Environmental Policy and Air Pollution in China : Governance and Strategy (Edition 1)

This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China's sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in tand...

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Main Author: Xu, Yuan (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Routledge 2020
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