China Environment Series 9 (2007)
Authors in this issue of the China Environment Series examine many of China's environmental health challenges, with emphasis throughout on potential steps to address these problems through regulation, better research, greater NGO involvement, and international assistance. This issue also includes a special report from the USAID-supported China Environmental Health Project.
Issues in this Series
CES 9 Full Publication
This special environmental health issue was made possible by support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and USAID.
CES 9 Feature Article, pp. 3-18
Assessing China's Response to the Challenge of Environmental Health
By Xiaoqing Lu & Bates Gill
Feature Box: Rapid Translation of Environmental Health Research into Policy and Action
By Rick Kreutzer
CES 9 Feature Article, pp. 19-42
Surf and Turf: Environmental and Food Safety Concerns of China's Aquaculture and Animal Husbandry
By Linden J. Ellis & Jennifer L. Turner
Feature Box: Greening China's Banks
By Christina Larson
CES 9 Feature Article, pp. 43-56
Is Guangdong the Dark Horse in Addressing Ecological and Human Health Threats?
By Kaleb Brownlow & Stephanie Renzi
CES 9 Commentaries, pp. 57-76
Choking On Sand: Regional Cooperation to Mitigate Desertification in China
By W. Chad Futrell
Feature Box: Driving Into the Ocean of Sand - Circle of Blue
By Jennifer L. Turner
Tackling Cross-Border Air Quality in Southern China
By Christine Loh
Institutionalizing Public Participation in AIDS Governance in China
By Fengshi Wu
Feature Box: EHP: A Portal to Environmental Heath Information in China
By Tanya Tillett
CES 9 Commentaries, pp. 77-97
High Tech's Toxic Legacy in China
By Jamie Choi
Spotlight on NGO Activism: Promoting Pesticide Eco-Alternatives
By Sun Jing
Feature Box: Highlights of International Energy Agency-China Initiatives
By Jonathan Sinton
Complex Tradeoffs: Urban Transport, Land Use, Air Quality, and Health in Chengdu
By Chris Nielsen
A Case Study in Indoor Air Pollution and Lung Cancer in Xuan Wei, China
By H. Dean Hosgood
Feature Box: Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution
By Derreck Vollmer
Feature Box: Partnership for Clean Indoor Air in Guizhou Province
By Jennifer L. Turner
CES 9 Commentaries, pp. 98-116
Exploring a Forgotten River
By Baohua Yan
Spotlight on NGO Activism: A Child's Right: Brining Water Purification Systems to China's Orphanages
By Eric Stowe
Feature Box: Chang Lin Migrants' School Program
By Steve Kloos & Qing Zhao
A Call for Transparency: China's Emerging Anti-Nuclear Movement
By Wen Bo
An Olympian Task: Alleviating Health Threats From Beijing's Polluted Groundwater
By Laurel Meng Lelan Millar & Samantha L. Jones
Spotlight on NGO Activism: A Community of Grassroots NGOs Protecting China's Rivers and Lakes
By Daniela Salaverry
CES 9 Commentaries, pp. 117-134
Breathing Better: Linking Energy and GHG Reduction to Health Benefits in China
By Kong Chiu, Yu Lei, Yanshen Zhang, & Dan Chen
Back to the Future: Bicycles, Human Health, & GHG Emissions in China
By Peter Koehn
Spotlight on NGO Activism: Shanghai Green Oasis
By Kang Hongli & Mayu Suzuki
Feature Box: China Holds the Key to Saving Wild Tigers
By Grace Ge Gabriel
Where the Wild Things Are...Sold
By Linden Ellis & Jennifer L. Turner
CES 9 Special Report, pp. 135-163
The China Environmental Health Project
By Jennifer Turner & Linden Ellis
Spotlight on NGO Activism: The Jane Goodall Institute Roots & Shoots Program in China
By April Nigh
Water Resource Challenges in the Karst Regions of Southwest China
By Chris Groves
Spotlight on NGO Activism: Natural Resources Defense Council China Program
By Alex Wang
Reaching Out to the Community in Rural Yunnan's Karst Region
By Amelia Chung
Spotlight on NGO Activism: Catalyzing Participatory Governance From the Grassroots to the County Seat
By Amelia Chung
Clearing the Air: Promoting Clean Coal Technology and Environmental Health Studies in Huainan City
By Wei-Ping Pan
Feature Box: Coal City: Measures to Control Urumqi’s Health-Threatening Air Pollution
By Zhang Chen & Rui Li-hong