Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

monitored by government agencies. Coal is also used for home cooking and heating. Chemical and other industrial facilities pollu ...

Climate change is a cause of species and habitat loss on a global basis, and is particularly evident in China. Today China is th ...

political processes and values. Scholars in this sub-field may compare one country to a model or pattern; they may compare a sma ...

consolidation. In 2005, Taiwan is a democratic state and China remains an authoritarian polity. The purpose of comparative analy ...

international biodiversity treaties and conventions such as the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CIT ...

and the role played by media in publicizing environmental news and opening a forum for NGOs. Chapter 8 contrasts the traditional ...

http://www.zhbgov.cn/english/biodiv/state_con/en/bidiv_value_en.htm, last accessed 13/6/2004). The ecosystem service value of th ...

Environmental Politics, 3 (3), 108. See also Peter Dauvergne (2001), Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific(Cambridge: Camb ...

Historical patterns The way nation-states address problems of biodiversity loss is likely to be strongly influenced by the pol ...

Confucianism and Legalism is explained by the authoritarian state system of imperial China, in which rulers determined orthodoxy ...

used in large ponds, then there will be more fish and turtles than they can eat; if hatchets and axes are permitted in the fores ...

Popular Religious Orientations Historians note that in the Shang Dynasty (approximately 1700 BC) the practice of ancestor worshi ...

beautiful landscape. The land becomes empty, and only with the presence of wild animals can it gain its full beauty. Nature and ...

the four seasons. At the same time he must strive to nourish the best in all creatures, bring order to the feudal lords and barb ...

among the stones decreased the pace of the river. The linkages and accumulation of bamboo stone barrels made the dike a solid an ...

Yuan Shikai (1914) to the victory of the Chinese Nationalists’ (Kuomintang or KMT) northern expedition (1928), a vacuum of power ...

Mass movements and a collectivized economy conferred some legitimacy on the communist regime. Class struggle and continuous rev ...

the 1953 census, that China’s rapid population growth would jeopardize development if not checked. For his forthright views, whi ...

Transformation of the rainforest in Yunnan province into rubber plantations denuded the soil, encouraged overhunting and defores ...

were incentives for residents to have small families. In rural areas, the army of enforcement officials (at least one million) t ...