Instruction:

Take a look at Dimitra Kaika and Efthimios Zervas’s review of The Environmental Kuznets Curve and argue either for or against the idea that China will experience an EKC, i.e. that its environment will begin to improve. If you argue in favor of the idea, state your reasons why and also state when you think the improvement will start to happen, and why. If you argue against the idea, state your reasons why you think improvement will not come soon. In either case, make sure you look separately at separate environmental issues, including pollution, GHG emissions, resource degradation, and biodiversity. Both Tilt’s and Hathaway’s books ought to help you with this assignment, along with other readings.

The Environmental Kuznets Curve: http://www.sciencedirect.com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/science/article/pii/S0301421513007970

Reading:
http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/MotherJones.pdf
http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/Robbins%20and%20Harrell.pdf
http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/NYT%20Soil%202013.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/doi/10.1111/obr.12124/epdf
http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/9/11893