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100 1 $aMcBeath, Jennifer H.
245 10 $aEnvironmental change and food security in China /$cJenifer Huang McBeath, Jerry McBeath.
260 $aDordrecht ;$aLondon :$bSpringer,$cc2010.
300 $axvii, 303 p. :$b1 map ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aAdvances in global change research ;$vv. 35
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCommunist role and the food security situation -- Immediate environmental stressors on food security -- Near-term environment stressors: climate change -- Plant diseases pests and food security -- Invasive species and food security -- Biotechnological responses to food security needs -- The legal and institutional framework to address food security needs -- Issues in implementing food security in China.
520 $a"With 22 percent of the world's population but only 7 percent of its arable land, China's food situation is a matter of global concern. Environmental Change and Food Security in China, is the first to introduce comprehensively the threats to China's system of food production, distribution, and consumption. It analyzes broad challenges of population growth, urbanization, and extraordinarily rapid economic development. Then it focuses on degradation of China's land, water and air, water sufficiency, and evidence of climate change effects as they adversely affect the food system. The study investigates plant diseases and pests which take a large toll on agricultural production and also considers alien invasive species.
520 $aNormal bureaucratic routines of agricultural, land, water, climatological, and environmental agencies are inadequate to counter these challenges, and the regime has launched large projects (e.g., the South-North Water Diversion Project) and conducted national campaigns (e.g., re- and afforestation programs) which are unprecedented in their scope. Also, China has invested more heavily in agricultural biotechnology research than any other developing country. These responses have insured self-sufficiency in food staples to the present.
520 $aThe volume evaluates several future problems and issues in China's approach to food security. Despite attempts to tighten coordination of policy and improve enforcement, as seen in efforts to resolve the tainted products crisis of 2007, the increased autonomy of local governments often frustrates green and clean ambitions of the state. Although the regime has tolerated environmental and other NGOs, allowed the media greater latitude to report bad news, and permitted protests that do not challenge the communist party's authority, still civil society is weak. While economic development has lifted more than 200 million from poverty, rural/urban inequality increases, pushing the poor into China's cities, and access to food remains a problem for many."--pub. desc.
650 0 $aFood supply$zChina.
650 0 $aAgricultural innovations$zChina.
650 0 $aFood supply$xGovernment policy$zChina.
650 0 $aFood crops$xEffect of global warming on$zChina.
650 0 $aFood crops$xEffect of pollution on$zChina.
650 0 $aLife sciences
650 0 $aFood science
650 0 $aAgriculture
650 0 $aPlant diseases
650 0 $aClimatic changes
650 0 $aEnvironmental law
650 0 $aPolitical science
650 14 $aLife Sciences
650 24 $aAgriculture
650 24 $aPolitical Science
650 24 $aPlant Pathology
650 24 $aEnvironmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
650 24 $aFood Science
650 24 $aClimate Change
700 1 $aMcBeath, Jerry.
700 1 $aMcBeath, Gerald A.
830 0 $aAdvances in global change research ;$vv. 35.
988 $a20110314
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