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A political scientist and an urban architect explore China's
odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its
massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates
hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco-Cities to
Sustainable City-Regions is the first book-length study combining
analysis of politics and power, urban design and planning issues
derived from the co-authors' interdisciplinary research, and
on-site fieldwork from their political science and architectural
area specialties. Begun in 1986, little-known policy actions have
taken shape in the building of 285 eco-cities--and growing. What
are the driving forces of these innovative developments? How is
China going about converting its teeming urban areas into
replicable and showcase cities? Can these new policy initiatives
overcome the damage done to its air, waterways, and land, while
significantly reducing public health dangers to its inhabitants? In
searching for means for the People s Republic of China to take the
next step from eco-cities to sustainable city-regions, the
co-authors assess the potential success of China's present course
and offer key recommendations for Chinese political leaders, urban
planners, and citizen stakeholders to make the transition to a
sustainable future for its people and the rest of the world. The
primary market for this book will be eco-researchers, Asian studies
scholars and teachers, eco- and urban architects, environmental and
urban policy professionals, and advanced undergraduates in
environmental and sustainability studies or sciences programs. The
interdisciplinary reach and critical framework of analysis will
appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in Chinese
ecological strides and seeking a critical assessment of its
potential.
A political scientist and an urban architect explore China's
odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its
massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates
hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco-Cities to
Sustainable City-Regions is the first book-length study combining
analysis of politics and power, urban design and planning issues
derived from the co-authors' interdisciplinary research, and
on-site fieldwork from their political science and architectural
area specialties. Begun in 1986, little-known policy actions have
taken shape in the building of 285 eco-cities--and growing. What
are the driving forces of these innovative developments? How is
China going about converting its teeming urban areas into
replicable and showcase cities? Can these new policy initiatives
overcome the damage done to its air, waterways, and land, while
significantly reducing public health dangers to its inhabitants? In
searching for means for the People s Republic of China to take the
next step from eco-cities to sustainable city-regions, the
co-authors assess the potential success of China's present course
and offer key recommendations for Chinese political leaders, urban
planners, and citizen stakeholders to make the transition to a
sustainable future for its people and the rest of the world. The
primary market for this book will be eco-researchers, Asian studies
scholars and teachers, eco- and urban architects, environmental and
urban policy professionals, and advanced undergraduates in
environmental and sustainability studies or sciences programs. The
interdisciplinary reach and critical framework of analysis will
appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in Chinese
ecological strides and seeking a critical assessment of its
potential.
This collection of essays by noted academicians, lawyers, energy
agency administrators, and research analysts focuses on the
political and legal aspects of the acid rain debate, the policy
options for resolving the controversy, and the international
dimensions of acid rain control. The contributors highlight
concerns drawn primarily from the developing study of acid rain in
political science, economics, public administration, and policy
analysis--concerns that are the focal point of the public debate
over the nature, impact, and cost of acid rain and the mitigation
of its effects. The book complements the impressive body of
research from the natural sciences and responds to the need for
applied study to help resolve the current policy stalemate on this
critical environmental issue. The Acid Rain Debate features a
comprehensive annotated bibliography on acid rain and relevant
social science research.
This book responds to the some of the twenty-first century's most
assuming problems of our times: global warming, sub-national
terrorism, natural resource depletion, and economic, environmental
and financial crises. It finds short- and long-term solutions to
these global woes by looking to the city as the fulcrum for
introducing sustainability around the world. Beginning with an
outline of a robust strategy of sustainable cities-or sustainable
city-regions-that has emerged out of over two-and-a-half decades of
theoretical and practical work, the authors show why these
portentous problems can best be addressed at the local-regional
scale. In the process, this book cuts through the received wisdom
and popular misunderstandings about sustainability and peels away
the conceptual fog and ideological confusion about the meaning of
sustainability. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in North America,
Europe and Asia, the authors examine both strong and weak examples
of sustainable city approaches that validate their distinctive
urban sustainability strategy. They discover keen insights and
important lessons in these case studies for sustainability practice
across the globe, whether in small towns in the US and Canada,
large cities in Europe or tiny Chinese villages in Asia. Their
concluding chapter argues that only the road less travelled holds
real promise of creating sustainable city-regions around the world
guided by the toolkit of ecological and technological conviviality.
This collection of essays by noted academicians, lawyers, energy
agency administrators, and research analysts focuses on the
political and legal aspects of the acid rain debate, the policy
options for resolving the controversy, and the international
dimensions of acid rain control. The contributors highlight
concerns drawn primarily from the developing study of acid rain in
political science, economics, public administration, and policy
analysis--concerns that are the focal point of the public debate
over the nature, impact, and cost of acid rain and the mitigation
of its effects. The book complements the impressive body of
research from the natural sciences and responds to the need for
applied study to help resolve the current policy stalemate on this
critical environmental issue. The Acid Rain Debate features a
comprehensive annotated bibliography on acid rain and relevant
social science research.
" This revised and updated edition identifies the cultural
factors and specific administrative agendas that have shaped the
way we view ballistic missile technology. Three new sections
connect our recent, sudden shifts in foreign policy to ongoing
historical patterns. Whether cautioning against the "almost
neurotic pursuit of absolute security" or examining the powerful
influence of religion on military buildup, Ernest J.Yanarella
uncovers the deeply ingrained attitudes that will determine the
future of American missile defense.
The essays in this volume explore the phenomenon of foreign
industrial recruitment in terms of the experience of six
mid-American states--Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky,
and Tennessee--in attracting Japanese automobile assembly
facilities. This experience and the choice of plant sites by Mazda,
Honda, Fuji-Isuzu, Mitsubishi, Toyota, and Nissan was invariably
determined by multi-state negotiations and escalating state
government incentive packages. To understand this phenomenon and
its consequences, the essays in this volume sketch its comparative
historical, economic, and legal dimensions; examine the dynamics of
Japanese automobile investment in terms of the six site-specific
studies; and then place these industrial recruitment experiences
within a wider framework of federal-state relations and the
prospects for a national industrial policy. Part I illuminates the
background to and the comparative setting for the mid-American
competition for Japanese automobile plants in the era of
international corporate flight. Part II carefully probes the
dynamics of development in terms of six site-specific studies.
Finally, Part III places these six state industrial recruitment
experiences within the wider framework of federal-state relations.
This book makes informative reading for anyone interested in the
automobile industry, Japanese-American trade polices, and
federal-state relations.
A fascinating contribution to the scholarship of both political
science and literature, this book explores eight major genres of
contemporary popular fiction generally assumed to be essentially
devoid of political content--children's novels, Westerns,
middle-class fiction, historical novels, small-town Americana,
sports novels, American war fiction, and science fiction. By
uncovering the often covert mythical themes and cultural symbols
hidden in the plot formulas of these works--many of them
bestsellers--the essays illustrate the debt of mass-market authors
to cultural and political traditions that reach back to the origins
of the American Republic.
The dismantling of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation and the
shelving of scores of synfuel plant proposals have triggered a need
for a searching inquiry into the reasons why the initial promise of
synfuels has not been realized. In this volume a distinguished
group of political scientists, policy analysts, and energy planners
apply the critical tools of economic, scientific, and political
analysis in an attempt to illuminate why the dream of synthetic
fuels development has ended, at least temporarily. The essays
collected here grapple with a variety of problems surrounding the
rise and demise of synthetic fuels development in the 1970s.
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