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  • CHINA'S SOIL POLLUTION AND DEGRADATION PROBLEMS
    CLAUDIO O. DELANG
    China’s air pollution is infamous. The haze can make it impossible to see buildings across the street, and the pollution forces schools to close and creates health and morbidity problems, in addition to tremendous environmental degradation. However, China also faces another important environmental problem, which is less well-known to the public: that of soil degradation and pol...

    $660.00

  • CHINA'S AIR POLLUTION PROBLEMS
    CLAUDIO O. DELANG
    China’s rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems as well as tremendous environmental degradation. China’s Air Pollution Problems provides an overview of air pollution in China describing how and why China has ended up in such a d...

    $660.00

  • CHINA'S WATER POLLUTION PROBLEMS
    CLAUDIO DELANG
    Water pollution is one of the most serious problems plaguing China today with millions of citizens drinking water unfit for consumption. These abysmal conditions have fuelled increasing social discontent, as people become more concerned by the need to address the pressing issues of water pollution, scarcity, and waste management. This book describes how and why China has ended ...

    $660.00

  • MEASURING WELFARE BEYOND ECONOMICS
    CLAUDIO O. DELANG / YI HANG YU
    Dissatisfaction with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as an indicator of a country’s development or a population’s wellbeing led to the development of the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI). The GPI is an aggregate index of over 20 economic, social and environmental indicators, and accounts for both the welfare benefits of economic growth, and the social and environmental costs w...

    $1,420.00

  • LIVING AT THE EDGE OF THAI SOCIETY
    CLAUDIO DELANG
    The Karen are one of the major ethnic minority groups in the Himalayan highlands, living predominantly in the border area between Thailand and Burma. As the largest ethnic minority in Thailand, they have often been in conflict with the Thai majority. This book is the first major ethnographic and anthropological study of the Karen for over a decade and looks at such key issues a...

    $1,560.00