Chinas Global Quest for Resources
The worlds key resources of energy, food and water, which are closely connected and interdependent on each other, are coming under increasing pressure, as a result of increasing population, development and climate change. In the case of China, following its recent economic surge, energy, food and water are already nearing the point of shortage. This book considers how China is working to avoid shortages of energy, food and water, and the effect this is having internationally. Subjects covered include domestic policy debates on Chinas resource strategies, challenges for managing transboundary waters related to China, responses from various regions and countries to Chinas Go Out strategy, and Chinas increasing energy links with Russia and declining agricultural trade with the United States. The book concludes by discussing in comparative perspective Chinas outward resource acquisition activities and the consequent policy implications.
Fengshi Wu is an Associate Professor in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Hongzhou Zhang is a Research Fellow in the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
China Policy Series
Series Editor: Zheng Yongnian, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
34. E-Government in China
Technology, power and local government reform
Jesper Schlger
35. Social Protest in Contemporary China, 2003-2010
Transitional pains and regime legitimacy
Yanqi Tong and Shaohua Lei
36. Chinas Evolving Industrial Policies and Economic Restructuring
Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Sarah Y. Tong
37. China Entering the Xi Jinping Era
Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Lance L. P. Gore
38. Chinas Assertive Nuclear Posture
State security in an anarchic international order
Baohui Zhang
39. Chinese Higher Education Reform and Social Justice
Edited by Bin Wu and W. John Morgan
40. International Engagement in Chinas Human Rights
Edited by Dingding Chen and Titus Chen
41. Chinas Transition from Communism New Perspectives
Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne
42. ChinaTaiwan Rapprochement
The political economy of cross-straits relations
Min-Hua Chiang
43. Ecological Risks and Disasters New Experiences in China and Europe
Laurence Roulleau-Berger and Li Peilin
44. China's Governance Model
Flexibility and durability of pragmatic authoritarianism
Hongyi Lai
45. Chinas Great Urbanization
Edited by Yongnian Zheng, Litao Zhao, and Sarah Y. Tong
46. Chinas Global Quest for Resources
Energy, food and water
Edited by Fengshi Wu and Hongzhou Zhang
47. Chinas New Public Health Insurance
Challenges to health reforms and the new rural co-operative medical system
Armin Mller
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Names: Wu, Fengshi, editor. | Zhang, Hongzhou, editor.
Title: China's global quest for resources : energy, food and water / edited by Fengshi Wu and Hongzhou Zhang.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Series: China policy series ; 46 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016020633| ISBN 9781138943278 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315672564 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Natural resourcesGovernment policyChina. | ChinaForeign economic relations. | Energy securityGovernment policy China. | Food securityGovernment policyChina. | Water security Government policyChina.
Classification: LCC HC427.5 .C453 2017 | DDC 333.70951dc23
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ISBN: 978-1-138-94327-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-67256-4 (ebk)
The bulk of the chapters published in this volume are based on the draft papers presented at the workshop China and Non-traditional Security: Global Quest for Resources and Its International Implication, held at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, 31 October 2015. The workshop was funded by the China Programme, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, RSIS, NTU. Acknowledgement should first be given to all the paper presenters and discussants at the workshop for their intellectual contribution: Ana Cristina Alves, Alessandro Arduino, Gang Cheng, Guoqiang Cheng, Ralf Emmers, Yong Jiang, Zhifei Li, Oybek Makhmudov, Paul Teng, Lynn Thiesmeyer, Sergei Vinogradov, John Wong, Patricia Wouters, Ji You, Hongyuan Yu and Daojiong Zha (surnames in alphabetical order). The project is fortunate to have Professor Patricia Wouters on board. Her research on Chinas participation in global water governance (together with her team at Xiamen University) has been helpful to the chapters related to water resources included in the book. All colleagues of the China Programme including Mingjiang Li (China Programme Coordinator), Irene Chan, James Char, Kheng Swe Lim and Tiang Boon Hoo, and RSIS staff Dale Yang and Scott Lai provided necessary support at different times of the project, without whom neither the workshop nor the book would have come to fruit. Last but not least, the book editors would like to acknowledge Chan Boh Yees editing support.
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Professor, Institute of International Relations, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her research focuses on rising powers in international relations and development, especially Brazil and China.
