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China’s Economic Growth

The Impact on Regions, Migration and the Environment

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  • © 2000

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  1. Terry Cannon

    1. University of Greenwich, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction — The Economic Reforms, Demographic Processes and Environmental Problems

    1. Introduction — The Economic Reforms, Demographic Processes and Environmental Problems

      • Terry Cannon
      Pages 1-29

  3. Demographic Processes and the Economic Reforms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
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    2. Pressures of Development on China’s Cities and Regions

      • Ian G. Cook
      Pages 33-55

    3. Patterns of Migration under the Reforms

      • Mahmoud Messkoub, Delia Davin
      Pages 56-90

    4. The Floating Population in China’s Cities: A New Ethnic Underclass?

      • Christopher J. Smith
      Pages 91-114

    5. Family Planning and Fertility Among Temporary Migrants

      • Caroline Hoy
      Pages 115-139

  4. Economic Growth and Environmental Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Wuhan: Policies for the Management and Improvement of a Polluted City

      • John G. Taylor, Xie Qingshu
      Pages 143-160

    3. Recent Developments and Prospects for the Sanxia (Three Gorges) Dam

      • Richard Louis Edmonds
      Pages 161-183

    4. World Bank Policies, Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction

      • Lin Gan
      Pages 184-209

    5. Urban Transport in China: Whither the Bicycle?

      • Andrew Spencer
      Pages 210-225

    6. Is Ecological Agriculture Sustainable in China?

      • Richard Sanders
      Pages 226-247

  5. Erosion Problems and Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
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    2. Assessing and Managing the Soil Erosion Problem in Southern China

      • David Higgitt
      Pages 251-278

    3. Soil Erosion and Conservation on Subtropical Arable in Yunnan Province, South-west China

      • Mike Fullen, David J. Mitchell, Andrew P. Barton, Trevor J. Hocking, Liu Liguang, Wu Bo Zhi et al.
      Pages 279-292

    4. Erosion in Deep Gorges: The Leaping Tiger Gorge on the Upper Yangtze

      • David Watts, Zhou Yue
      Pages 293-308

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 309-315
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Economic reforms in China began in 1979 and initiated some of the most fundamental changes ever to occur in any country. While allowing some of the most astonishing economic growth the world has seen, they have also induced some of the most profound social and environmental shifts.

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  • University of Greenwich, UK

    Terry Cannon

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TERRY CANNON is Reader in Third World Development Studies at the University of Greenwich. He is author of many papers and chapters on China, in particular the impact of the economic reforms on various sectors. He co-edited The Geography of Contemporary China: the Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade (1990), and co-wrote At Risk: Natural Hazards, Peoples' Vulnerability and Disasters (1994).

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