The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment offers a comprehensive exploration of China's environment through a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary lens. This volume presents China's environment as a series of interconnected temporal and spatial processes involving human agency and more-than-human dynamics. Contributions from leading scholars in social science, environmental science, and humanities focus on long-term environmental change, shifts in environmental perception, and the dynamic adaptations that have shaped China as both a nation and a mosaic of distinctive socio-ecological networks.
The handbook delves into the processes of human-environment relations that have shaped contemporary landscapes, ecosystems, and livelihoods within China's territorial boundaries, as well as global industrial and commercial processes affecting climate change and geopolitics worldwide. Each section of the book includes chapters that summarize key contributions to specific fields of environmental research, assess prevailing paradigms, and chart a course for future work, including calls for activist research that encourages collaborative engagement with the dynamic political, economic, ecological, and cultural processes shaping China's environment and policy.
Organized into four main sections, the handbook covers the long-term ecological transformation of China, biodiversity conservation and the social construction of nature, pressing environmental concerns in urbanizing China, and China's role in global sustainability. It provides a nuanced understanding of China's environmental challenges and achievements, emphasizing the need for multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to address the complexities of China's environment.
The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and students seeking to understand the intricate processes shaping China's environment and its global impact.
Part 1: Past as Prelude: The Long Journey Toward Understanding China's Long-term Ecological Transformation
Part 2: Biodiversity and Wild Landscapes: Conservation and the Social Construction of Nature in Contemporary China
Part 3: Pressing Environmental Concerns in Urbanizing China
Part 4: Global China, the Biosphere, and Planetary Sustainability
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Deeply impressive in its spatio-temporal and thematic scope, while simultaneously cohesive in its relational approach, The Sage Handbook of China and the Environment is a remarkable achievement. Its interdisciplinary contributions, from the environmental humanities to the environmental sciences, span topics ranging from imperial forests to climate change governance to virtual reality in Chinese environmental education. As such it will be an indispensable reference for scholars of Chinas human-environment relations from ancient times to the present, and a useful guide for anyone who wants to better understand global China in our current era of accelerating planetary change.
-- Emily T. Yeh A thoughtful and innovative collection that goes well beyond conventional accounts of Chinas environmental challenges. The Handbook on China and the Environment explores the historical foundations of Chinese conceptions of humans as transformers and producers of their environment, contemporary processes of degradation and pollution, patterns of biodiversity, conservation practices old and new, environmental governance, and the global reach of Chinas resource use and development. More than this, though, the Handbook offers a course in ecological literacy for a world in which China along with the United States plays an outsized role, and carries a greater responsibility, in charting a path toward future sustainability.
-- Tim Oakes This timely volume offers a vital introduction to Chinese perspectives, practices, and policies toward the natural world. The essays are succinct, lucid and balanced. As the world grapples with ecological crises of global scale, the insights gathered here underscore how deeply Chinas choices reverberate not only across its vast landscapes but throughout the planet. -- Prasenjit Duara It is difficult to keep up with Chinas efforts to address significant and potentially destabilizing pollution impacts, the externalities of its rapid rise, even as the country emerges as a leader in 21st-century technologies. Christopher Coggins and Yifei Li have assembled an impressive collection from leading practitioners and scholars documenting key milestones and shining light on persistent challenges. This handbook, spanning a wide range of topics from cetaceans to cinema, fengshui to fossil fuels, is essential reading for anyone interested in Chinas efforts to green itself while maintaining economic development and social stability. Hats off to Coggins and Li for producing a text equally at home on a scholars shelf, in an undergraduates backpack, or a coffee table. -- Darrin Magee
Introduction: Chinas Ecological Transformation: A Relational Approach -
Chris Coggins and Yifei Li
A Brief Geographic Sketch of China at the Dawn of the Third Millennium:
Mountains, Rivers, Basins, Plains, and Plateaus - Chris Coggins and Yifei Li
Part I. Past as PreludeThe Long Journey Toward Understanding Chinas
Long-term Ecological Transformation
Part I Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifei Li
Chapter
1. How Humans Have Transformed Chinas Biosphere - Brian Lander
Chapter
2. Forests in Imperial China - Ian M. Miller
Chapter
3. Deep Waters: Environmental Histories of Chinas Rivers and
Hydrological Resources - Ruth Mostern
Chapter
