China's Limits to Growth: Greening State and Society

In this book a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world studies the environmental challenge posed by China’s phenomenal economic growth.

• An exploration of the environmental challenge posed by China’s phenomenal economic growth.
  
• Written by a multi-disciplinary team of experts from around the world.
  
• Argues that China’s development poses the greatest ever challenge for the modern world in terms of speed, size and resource scarcity.
  
• Discusses issues such as cleaner production, green car technology, resettlement resulting from dam building, and biotechnology.
  
• Moves beyond the dichotomy between alarmist, radical views and moderate notions of incremental change.