Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

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Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China and Taiwan ...

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Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China and Taiwan Gerald A. McBeath University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA Tse-Kang Leng ...

© Gerald A. McBeath and Tse-Kang Leng 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retri ...

Contents List of figures vi List of tables vii Authors viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Historical patterns 18 Current st ...

Figures 1.1 Map of China 6 3.1 Important areas of vertebrate diversity in China 47 5.1 China’s protected area system 104 5.2 Tai ...

Tables 1.1 Comparison of China’s species to world total 1.2 Taiwan’s species compared to world total 2.1 Environmental problems ...

viii Authors Gerald A. McBeath is professor of political science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he has taught and ...

Acknowledgments This book is based on extensive interviews with participants in biodiversity conservation policy-making in China ...

x Acknowledgements Co., who provided helpful advice and encouragement. We alone are responsible for errors and/or omissions rema ...

Introduction Few issues display more clearly the competition between China’s drive to become economically developed and to con ...

instead they appealed to China’s acceptance of sustainable development goals and adoption of environmental impact assessment leg ...

tourist facilities to it. Operating as a commune, this Christian aboriginal community established rules to protect its environme ...

well as informal processes that attempt to conserve biodiversity, are not only in the interest of China and Taiwan, and the East ...

threatened because of enormous pressures of population and rapid growth of the economy, which exerts heavy impacts on biological ...

include coniferous, mixed, and broad-leaf types; deserts include dwarf-tree, shrub, semi-shrub, and mat semi-shrub deserts.^20 M ...

well as the large number of endemic species, present large challenges to those who seek to preserve biodiversity. Table 1.1 conf ...

Taiwan’s long-term emphasis on economic development and its rapid industrialization have created significant adverse impacts and ...

environmental issues and problems to biodiversity loss will be clearer after discussing them with examples.^26 Deforestation is ...