Environmental Policy and Air Pollution in China: Governance and Strategy

by Yuan Xu

Book Overview

This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades.

Yuan Xu shines a light on how China's sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in tandem with rapid economic growth but then dropped to a level not seen for at least four decades. Despite this favorable mitigation outcome, Xu details...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367677342
• ISBN13: 9780367677343
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"