Overview
- Covers the issue of ecological sustainability in China, the world's fastest growing economy
- Includes updated and cutting-edge material
- Gives an interdisciplinary perspective on various issues related to sustainability, appealing to a wide readership
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Conceptual and Technical Issues
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Challenges Towards Ecological Sustainability in the Great Pearl River Delta
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Challenges Towards Ecological Sustainability in Other Areas of China
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About this book
This book will appeal to a wide readership including researchers, upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, and professionals in the fields of sustainability science, geography, ecology, and environmental science and policy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Shijun Jiang is a Full Professor of Paleoecology at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He followed higher education in China and the USA. He uses fossil community and geochemical means to study the biotic responses to environmental change and the dynamic processes of aquatic ecosystems over a range of timescales. His research has gained competitive funding from US Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Chinese National Science Foundation, Chinese National Key Basic Research Program, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation. Jiang has authored or co-authored more than 40 journal articles and has been a reviewer for more than 10 high profile international journals. He currently serves in the Fossil Algae Committee of Paleontological Society of China, the Freshwater Ecology Committee of the Ecological Society of Guangdong Province, the editorial boards of Marine Micropaleontology and Advances in Oceanography & Marine Biology, and the Urban Environmental and Resources Protection Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenges Towards Ecological Sustainability in China
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Editors: Xiaojun Yang, Shijun Jiang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03484-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03483-2Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03484-9Published: 15 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 340
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Geography, Ecology, Hydrology/Water Resources, Sustainable Development, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry