history | China Dialogue https://chinadialogue.net/en/tag/history/ China and the Environment Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:26:58 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://cdn.chinadialogue.net/content/uploads/2020/06/19102132/Colour.svg history | China Dialogue https://chinadialogue.net/en/tag/history/ 32 32 The Mogao caves: Preserving cultural heritage in a changing climate https://chinadialogue.net/en/climate/the-mogao-caves-preserving-cultural-heritage-in-a-changing-climate/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:26:48 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=113833 How can the lessons learned from protecting Buddhist art in the Gobi Desert help other cultural heritage sites in China?

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]]> Women’s rights in environmental law, from 1972 to today https://chinadialogue.net/en/climate/womens-rights-in-environmental-law-from-1972-to-today/ Tue, 28 Dec 2021 08:45:00 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=74387 Important progress has been made, but now is the time to place women’s rights at the heart of transnational environmental law

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]]> China’s first 50 years in global environmental governance https://chinadialogue.net/en/climate/chinas-first-50-years-in-global-environmental-governance/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:11:31 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=74415 An illustrated timeline of China’s role on the international environmental stage from 1971 to 2021

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]]> How the first global environment talks contained the shape of things to come https://chinadialogue.net/en/pollution/stockholm-1972-first-global-environment-conference-shape-of-things-to-come/ Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:01:40 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=74139 Political divisions between industrialised and developing countries that surfaced at the 1972 Stockholm Conference have hampered much subsequent environmental cooperation

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]]> 1972: The start of China’s environmental journey https://chinadialogue.net/en/nature/stockholm-1972-chinas-environmental-journey/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:48:17 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=73215 The Stockholm Conference was the first major UN event featuring the People’s Republic of China. It has shaped the country’s understanding of environmental issues ever since.

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]]> An illustrated history of industrial palm oil https://chinadialogue.net/en/food/illustrated-history-of-industrial-palm-oil/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:59:01 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=70181 From traders in 19th-century West Africa to today’s plantation owners in Southeast Asia, palm oil and colonialism are difficult to separate

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]]> ‘Chinese environmentalism needs to be tenacious’: Lo Sze Ping looks back on the last two decades https://chinadialogue.net/en/nature/lo-sze-ping-interview-chinese-environmentalism/ Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:53:54 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=68147 We spoke to Lo Sze Ping, who recently left his post as CEO of WWF China, about the changes he has seen in China’s environmentalism since 2000

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]]> Ancient geoglyph destroyed by Amazon farming https://chinadialogue.net/en/food/ancient-geoglyph-destroyed-by-amazon-farming/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:15:35 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=66958 Damage to the geoglyph on a farm in Brazil’s Acre state reveals the dangers agribusiness pose to Amazon heritage

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]]> Preventing epidemics in 20th-century China https://chinadialogue.net/en/food/preventing-epidemics-in-20th-century-china-2/ Mon, 18 May 2020 09:09:00 +0000 http://chinadialogue.net/?p=61601 Infectious diseases and efforts to defeat them have long centred on human–animal relations, writes Mary Augusta Brazelton, author of Mass Vaccination

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]]> What lessons does the US’ ‘Environmental Decade’ hold for China? https://chinadialogue.net/en/climate/9975-what-lessons-does-the-us-environmental-decade-hold-for-china/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000 A look back at why in the 1970s America began to legislate its way towards a healthier environment

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