Stalley, Phillip. 2010. Foreign Firms, Investment, and linvironmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

摘要

China's re-emergence as a political and economic power on the world stage has been accompanied by growing concerns about the effects of its economic development on the natural environment. Scholarly books on China's environmental policies in the Maoist and early reform eras were able to cover a wide range of environmental problems and policy responses within a single volume. But as China's industrializing economy and civic institutions have grown more complex, so have the environmental challenges. In recent years, scholars and journalists have necessarily focused more narrowly on specific sectors or regions, with books appearing on such topics as water pollution, dam construction, and a nascent environmental movement in China. The best of these use their research carefully to say something about the broader trends of China's environment and its system of governance. Phillip Stalley's book is a strong addition to this field.