Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

impact on national practice 76, 94,
222, 229
see alsolegal framework
Tuntex group 198–9

Unger, Jonathan 141
United Kingdom 79
United Nations (UN) 75, 206
United Nations Conference on
Environment and Development
(UNCED, 1992) 74, 81–2, 159
United Nations Conference on the
Human Environment (UNCHE,
1972) 72–3
United Nations Convention on the Law
of the Seas (UNCLOS) 73
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) 59, 148
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
MAB program 175
world cultural heritage sites 24, 84,
209
United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (FCCC) 74
United Nations World Summit on
Sustainable Development 82
United States 79–80, 100
Upper Yangtze Organization (UYO)
178–9

VACRS 126–7
vertical diffusion 14, 75, 93–4, 142–9,
187, 223, 229

Wang Canfa 177
Wang Shin 121
Wang Yongchen 212, 216
Wang Yung-ching 151–2
wastewater 10, 59
water conservation 24
see alsoDujiangyan irrigation system
23–4
water quality 10, 27, 34, 58, 59, 144, 202
water resources 9–10, 209
water shortages 11, 32, 205
Wen Jiabao 2, 88, 194, 213
West–East Gas Pipeline 61, 136, 146–8

wetlands 11, 27, 51, 58–9, 70, 148–9,

180

Wetlands International 180

Wetlands Taiwan 166, 167

Wild Animal Conservation Act (WACA)

41, 70–71, 76–8, 83–4, 110

Wild Bird Federation of Taiwan 49, 79

Wild Yak Brigade 178

Wilderness Society (WS, Taiwan) 165,

169, 183–4

Wildlife Conservation Advisory

Committee (WCAC, Taiwan) 43

Wildlife Conservation Law (Taiwan,

1989) 43, 46, 78–81

Williams, Jeffrey 146

Woolong Reserve (Sichuan) 50–51, 180

World Bank 148, 229–30

World Conservation Union seeIUCN

World Trade Organization (WTO) 29,

151

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) 50, 65n26,

111, 180, 184, 228–9

Wu Zhongchang 163, 168

Xiamen Province

Xie Yan 102, 111, 112

Xinjiang Province 46, 52

Xishuangbanna nature reserve 108

Yancheng Wetlands National Ecological

Park 148–9

Yang Guobin 181, 184

Yang Yuming 212

Yangtze River 52, 209

flooding 24, 57, 58, 63, 102

Yeh-loong group 198–9, 206

yew 175, 189n46

Yin Runsheng 58

Yu Chen Yu-ning 144

Yu Xiaogang 211–12

Yunnan Great Rivers Project 179–80

Yunnan Province 1, 28, 46, 53, 86, 112,

113, 117, 179, 209, 211

Zhang Chunshan 175

Zhejiang Province 24

Zheng Guang 230

Zheng Peiyan 181

Zhu Rongji 102

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