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Tag Archives: China
The long history of human-environment interactions in China
In a recent paper, JA Dearing and colleagues (J. Paleolimnology 40: 3-31) use paleolimnological techniques to explore the long-term history of the region around Erhai Lake in Yunnan Province. Lake sediment cores (which can explain catchment vegetation, flooding, soil erosion, … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptive cycle, China, Erhai Lake, historical analysis, JA Dearing, paleo-ecology, Yunnan Province
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Short links: Greening China, Fish Pirates, Resilient Communities
From ES&T news Will the Dragon Stay Green? China After the Beijing Olympics China is managing to succeed—by putting in place its tremendous industrial renovation programs, starting up monitoring for emissions, and encouraging green building and sustainable resource use, all … Continue reading
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Tagged China, pirates, resilience communities, Stockholm Resilience Centre
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Absolute poverty in China: Higher, but going down faster than previously estimated
From the Economist: In December 2007 the World Bank unveiled the results of the biggest exercise in window shopping in history. Scouts in 146 countries scoured stalls, supermarkets and mail-order catalogues, recording the price of more than 1,000 items, from … Continue reading
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Tagged China, development, poverty, purchasing power parity, World Bank
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Peter Hessler’s Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake
Yang Weihua/ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Peter Hessler, author of the excellent book Oracle Bones and a former English teacher in Sichuan province in China, writes in the New Yorker about the response to the recent Chinese Earthquake Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake: … Continue reading