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Environment and Health Research in China: The State of the Field*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2013

Jennifer Holdaway
Jennifer Holdaway*
Affiliation:
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD). Email: holdaway@ssrc.org.
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Abstract

In the context of this symposium, this article reviews social science research in the emerging field of environment and health in China, with a particular focus on the impacts of pollution. It begins with a discussion of the particular nature of China's environment-related health problems, distinguishing the different challenges presented by diseases of poverty, affluence and transition. It then reviews recent developments in policy and civil society with regard to environment and health, and the extent to which work in the social sciences has advanced our knowledge of these and of state–society interactions. The article concludes with some reflections on the need for and challenges of interdisciplinary and international collaboration in this area.

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environmenthealthregional developmentgovernanceinterdisciplinary researchChina

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Special Section on Dying for Development
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The China Quarterly , Volume 214 , June 2013 , pp. 255 - 282
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2013 

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This work is supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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