A Biodiversity Review of China
(Mackinnon et al.) 5, 39–40
Academia Sinica (Taiwan) 61–2
acid rain 10, 83
afforestation programs 9, 55–8, 63, 221,
227
Agenda 21 74, 82, 194
see alsosustainable development
agriculture 9, 25
encroachment on critical habitat 9,
50–53, 54, 58, 59
land productivity 9
loss of arable land 57
see alsoCultural Revolution, Great
Leap Forward
air pollution 10, 32, 33, 57, 139, 202
All-China Environmental Federation
38n44, 181
Alxa Social Entrepreneurs Ecology
(ALXA SEE) Ecological
Association 176, 184
American Chamber of Commerce
(Taiwan) 143, 146
Analects 19
ancestor worship 21
Asian Development Bank (ADB) 230
Asian elephant 53
Asia Pulp and Paper Company 86
Association for Promotion of the Rights
of Qigu Residents 201
Atayal tribe 2–3, 126–7
attitudes, environmental 31–4, 221
culture and tradition in 2–3, 120–21
knowledge of respondents 32, 33–4,
88–9
New Environmental Paradigm (NEP)
33
political impact of 32–3
rural/urban 32
survey studies 32, 33, 35, 114,
131n55, 179
variation by age 32, 33
see alsoorientations to nature
Australia 169banks 152
Bayer 145–6
Beijing
environmental attitudes in 33
motor vehicles in 143
NGOs 173, 176–7, 178, 189n54
Beijing Olympics (2008) 143, 187
Binnan case of biodiversity conservation
168–9, 197–208, 225
biodiversity
data collection on 39–41, 43, 46
defined 3
loss 3–5, 8–11, 16n14, 32
vertebrate diversity 47
see alsoendangered and threatened
species
biodiversity protection regime seelegal
framework, institutional framework
biogas projects 119
biogeographical regions 5–8, 39–40,
108
Birdlife International 49
black-faced spoonbill 163, 167, 168,
198, 204–5, 208
British Petroleum (BP) 144–5
Brundtland Commission (1987) 82
Buddhism 21–2
bureaucracy
and economic development 141, 208
fragmentation 84–5, 90, 92, 94, 110,
124–5, 141, 222
insularity 40–41
integration 87–90
politics and 15, 193–5, 208
businesses
in cross-strait trade 149–54
domestic organization 135–7233Index