Sujian Guo is professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for U.S.-ChinaPolicy Studies at San Francisco State University, with concurrent appointments as associate dean and distinguished professor at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University, China.Joel J. Kassiola is dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Professor of PoliticalScience at San Francisco State University.Jijiao Zhang is professor in the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Chinese Academy of SocialSciences and founder and chair of the Commission on Enterprise Anthropology, China.

There is a substantial amount of unique material in this book, and particularly outstanding are the detailed case studies of environmental or environment related social issues in China’s western regions, especially the issue of ecological migration which is approached from different perspectives in two chapters. The book is also valuable for its pioneering work in comparing these two development processes through the lens of environmental issues, which has been neglected by most previous studies, and draws readers’ attention to the environmental aspect of China’s westward development. . . .Overall, this book offers a fresh methodology for researching the environmental issues that have arisen in the process of China’s development from a comparative perspective, and attempts to draw lessons from the US in its westward development more than a century earlier. This book should be read by any serious student interested in China’s environmental politics and policy, comparative environment politics, and China studies broadly construed.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Ecological and Environmental Challenges in China's Western RegionsPart 2 Part 1: Lessons from the U.S. Experience for ChinaChapter 3 Chapter 1: American Agricultural Conservation as a National Policy: Lessons from the U. S. for China's Great West DevelopmentChapter 4 Chapter 2: Grassroots Environmental Management in the Western United States: Can it be a Model for Success for Western ChinaChapter 5 Chapter 3: Values Conflict in American Environmental Federalism, with Implications for ChinaChapter 6 Chapter 4: Urban Growth Control and Farmland Preservation in West ChinaChapter 7 Chapter 5: Archaeological Site Management as Environmental Policy in U.S. and China: Implications for Western Expansion in ChinaPart 8 Part 2: Chinese Environmental Policy and ExperienceChapter 9 Chapter 6: Environmental Consciousness Change: A Comparative Study of USA and PRC (1950-2008)Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Urban Environmental Protection Policies and their Effects in ChinaChapter 11 Chapter 8: Ecological and Environmental Migration in China: Policy and PracticeChapter 12 Chapter 9: "Cities Besieged by Garbage" and Counter-measures for Environmental Protection in Western Cities: A Case Study of Solid Waste Classification in KunmingChapter 13 Chapter 10: Ecological Migration Practices and the Placement of Migrants and its Impact on Poverty Alleviation and Development: A Case Study of the Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County Guangxi

Sujian Guo is professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Center for U.S.-ChinaPolicy Studies at San Francisco State University, with concurrent appointments as associate dean and distinguished professor at Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University, China.Joel J. Kassiola is dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Professor of PoliticalScience at San Francisco State University.Jijiao Zhang is professor in the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Chinese Academy of SocialSciences and founder and chair of the Commission on Enterprise Anthropology, China.

There is a substantial amount of unique material in this book, and particularly outstanding are the detailed case studies of environmental or environment related social issues in China’s western regions, especially the issue of ecological migration which is approached from different perspectives in two chapters. The book is also valuable for its pioneering work in comparing these two development processes through the lens of environmental issues, which has been neglected by most previous studies, and draws readers’ attention to the environmental aspect of China’s westward development. . . .Overall, this book offers a fresh methodology for researching the environmental issues that have arisen in the process of China’s development from a comparative perspective, and attempts to draw lessons from the US in its westward development more than a century earlier. This book should be read by any serious student interested in China’s environmental politics and policy, comparative environment politics, and China studies broadly construed.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Ecological and Environmental Challenges in China's Western RegionsPart 2 Part 1: Lessons from the U.S. Experience for ChinaChapter 3 Chapter 1: American Agricultural Conservation as a National Policy: Lessons from the U. S. for China's Great West DevelopmentChapter 4 Chapter 2: Grassroots Environmental Management in the Western United States: Can it be a Model for Success for Western ChinaChapter 5 Chapter 3: Values Conflict in American Environmental Federalism, with Implications for ChinaChapter 6 Chapter 4: Urban Growth Control and Farmland Preservation in West ChinaChapter 7 Chapter 5: Archaeological Site Management as Environmental Policy in U.S. and China: Implications for Western Expansion in ChinaPart 8 Part 2: Chinese Environmental Policy and ExperienceChapter 9 Chapter 6: Environmental Consciousness Change: A Comparative Study of USA and PRC (1950-2008)Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Urban Environmental Protection Policies and their Effects in ChinaChapter 11 Chapter 8: Ecological and Environmental Migration in China: Policy and PracticeChapter 12 Chapter 9: "Cities Besieged by Garbage" and Counter-measures for Environmental Protection in Western Cities: A Case Study of Solid Waste Classification in KunmingChapter 13 Chapter 10: Ecological Migration Practices and the Placement of Migrants and its Impact on Poverty Alleviation and Development: A Case Study of the Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County Guangxi