China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development
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Vaclav Smil
China's development is imperilled by environmental degradation and the reckless waste of natural resources.
Smil's second book on this subject examines the cost in terms of damage to the environment of the country's rapid industrialisation, concentrating mainly on the implications of the huge increase in energy required for the process and on the problem of food security.
The dismal prospect he sketches is one of continuing environmental deterioration in the first decade of this century, regardless of any action taken to prevent that happening, but Smil does suggest long-term actions which could prevent an even greater catastrophe in later years.
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China’s Sinopec has “golden opportunity” to expand oil assets in Angola
Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 Sept - Chinese state oil company Sinopec currently has a “golden opportunity” finally to expand its assets in Angola, getting closer to the positions held in the country by the large multinationals, said analyst Ana Cristina Alves.
After a long stalemate, the analyst said in the most recent edition of the China Monitor of the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University, this opportunity has emerged via the new tender for oil blocks, which is due to take place at the beginning of next year.
The Chinese company has pre-qualification for the long-awaited tender as an operator and Sonangol Sinopec International as a non-operator. [ more ] |
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