Environmental Change and Food Security in China
With 22 percent of the world’s population but only 7 percent of its arable land, China’s food situation is a matter of global concern. Environmental Change and Food Security in China, is the first to introduce comprehensively the threats to China’s system
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Environmental Change and Food Security in China
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Environmental Change and Food Security in China
ADVANCES IN GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH VOLUME 35
Editor-in-Chief Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Advisory Board B. Allen-Diaz, Department ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. R.S. Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. W. Cramer, Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. H.F. Diaz, Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA. S. Erkman, Institute for communication and Analysis of Science and Technology–ICAST, Geneva, Switzerland. R. Garcia Herrera, Faculated de Fisicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. M. Lal, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. U. Luterbacher, The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. I. Noble, CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and Research School of Biological Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. L. Tessier, Institut Mediterranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie, Marseille, France. F. Toth, International Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy. M.M. Verstraete, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ec Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy.
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Jenifer Huang McBeath Jerry McBeath ●
Environmental Change and Food Security in China
Jenifer Huang McBeath University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK USA [email protected]
Jerry McBeath University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4020-9179-7 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-9180-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9180-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010924737 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To our ancestors and to our children, Bowen and Rowena
Acknowledgements
We began this study in spring 2004, when Jenifer Huang McBeath was a Science Fellow at the American Embassy in Beijing, and Jerry McBeath was Fulbright Professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, also in Beijing. We returned to China each year to collect research materials and conduct interviews, until the conclusion of research in mid-2009. For assistance in conducting research we are particularly grateful to Dean Dai Changzheng and Professor Wang Bo of the China University
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