March 2005
Environmental Economics: Seeing Green In The Red
China’s massive environmental problems have received widespread attention in the past two years, thanks to a flood of newspaper and magazine articles and two major books in English: The River Runs Black by American scholar Elizabeth Economy, which provides a comprehensive view of China’s current environmental difficulties, and The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by the distinguished Australian historian of China, Mark Elvin, which demonstrates that serious and widespread environmental degradation has been a persistent problem in China for at least 1,500 years.
CEQ’s far less ambitious aim is to provide a concise guide to the most critical environmental issues, what steps the government is taking to address them, what the implications of tougher environmental enforcement are for investors, and what business opportunities exist for the sale of environmental protection technology and services into China.
Also in this issue:
Jehangir S. Pocha introduces China’s New Left
David Murphy looks at why China is throwing its weight behind a Silk Road revival
Tom Miller examines China’s fast-growing private sector