 | China''s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change Subjects: Water resources development -- Political aspects -- China; Environmentalism -- Political aspects -- China; Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- China; Environmental policy -- China; China -- Politics and government -- 1976–2002; China -- Polit; Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven and decentralized, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, opposition, and open protest. Andrew C. Mertha is Associate Professor of Chinese Politics at Cornell University. He is the author of The Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China, also from Cornell. |
