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Article: China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change
- Article from:
- The China Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, edited by Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo. Canberra: ANU ?-Press; Asia Pacific Press; Brookings Institution Press; Social Sciences Academic Press (China), 2008. xviii + 428 pp. AU$$50.00 (online), US$32.95 (print).
China has experienced spectacular economic growth over the past three decades. This unprecedented achievement has not only raised millions of the Chinese people out of poverty but also turned the country into the most dynamic and thirdlargest economy in the world. However, this has come at a price. China has been heavily dependent on dirty -burning coal to fuel its rapidly growing economy. This dependence has led ...