China’s Environmental Challenges

(Polity Books) In this book, the author examines China’s effort to achieve sustainable development given the rural poverty and soaring middle class consumption. She explores a number of questions, including Are China's environmental problems so severe that they may shake the government's stability, legitimacy and control? And to what extent are China’s environmental problems due to patterns of Western consumption? Shapiro is a professor in the School of International Service at American University, in Washington D.C.