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Environmental Change and Food Security in China (Record no. 24231)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781402091803
978-1-4020-9180-3
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Classification number S1-S972
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Classification number 630
Edition number 23
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-- Dordrecht :
-- Springer Netherlands,
-- 2010.
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Personal name Huang McBeath, Jenifer.
Relator term author.
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Title Environmental Change and Food Security in China
Medium [electronic resource] /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Jenifer Huang McBeath, Jerry McBeath.
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Extent X, 340p. 40 illus., 20 illus. in color.
Other physical details online resource.
440 1# - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title Advances in Global Change Research,
International Standard Serial Number 1574-0919 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 35
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Communist Rule and the Food Security Situation -- Immediate Environmental Stressors on Food Security -- Near-Term Environmental Stressors: Climate Change -- Plant Diseases, Pests and Food Security -- Invasive Species and Food Security -- Biotechnological Responses to Food Security Needs -- The Legal and Institutional Framework to Address Food Security Needs -- Issues in Implementing Food Security in China -- Summary and Conclusions.
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Summary, etc With 22 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its arable land, China’s food situation is a matter of global concern. Environmental Change and Food Security in China, is the first to introduce comprehensively the threats to China’s system of food production, distribution, and consumption. It analyzes broad challenges of population growth, urbanization, and extraordinarily rapid economic development. Then it focuses on degradation of China’s land, water and air, water sufficiency, and evidence of climate change effects as they adversely affect the food system. The study investigates plant diseases and pests which take a large toll on agricultural production and also considers alien invasive species. Normal bureaucratic routines of agricultural, land, water, climatological, and environmental agencies are inadequate to counter these challenges, and the regime has launched large projects (e.g., the South-North Water Diversion Project) and conducted national campaigns (e.g., re- and afforestation programs) which are unprecedented in their scope. Also, China has invested more heavily in agricultural biotechnology research than any other developing country. These responses have insured self-sufficiency in food staples to the present. The volume evaluates several future problems and issues in China’s approach to food security. Despite attempts to tighten coordination of policy and improve enforcement, as seen in efforts to resolve the tainted products crisis of 2007, the increased autonomy of local governments often frustrates green and clean ambitions of the state. Although the regime has tolerated environmental and other NGOs, allowed the media greater latitude to report bad news, and permitted protests that do not challenge the communist party’s authority, still civil society is weak. While economic development has lifted more than 200 million from poverty, rural/urban inequality increases, pushing the poor into China’s cities, and access to food remains a problem for many.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Food science.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agriculture.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant diseases.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climatic changes.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental law.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political science.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life Sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Agriculture.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political Science.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant Pathology.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Food Science.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Climate Change.
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Personal name McBeath, Jerry.
Relator term author.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9781402091797
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9180-3
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Source of classification or shelving scheme
Item type E-Book
Copies
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2014-04-08AUM Main Library2014-04-08 2014-04-08 E-Book   AUM Main Library630
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