China has experienced pressing energy shortages in recent years, and Beijing has intensified its efforts to secure China's energy supply through both increased domestic production and external expansion. In this paper, I first analyze China's global quest for energy by looking at the correlation between China's economic growth and its energy security concerns. I then examine the implications of China's "go-out" strategy through two sets of case studies. I argue that China's global search for energy is primarily driven by its rapid economic growth, out of insecurity rather than a master plan to dominate the world, and that China's energy security issues have multiple implications beyond simple economic concerns. Finally, I recommend a forward-looking engagement policy to be adapted by Ca...
...Even if only a quarter of China's population begins to consume as much energy as North American... Cities Initiative (SCI) Canada-Qingdao; Urban Rehabilitation and Conservation. * In 2003, Prime ...
... can adjust strategically to the rise of China and India as rising powers and as emerging donors ... micro-regions, rich and poor, rural and urban populations, and men and women. In south Asia in p...
... massive challenges as planet hits population milestone . 1"I regret to have made all those chi...In China and India, the two most populous nations, it's an ... of strict family planning rules that limit urban families to one child and rural families to two, h...
In the past two years or so, cities across China have announced plans to "transform" these "villages within cities." Because of the Olympics in August 2008, Beijing faces a particularly tight deadline. Officials have given few details of the number of people affected. A state-controlled newspaper in 2005 said 33,935 households in 231 villages would be moved out. But these are only the "permanent residents," i.e., the villages' original inhabitants. They are heavily outnumbered by rural migrants, most of whom work as traders or in the city's service and construction industries. Their numbers have soared as Beijing has boomed. City governments build low-cost housing for the poor, but only for registered city residents, and often it is available only at much higher prices than rooms in the...
... to "renovate" (i.e., usually, flatten) 171 urban villages by the end of this year. Between 2005, wh... 2002 found 332 villages with a total population of more than 800,000 migrants in the eight urban d...
It is common for parents/families in traditional settings, whether in Africa or China, to pair their children/members in marriage often without their consent. This specific mate selection practice, arrangement, is used to designate marriages in these settings: the so-called arranged marriages. Observations about this mate selection practice are then posited as conclusive evidence of change in these marriages. This paper attempts an exploratory clarification of marriages in traditional Africa in two ways. First, it uses the marriage system of the Okrikans to reveal that arranged and non-arranged marriages coexist, each administered by and organized around distinct institutions, with differing consequences for family membership, inheritance and other important issues. Second, it breaks do...
..., however, may not be true of marriages in urban settings even in Africa and of marriages involving... local government areas with a total population of 203,35 1 (National Population Commission 1991)....
This paper provides an overview of environmental policies and their effectiveness in China. Analysis is made with respect to the performance during the 10th five-year plan (2001-2005) and the new environmental targets for the 11th five-year plan (2006-2010). With the establishment of a comprehensive system of policies for environmental protection, China has succeeded in reducing the rate of environmental deterioration as compared to the growth of the economy. However, China failed to meet the environmental targets set in its 10th five-year plan and the targets set in the 11th five-year plan appear overly ambitious. The challenges China faces in the future are unprecedented in terms of scale and intensity. In addition, China is aware of global environmental issues and positive in joining...
...Large-scale urbanization and industrialization in such a highly concentrate... monitoring reports, 2/3 of the urban population are exposed to air quality levels that did not mee...
... a 40 year old woman from Hebei Province in China . Before the Refugee Protection Division of the Im... to change her Hukou from a rural to an urban Hukou. The panel assigned little weight to this ex...The evidence indicates that population movement was strictly controlled prior to 1998 and...
... Policy show that nearly 7.5% of the population in 2001 was born outside the United Kingdom, compa... was born abroad and more than half of the urban population was from outside Canada. . United State... prayers, including the Scottish Churches China Group in 2003, and the African Network of Religiou...
... Development (MSc) * Energy Mgmt and * Urban Studies Petroleum Land Mgmt (BA) (BComm) * Environ... students to take two senior courses in China. Geography offers block field courses. Environment...population. The University of New Environmental There are ple...
Behind the joint ownership of financial resources is the couple's adherence to the values of family collectivism and relational harmony, and this is so even when the spouses may have kept some "other incomes" in their own pockets. "Whatever the choice [spending] we make, we do it for the best interest of the family" and "We are the family!" are among the common responses from the collectivized couples. A middle-aged businessman said of his wife with gratitude: "My wife is very family orientated. A few years ago, she received a scholarship for graduate studies from a university in the U.S. Worried that I would not be able to take care of myself and our , daughter, she gave up the opportunity.... She has sacrificed so much for our family." His wife (a government official), in a separate i...
... small sample comparable to the larger population, we followed the method of "maximizing range" sugg...
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