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China Environment Series 9 (2007)
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Authors in this issue of the China Environment Series examine many of China's environmental health challenges, with emphasis throughout on potential steps to address these problems through regulation, better research, greater NGO involvement, and international assistance. This issue also includes a special report from the USAID-supported China Environmental Health Project. Forward: Jennifer L. Turner, Editor In terms of environmental news stories coming out of China, this year of the fire pig would not appear to be a particularly lucky one. This year, China most likely surpassed the United States as the leading emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world (although the latter remains a bigger emitter per capita); the central government admitted that China had not met the previous year’s laudable energy efficiency goals; Lake Taihu (the country’s third largest lake) turned a florescent green with a toxic algae; an environmentalist who had for years had been advocating Lake Tai’s protection was arrested and subsequently sentenced to three years in prison; the International Olympic Committee announced that while Beijing’s air is cleaner than seven years ago it may not be good enough for endurance sports at next year’s Olympic Games; and huge riverbank landslides occurred near the Three Gorges Dam, prompting the Chinese leadership to announce the need to relocate an additional 3 million people. What is striking about these stories is that most were reported in the Chinese as well as the western news media, which I see as a positive sign. Memories of the cover-ups surrounding the 2005 Songhua River benzene spill and fears of social instability from expanding protests over pollution problems nationwide have led to a somewhat more transparent discussion of environmental problems in China The China Environment Series (CES) has never been a headline-chasing journal, rather one that attempts to delve into China’s environmental and energy challenges more deeply and highlight promising trends and opportunities for collaboration with China on these issues. In this spirit, this CES delves into the issue of environmental health, which parallels a major new China Environment Forum (CEF) initiative— the USAID-supported China Environmental Health Project (CEHP), which began in October 2006. Our primary task under CEHP is helping Western Kentucky University scientists Chris Groves and Wei-Ping Pan do community outreach and disseminate information regarding their environmental health work on coal in Anhui Province and on karst water issues in China’s southwest. Under CEHP the CEF team has been producing numerous research briefs on environmental health issues in China that are posted on our website. Moreover, this year most of our monthly CEF meetings have focused on environmental health and/or “green” public participation in China. Please see the special report in this issue for more information on CEHP activities. Another new CEF initiative—Bridge to Safety: U.S.-China Partnerships on Food Safety—began in the fall of 2007, thanks to a grant from Waters Corporation. Under this initiative we are putting on a series of meetings and creating a special report focused on China’s food safety challenges, which are not simply due to poor food processor monitoring, but also linked to the country’s growing pollution problems. This year also marked the beginning of what CEF hopes is an ongoing partnership with Circle of Blue (www.circleofblue.org) to design and produce multimedia web-based stories on freshwater challenges in China. This issue’s Feature Box, “Driving Through the Desert of Sand,” introduces the first of these collaborative stories. For those of you who are wont to skip around journals, I would strongly recommend you to at least first read the opening feature article by Xiaoqing Lu and Bates Gill, for it anchors CES 9 by providing an important overview of current policymaking, NGO activities, and scientific research around the issue of environmental health in China. They see incredible challenges for China to address environmental health problems, but provide some direction on important next steps. Kaleb Brown and Stephanie Renzi take their environmental health analysis down to the provincial level, pondering whether Guangdong has the potential to be a vanguard for addressing pollution and related human health threats in China. My assistant Linden Ellis and I wanted to refocus some of the current attention on China’s food safety problems away from exports to what we believe are bigger environmental and health concerns within China stemming from unsustainable and unsafe practices in the country’s animal husbandry and aquaculture sectors, areas ripe for international cooperation to make China’s food production more sustainable and safe. ... Visit China Environment Series 9 (2007) Web Page China Responds to Environmental Health Challenges Surf and Turf: Threats from Aquaculture and Animal Husbandry Guangdong: Protecting Ecological and Human Health? Clean Water, Clean Coal: Reports From the China Environmental Health Project Plus: Notes From the Field, Spotlight on NGOs http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/ces9.pdf |
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