Environmental Health Research Briefs and Fact Sheets (2008/2009)

These topic briefs were all written as a part of the CEF's partnership with Western Kentucky University on the U.S. AID-supported China Environmental Health Project (CEHP), and can be found in HTML listed topically on our <a href= "http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1421&fuseaction=topics.categoryview&categoryid=EE4F578C-D321-2150-ABD87895FEF607D8">Environmental Health page</a>.

Issues in this Series

Boomtown Energy Drain: Promoting Energy Efficiency in China's Buildings

Alan Campana

Wising Up: Smart Grid as New Opening for U.S. China Energy Cooperation

Kexin Liu

Electric Cars: The Drive for a Sustainable Solution in China

Peter Marsters

Taking the Pulse: The One-Year Anniversary of China's Open Government Information Measures

Tod Kaiser and Rongkun Liu

Waste Mismanagement: China's Struggle with Medical Trash

Mao Zhimin

Positive Spillover? Impact of the Songhua River Benzene Incident on China' s Environmental Policy

Nat Green

Carbon Trading in China

Mao Zhimin

Hedley Environmental Index Sheds New Light on Hong Kong's Air Pollution

Eric Cheng and Rui Luo

Climate Change Impacts on China's Environment: Biophysical Impacts

Elisa Chih-Yin Lai

China's Power in Wastewater

Jenny Lieu

Quest for Clean Water: China's Newly Amended Water Pollution Control Law

Jingyun Li and Jingjing Liu

Victory: A Grassroots NGO Empowers a "Cancer Village" to Take Action

Skye Gilbert

Environmental Health Challenges in Xinjiang

Erika Scull

Taihu: Green Wash or Green Clean?

Pei-yu "Catherine" Tai and Linden Ellis

Lead Batteries: Re-Charging China's E-Waste Disposal

Kimberly Go and Erika Scull

Interconnected Forests: Global and Domestic Impacts of China's Forestry Conservation

Ma Tianjie

Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV) Law Cases

Mayu Suzuki and Kimberly Go

Wielding the Double-Edged Sword: The Chinese Experience with Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms

Ma Tianjie

Trial by Fire: A Chinese NGO's Work on Environmental Health Litigation in China

Kimberly Go, Mayu Suzuki, and Qu Xiaoxia

Implementation of Biogas Digestion to Clean up China's Livestock Industry and Provide Rural Energy

Fan Feng

Cars in China: Personal Vehicles Make Tracks

Linden Ellis, Kimberly Go, Debbie Y. Lee, and Monty McGee

Growing up in a Leaded Environment: Lead Pollution and Children in China

Debbie Lee

"Garbage Villages:" Growing Waste Problems in Rural China

Fan Feng

Management of Municipal Solid Waste in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Julia Ross

A Village Perspective of Rural Healthcare in China

Anna Lora-Wainwright

Going Organic

Natalie Baer

The Spread of Organic Food in China

Natalie Baer

Environmental and Health Threats from Cement Production in China

Jung-Myung Cho and Suzanne Giannini-Spohn

Water-borne Illness in China

Christine E. Boyle

The Management of Hazardous Waste in China

Zhang Jialing

Child Mortality and Water Pollution in China: Achieving Millennium Development Goal 4

Debbie Y. Lee

Food Safety in China

Yang Yang and Jennifer L. Turner

The Management of Imported Solid Waste in China

Jialing Zhang

Aquaculture and Environmental Health in China

Linden Ellis and Jennifer L. Turner

Aquaculture: Chinese Language Edition

Zhang Liwen, Zhou Yujing, and Fan Enyuan

Food Safety Laws and Regulations in China

Yang Yang

Environmental Health and Indoor Air Pollution in China

H. Dean Hosgood, III
Pictures from Xuanwei, China courtesy of Dr. Qing Lan.

Highlights of Water Pollution Control Laws and Regulations in China

Yang Yang

Coal Mining and Environmental Health in China

Yang Yang

Desertification and Environmental Health Trends in China

Linden Ellis

Pesticides and Environmental Health Trends in China

Yang Yang

Highlights of Pesticide Laws and Regulations in China

Yang Yang

Environmental Health and China's Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)

Linden J. Ellis

Transboundary Air Pollution—Will China Choke On Its Success?

Juli S. Kim

China as E-Waste Dumping Ground: A Growing Challenge to Ecological and Human Health

Samantha L. Jones

A Toxic Trade: Ship Breaking in China

Samantha L. Jones

Environmental and Health Challenges of Municipal Solid Waste in China

Samantha L. Jones

Medical Waste and Health Challenges in China

Samantha L. Jones

Highlights of Waste Control Laws and Regulations in China

Samantha L. Jones

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