China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change

by Andrew Mertha

Book Overview

Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water Warriors, Andrew C. Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801476682
• ISBN13: 9780801476686
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher