What is it about?
This is a review of an important contribution to the study of China's built environment, resource use, water, energy, and questions about power and pragmatism.
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Why is it important?
China has been one of the fastest growing nations in terms of economy and energy use in recent years. It's resource and energy challenges are also the world's resource and energy challenges. Everyone needs to better understand China's approach to dealing with these problems because their solutions affect the broader world.
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I consider any serious study of China's rivers, dams, resources and energy a must read. I am devoted to a continual review of environment-related research on China and Asia more broadly to work toward a greater recognition of the global environment as one interconnected system that we mutually impact and must therefore better understand. This particular work by Tilt is particularly important because it's subject matter--dams--touches on so many core issues at once. Furthermore it is readable and practical.
E. Elena Songster
Saint Mary's College of California
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This page is a summary of: Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power. By Bryan Tilt. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xv, 259 pp. ISBN: 9780231170109 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book)., The Journal of Asian Studies, November 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s002191181600139x.
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