The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society

Bryan Tilt

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Paper, 216 pages, 16 illus; 6 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-15001-9
$29.50 / £20.50

December, 2009
Cloth, 216 pages, 16 illus; 6 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-15000-2
$89.50 / £62.00

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

1. Environmental Values, Civil Society, and Sustainability in Post-Reform China

2. The Development Imperative

3. Saying Farewell to Communal Capital

4. The Environmental Costs of Progress

5. Pollution, Perceptions, and Environmental Values

6. Civil Society and the Politics of Pollution Enforcement

7. Struggling for Sustainability

8. Conclusion: On Contradictions

Appendix: List of Chinese Characters

Works Cited

Related Subjects

• East Asian Studies

About the Author

Bryan Tilt is assistant professor of anthropology at Oregon State University. His research focuses on economic development and environmental protection in China, and he has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.

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