Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know

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By Daniel K. Gardner ’72

Published Dec. 5, 2019

Since the late 1970s, China’s manufacturing capability and car market have increased dramatically and technologically advanced cities have replaced fertile fields. Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press) by Daniel K. Gardner ’72 analyzes the contributing factors that led to China’s extreme pollution and the public and governmental response to the environmental crisis.

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