government and people have taken the path of sustainable development, continuously improving their understanding of environmental protection, putting these understandings into practice, and further elevating their awareness through practice. The book is divided into three parts and fourteen chapters. The first part summarizes the significant historical progress China has made in environmental policies and strategies, environmental laws and regulations, and environmental management. The second part outlines China's environmental situation, particularly pollution conditions, summarizes the development of China's pollution control in terms of governance concepts and methods, and introduces China's technical and major achievements in pollution control from four aspects: water pollution control, air pollution control, solid waste pollution control, and noise and radiation pollution control. The third part showcases the development process of China's environmental protection efforts since 1972, when a delegation attended the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, demonstrating how China has stepped out of its borders and integrated into the world, as well as the fruitful achievements in promoting and participating in international environmental cooperation. This book can serve as a reference for decision-makers, planners, managers at all levels, as well as researchers from various international organizations, research institutions, enterprises, and university teachers and students engaged in theoretical research and practice of sustainable development. At the same time, as one of the major documentary collections of the "General Outline of China's Sustainable Development," it will be an ideal choice for book collections both domestically and internationally.