The Resource The devouring dragon : how China's rise threatens our natural world, Craig Simons
The devouring dragon : how China's rise threatens our natural world, Craig Simons
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The item The devouring dragon : how China's rise threatens our natural world, Craig Simons represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- Argues that China's role as an emerging economic power is destroying the environment, citing their status as the largest market for endangered wildlife, top importer of tropical trees, and biggest emitter of greenhouse gases
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 289 pages
- Contents
-
- pt. 1. China's baseline
- The Yangtze
- Baselines
- The Three Gorges Dam
- pt. 2. Life on the brink
- Tiger, tiger, burning bright
- The Sixth Great Extinction
- Corbett National Park
- pt. 3. Our shrinking forests
- A forest laid flat
- New Guinea
- Our future forests
- pt. 4. Our warming skies
- Time travel
- Hopenhagen
- Isbn
- 9780312581763
- Label
- The devouring dragon : how China's rise threatens our natural world
- Title
- The devouring dragon
- Title remainder
- how China's rise threatens our natural world
- Statement of responsibility
- Craig Simons
- Subject
-
- China
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental degradation -- China
- Environmental policy
- Environmental policy -- China
- Environmental protection -- International cooperation
- Environmental protection -- International cooperation
- Auswirkung
- Environmental responsibility -- China
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- China
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on | China
- Umweltgefährdung
- Umweltschaden
- Wirtschaftswachstum
- Environmental responsibility
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Argues that China's role as an emerging economic power is destroying the environment, citing their status as the largest market for endangered wildlife, top importer of tropical trees, and biggest emitter of greenhouse gases
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Simons, Craig
- Dewey number
- 363.70951
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GE190.C6
- LC item number
- S55 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NAL call number
- GE190.C6
- NAL item number
- S55 2013
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Environmental policy
- Environmental responsibility
- Nature
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental protection
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental policy
- Environmental protection
- Environmental responsibility
- Nature
- China
- Wirtschaftswachstum
- Umweltgefährdung
- Umweltschaden
- Auswirkung
- Environmental policy
- Environmental responsibility
- Nature
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental protection
- Label
- The devouring dragon : how China's rise threatens our natural world, Craig Simons
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. 1. China's baseline -- The Yangtze -- Baselines -- The Three Gorges Dam -- pt. 2. Life on the brink -- Tiger, tiger, burning bright -- The Sixth Great Extinction -- Corbett National Park -- pt. 3. Our shrinking forests -- A forest laid flat -- New Guinea -- Our future forests -- pt. 4. Our warming skies -- Time travel -- Hopenhagen
- Control code
- ocn795174924
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312581763
- Lccn
- 2012037791
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40022068904
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780312581763
- (OCoLC)795174924
- Label
- The devouring dragon : how China's rise threatens our natural world, Craig Simons
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- pt. 1. China's baseline -- The Yangtze -- Baselines -- The Three Gorges Dam -- pt. 2. Life on the brink -- Tiger, tiger, burning bright -- The Sixth Great Extinction -- Corbett National Park -- pt. 3. Our shrinking forests -- A forest laid flat -- New Guinea -- Our future forests -- pt. 4. Our warming skies -- Time travel -- Hopenhagen
- Control code
- ocn795174924
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312581763
- Lccn
- 2012037791
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40022068904
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780312581763
- (OCoLC)795174924
Subject
- China
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental degradation -- China
- Environmental policy
- Environmental policy -- China
- Environmental protection -- International cooperation
- Environmental protection -- International cooperation
- Auswirkung
- Environmental responsibility -- China
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- China
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on | China
- Umweltgefährdung
- Umweltschaden
- Wirtschaftswachstum
- Environmental responsibility
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