Climate and Society

Thu, Nov 30

How are Asian countries addressing environmental and climate challenges in cities?

Read This

  • Ren, Xuefei. 2020. Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020, Introduction, 1-14 (skim); Chapter 4, 56-90; Chapter 5, 91-117.

Recommended

  • Yanzhong HUANG, Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and Its Challenge to the Chinese State (Cambridge University Press, 2020), chapters 1 and 2
  • Gyeltshen, J. (2022). “Bhutan’s sustainable development initiatives and Gross National Happiness.” In P. Low (Ed.), Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives (pp. 85-94). Cambridge: Cambridge University.