4. Farming with the Elements: Agronomy and Ecological Wisdom in Early
China - Jörg Henning Hüsemann
Chapter
5. Nature Through the Cartographers Eye: Depictions of Natural
Elements in Ancient Chinese Maps - Han Zhaoqing
Chapter 6: Fengshui, Ecology, and the Fate of Chinas Subtropical Broadleaf
Evergreen Forest Biome - Chris Coggins
Chapter
7. Shifting Isohyet, Human Migrations and Inter-Asian Geographies of
China: Climate Refugees and Empire Builders in the 1200s - Dan Smyer Yü
Chapter
8. Development, Environment, and Ecosystem Resilience: Water and Food
in the Peoples Republic of China - Stevan Harrell
Part II. Biodiversity and Wild LandscapesConservation and the Social
Construction of Nature in Contemporary China
Part II Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifei Li
Chapter
9. Animal Science, Rights, and Conservation in Republican China,
1911-1949 - David Pietz
Chapter
10. Wildlife in the Crossfire: The Legal and Ethical Challenges of
Conservation in China - Deborah Cao
Chapter
11. Global China and the Wildlife Trade: Impacts on Biodiversity,
Marine Ecosystems, and Racialized Public Health Risks - Jesse Rodenbiker
Chapter 12: The Resilience and Complexity of Tibetan Pastoralism: Language,
Livestock, and Ritual - Tracy Burnett
Chapter 13: Bureaucracy, Vulnerability, and Environmental Research - Timothy
McLellan
Chapter
14. One Size Does Not Fit All: Variable Community Interactions With
Protected Areas in China, and Implications for Conservation Management -
Heidi Ma, Sarah Papworth, Sam Turvey
CHAPTER 15: Evidence-based conservation management in China: understanding
decision-making for a Critically Endangered Chinese cetacean - Lisa Mogensen,
Zhigang Mei, Sam Turvey
Part III. Pressing Environmental Concerns in Urbanizing China Introduction
Part III Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifei Li
Chapter
16. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Chinas
Environmental Governance - Genia Kostka, Kyoung Shin
Chapter
17. Digital Mediation of Environmental Governance Through
Gamification of Sustainability Priorities: the Case of Ant Forest in China -
Ying Xu, Federico Caprotti
Chapter
18. Chinas Changing Ecocinema - Haomin Gong
Chapter
19. Teaching Digital Landscapes: Incorporating Virtual Reality to
Chinese Environmental Learning - Cheng Li
Chapter
20. Place-Based Earth and Environmental Education: Lessons from
Southern China and the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands - Lobsang Sonam, Tsering
Drolma, Chris Coggins, Nitas Syed
Chapter
21. Air Pollution Concerns: Spatial and temporal variability and
drivers - Liu Wenling, Zhu Yulin, Jiang Shujing, Jia Yunhao
Chapter
22. Co-Controlling Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases: Greening
Transportation in China - Hu Tao, Song Peng
Part IV. Global China, the Biosphere, and Planetary Sustainability
Part IV Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifei Li
Chapter
23. Reactive Authoritarianism: Understanding the Caprices of Chinese
Environmental Governance - Yifei Li, Judith Shapiro
Chapter 24: Sino-US Hyper-competition in the climate crisis era: The case of
Critical Minerals - Sophia Kalantzakos
Chapter
25. Security, Climate Change, and the Politics of Vulnerability in
China - Eyck Freymann, Raymond H. Cai
Chapter
26. Chinas Climate Change Governance: Authoritarianism or
Alternative to Save the World? - Chunhong Sheng, Hanyue Hua
Chapter
27. Chinese ESG and Green Finance in the Belt and Road Initiative -
Ziwei Fan, Chun Kai Leung, David A. Palmer
Chapter
28. Eating the Quick and the Dead: On Feeding Chinas Cities -
Caroline Merrifield
Chapter
29. Socioecological Engineering in the Chinese Century - Annah Lake
Zhu
Chris Coggins is professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Bard College at Simons Rock (Open Society University Network). He is the co-editor and co-author (with Bixia Chen) of Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation (Routledge/Earthscan, 2022), and the co-author/co-editor (with Emily Yeh) of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes of the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (University of Washington, 2014). He is the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (University of Hawaii Press, 2003) (runner-up for the 2003 Julian Steward Award for best book in environmental/ecological anthropology and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in non-fiction. He has published numerous refereed articles and chapters in geography, environment, and Asia-related books and journals. In 2019, he was selected to serve as one of fourteen scholars in Asian Studies on the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau. He is currently co-authoring/co-editing Fengshuilin: Village Fengshui Forests and Ecological Transformation in Southern China (with Bixia Chen, Jesse Minor, and Ian M. Miller).
Yifei Li is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. His research concerns various groups of people under Chinas brand of state-led environmentalism. He has received research support from the United States National Science Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, Rachel Carson Center, and many other extramural sources. His recent work appears in Current Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, Sociology of Development, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Environmental Sociology, Journal of Environmental Management, and other scholarly outlets. His scholarly work has been featured on NPR, in The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde, and other media.
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