Concise Encyclopedia of Green Technology in China

Nancy Y. Liu-Sullivan; Lawrence R. Sullivan

doi:10.5771/9781538176870

Summary

Following decades of ignoring the environment, China has become a global leader in air and water purification, solid waste management, and wastewater treatment with dramatic growth especially in solar and wind power while major outstanding problems include continued reliance on coal and other fossil fuels especially in power plants and heavy industry.

Concise Encyclopedia of Green Technology in China provides a basic understanding of green technology in the environmental and economic policies of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Green technology is defined as any technology used to mitigate or reverse the deleterious effects of human activity on the natural environment. Green technology involves the application of multiple environmental sciences including green chemistry, material sciences, and hydrology along with utilization of renewable energy sources such as geothermal, solar, tidal and wave, and wind power. Innovative technologies developed in China include mass production of electric vehicles (EVs), development of photovoltaics along with electronic devices for remote sensing, and monitoring, and utilization of enhanced computer power for the analysis of big data.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-7686-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-7687-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 236
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Reader’s Note No access
4. Acronyms and Abbreviations No access
5. Chronology No access
6. Introduction No access
Entries No access Pages 1 - 198
Glossary No access Pages 199 - 200
Appendix A No access Pages 201 - 204
Appendix B No access Pages 205 - 208
Appendix C No access Pages 209 - 212
Appendix D No access Pages 213 - 214
Bibliography No access Pages 215 - 230
INDEX No access Pages 231 - 234
About the Authors No access Pages 235 - 236