Energizing China: Reconciling Environmental Protection and Economic Growth

As China develops its booming, fossil fuel-powered economy, is it taking lessons from the history of Western industrialization and the unforeseen environmental harms that accompanied it? Given the risks of climate change, is there an imperative, shared responsibility to help China respond to the environmental effects of coal dependence? By linking global hazards to local air pollution concerns - from indoor stove smoke to ground-level ozone - this volume of 18 studies seeks integrated strategies to address simultaneously a range of harmful emissions. Counterbalancing the scientific inquiry are chapters on China's unique legal, institutional, political, and cultural factors in effective pollution control. The text is part of an ongoing programme of Harvard-China reserach collaboration.