PART ONE: HUMAN IMPACTS
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The firsthand observations and direct quotations in this chapter are by and large based on the
author’s 6-week visit to China in the winter of 1996 to 1997. For a more detailed account of
this journey, and the related environmental questions examined, as well as the documentary
sources for other factual points made in this chapter, please see the author’s book Earth
Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future(New York: Broadway Books,
1999). Additional research and reporting since then drew on the invaluable website main-
tained by the China Energy Project of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the
University of California, which contains links to the equally useful Beijing Energy-Efficiency
Center. Sources for most other facts contained in this article should be evident from the text.
For any additional questions, please feel free to contact the author via his website
http://www.markhertsgaard.com.
CHAPTERTWO
Colin Woodard gathered material for this chapter while on reporting trips to Europe in 2001
and 2002. Much of his original reporting can be accessed electronically through links at
http://www.colinwoodard.com/articles. He thanks the Journalism Fellowship Program of the
German Marshall Fund of the United States for its support.
The respective Dutch and Venetian flood control plans are presented in the following doc-
uments, all of which are available in English: “Rising Waters: Impacts of the Greenhouse
Effect for the Netherlands,” The Hague: Rijskwaterstaat, January 1991; “Twice a River: Rhine
and Meuse in the Netherlands,” The Hague: RIZA, 1999; “Measures for the Protection of
Venice and Its Lagoon,” Venice: Consorzio Venezia Nuova, August 1997; Atlas of the Works
Quarterly, Year VIII, No. 1/2, Venice: Venice Water Authority, January 2000. The central
arguments against the Venice plan appear in Albert J. Ammerman and Charles E.
McClennen, “Saving Venice,” Science25, August 2000, p. 1301.
The history of Venice’s fight with the sea may be found in Jonathan Kehaey’s Venice
against the Sea(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002). Visitors to the Netherlands can learn a
great deal about the history of the Dutch battle with the sea at the NieuwLand Poldermuseum
in Lelystad. Further information on Europe’s wind industry can be accessed through the
European Wind Energy Association at http://www.ewea.org.
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