Introduction: China''s Ecological Transformation: A Relational Approach - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li A Brief Geographic Sketch of China at the Dawn of the Third Millennium: Mountains, Rivers, Basins, Plains, and Plateaus - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li Part I. Past as Prelude-The Long Journey Toward Understanding China''s Long-term Ecological Transformation Part I Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li Chapter 1. How Humans Have Transformed China''s Biosphere - Brian Lander Chapter 2. Forests in Imperial China - Ian M. Miller Chapter 3. Deep Waters: Environmental Histories of China''s Rivers and Hydrological Resources - Ruth Mostern Chapter 4. Farming with the Elements: Agronomy and Ecological Wisdom in Early China - Joerg Henning Huesemann Chapter 5. Nature Through the Cartographer''s Eye: Depictions of Natural Elements in Ancient Chinese Maps - Han Zhaoqing Chapter 6: Fengshui, Ecology, and the Fate of China''s Subtropical Broadleaf Evergreen Forest Biome - Chris Coggins Chapter 7.
Shifting Isohyet, Human Migrations and Inter-Asian Geographies of China: Climate Refugees and Empire Builders in the 1200s - Dan Smyer Yue Chapter 8. Development, Environment, and Ecosystem Resilience: Water and Food in the People''s Republic of China - Stevan Harrell Part II. Biodiversity and Wild Landscapes-Conservation and the Social Construction of Nature in Contemporary China Part II Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li Chapter 9. Animal Science, Rights, and Conservation in Republican China, 1911-1949 - David Pietz Chapter 10. Wildlife in the Crossfire: The Legal and Ethical Challenges of Conservation in China - Deborah Cao Chapter 11. Global China and the Wildlife Trade: Impacts on Biodiversity, Marine Ecosystems, and Racialized Public Health Risks - Jesse Rodenbiker Chapter 12: The Resilience and Complexity of Tibetan Pastoralism: Language, Livestock, and Ritual - Tracy Burnett Chapter 13: Bureaucracy, Vulnerability, and Environmental Research - Timothy McLellan Chapter 14. One Size Does Not Fit All: Variable Community Interactions With Protected Areas in China, and Implications for Conservation Management - Heidi Ma, Sarah Papworth, Sam Turvey CHAPTER 15: Evidence-based conservation management in China: understanding decision-making for a Critically Endangered Chinese cetacean - Lisa Mogensen, Zhigang Mei, Sam Turvey Part III. Pressing Environmental Concerns in Urbanizing China Introduction Part III Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li Chapter 16.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in China''s Environmental Governance - Genia Kostka, Kyoung Shin Chapter 17. Digital Mediation of Environmental Governance Through Gamification of Sustainability Priorities: the Case of Ant Forest in China - Ying Xu, Federico Caprotti Chapter 18. China''s Changing Ecocinema - Haomin Gong Chapter 19. Teaching Digital Landscapes: Incorporating Virtual Reality to Chinese Environmental Learning - Cheng Li Chapter 20. Place-Based Earth and Environmental Education: Lessons from Southern China and the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands - Lobsang Sonam, Tsering Drolma, Chris Coggins, Nitas Syed Chapter 21. Air Pollution Concerns: Spatial and temporal variability and drivers - Liu Wenling, Zhu Yulin, Jiang Shujing, Jia Yunhao Chapter 22. Co-Controlling Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases: Greening Transportation in China - Hu Tao, Song Peng Part IV. Global China, the Biosphere, and Planetary Sustainability Part IV Introduction - Chris Coggins and Yifiei Li Chapter 23.
Reactive Authoritarianism: Understanding the Caprices of Chinese Environmental Governance - Yifei Li, Judith Shapiro Chapter 24: Sino-US Hyper-competition in the climate crisis era: The case of Critical Minerals - Sophia Kalantzakos Chapter 25. Security, Climate Change, and the Politics of Vulnerability in China - Eyck Freymann, Raymond H. Cai Chapter 26. China''s Climate Change Governance: Authoritarianism or Alternative to Save the World? - Chunhong Sheng, Hanyue Hua Chapter 27. Chinese ESG and Green Finance in the Belt and Road Initiative - Ziwei Fan, Chun Kai Leung, David A. Palmer Chapter 28. Eating the Quick and the Dead: On Feeding China''s Cities - Caroline Merrifield Chapter 29. Socioecological Engineering in the Chinese Century - Annah Lake Zhu.