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China's huge environmental challenges affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this fully revised and updated third edition of her acclaimed book, noted scholar of Chinese environmentalism Judith Shapiro explores China's struggle to achieve the 'ecological civilization' championed by Xi Jinping since 2017.
Drawing on six core analytical concepts - globalization, governance, national identity, civil society, environmental justice, and extractivism - Shapiro ably demonstrates the multifaceted and complex nature of this struggle. China's precipitous economic growth has carried a heavy cost in air and water pollution, soil contamination, and loss of habitat for the biodiversity upon which human life depends. But its quest for sustainability has been further hampered by authoritarian governance patterns, soaring middle class consumption, the need to provide employment and safety nets for a population of more than one billion, and a manufacturing sector thirsty to secure global resources and sell to new markets.
Transformation to a more sustainable development model is still possible. But, as Shapiro persuasively argues, this will require humility, creativity, and a rejection of business as usual. China - and the planet - are at a pivotal moment.
Drawing on six core analytical concepts - globalization, governance, national identity, civil society, environmental justice, and extractivism - Shapiro ably demonstrates the multifaceted and complex nature of this struggle. China's precipitous economic growth has carried a heavy cost in air and water pollution, soil contamination, and loss of habitat for the biodiversity upon which human life depends. But its quest for sustainability has been further hampered by authoritarian governance patterns, soaring middle class consumption, the need to provide employment and safety nets for a population of more than one billion, and a manufacturing sector thirsty to secure global resources and sell to new markets.
Transformation to a more sustainable development model is still possible. But, as Shapiro persuasively argues, this will require humility, creativity, and a rejection of business as usual. China - and the planet - are at a pivotal moment.
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中國面臨的巨大環境挑戰不僅影響中國的健康與福祉，更關乎整個地球的未來。在她備受讚譽的書籍第三版中，著名的中國環保學者朱迪思·夏皮羅（Judith Shapiro）深入探討了中國自2017年以來，習近平所倡導的「生態文明」的實現之路。
夏皮羅運用六個核心分析概念——全球化、治理、國家認同、公民社會、環境正義和資源開採，充分展示了這場鬥爭的多面性和複雜性。中國的急速經濟增長帶來了空氣和水污染、土壤污染以及生物多樣性棲息地喪失的沉重代價，而這些生物多樣性是人類生存所依賴的。然而，對可持續性的追求又受到專制治理模式、迅速增長的中產階級消費、為超過十億人口提供就業和社會安全網的需求，以及渴望獲取全球資源並向新市場銷售的製造業的進一步阻礙。
轉型為更可持續的發展模式仍然是可能的。但正如夏皮羅有說服力地論證的，這需要謙遜、創造力，以及拒絕一成不變的商業模式。中國和地球正處於一個關鍵的時刻。
作者簡介
Judith Shapiro is one of the world's leading authorities on Chinese environmentalism. Currently professor in the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC, she is the author of the international classic Mao's War against Nature, co-author (with Yifei Li) of China Goes Green and author of the popular student text China's Environmental Challenges, now in its third edition.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
朱迪思·夏皮羅是全球領先的中國環保主義權威之一。她目前在美國華盛頓特區的美國大學國際服務學院擔任教授，並且是國際經典著作毛澤東與自然的戰爭的作者，與李怡飛共同撰寫的中國走向綠色的合著者，以及受歡迎的學生教材中國的環境挑戰的作者，該書目前已進入第三版。
