The politics and ethics of going green in China: Air pollution control in benxi city and wetland preservation in the sanjiang plain

Forging Environmentalism

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 31-101

  Yu, Liu ^a   Wei, Pan ^b   Mingming, Shen ^b,c   Guojun, Song ^d   Bertrand, Vivian ^e   Child, Mary ^e   Shapiro, Judith ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c School of Government   (China)

^d RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^e Renmin University ^*

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