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Contaminated land regimes have been properly developed in the US, UK and many other jurisdictions for decades. China may learn from those jurisdictions considering it is experiencing increased land contamination in recent years. This chapter provides basic background information for the topic that how China could learn from the US and UK with respective contaminated land legislation. This Chapter set out the structure of the book by demonstrating the justification of the research, literature review, research objectives, research questions etc.
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Li Shen, National Soil Pollution Survey Planned (19 July 2006) China.org.cn <http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/175191.htm>.
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Zijun Li, Soil Quality Deteriorating in China, Threatening Public Health and Ecosystems (27 July 2006) Worldwatch Institute <http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4419>.
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Li, above n 1.
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Pub L No 96–510, 94 Stat 2767 (1980) (codified as amended at 42 USC §§ 9601–75 (2006)).
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Environmental Protection Act 1990 (UK) c 43.
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Qishi Luo, Philip Catney and David Lerner, ‘Risk-based Management of Contaminated Land in the UK: Lessons for China?’ (2009) 90(2) Journal of Environmental Management 1123.
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Ibid.
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Some researchers observed that current environmental laws in China and regulations are vacant in the areas of toxic chemicals control and soil pollution prevention and control. See Michael I Chang, Pollution in China (Nova Science, 2011) 32. As I will discuss in Chap. 3, such expression is lack of accuracy if we look deeper into the current environmental regulatory system.
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Qi Xiaomiao, ‘Contaminated Land Redimation in China is Still a Vacancy - an interview to Zhou Qixing, Dean of the College of Environmental Science and Engineering Nankai University’ (2009) 20 Science News Bi-weekly 30.
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Daniel H Cole has carried out studies on this topic in 2002, however, there’s no further discussion on the relationship between contaminated land and the property. See Daniel H Cole, Pollution and Property: Comparing Ownership Institutions for Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
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Zhao, X. (2013). Introduction. In: Developing an Appropriate Contaminated Land Regime in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31615-9_1
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