China’s environmental challenges going rural and west

Peer Reviewed
1 January 2012

Environment and Planning

China is increasingly suffering from ‘growing pains’ of severe environmental challenges arising during the past decades’ economic boom (Fu et al, 2007; Liu and Diamond, 2008). While this has been widely discussed, more attention and effort has been focused on the problems directly resulting from urbanization and industrialization, such as growing greenhouse gas emissions and worsening urban air and water quality

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Sustainable Development Goals
Publication | 15 August 2012