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Introduction

1.   Xuemin Liu et al., “Green Development and Resource Support” in China Green Development Index Report 2011, edited by Xiaoxi Li and Jiancheng Pan (Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2012), 205.

2.   Ibid.

3.   Gurcharan Das, India Grows At Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2012), 3.

Chapter 1

1.   Donella H. Meadows et al., The Limits to Growth (New York, NY: Universe Books, 1972), 23.

2.   Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at Convocation Ceremonies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,” September 20, 1983, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=40486.

3.   Graham Turner, “Is Global Collapse Imminent?” MSSI Research Paper No. 4, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, August 4, 2014, http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf.

4.   United Nations, Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, 1987, http://www.un-documents.net/our-common-future.pdf.

5.   Mathis Wackernagel, Laurel Hanscom, and David Lin, “Making the Sustainable Development Goals Consistent with Sustainability,” Frontiers in Energy Research, July 11, 2017, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2017.00018/full.

6.   Greenpeace, Who’s Holding Us Back? How Carbon-Intensive Industry Is Preventing Effective Climate Legislation, November 2011, http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2011/391%20-%20WhosHoldingUsBack.pdf.

7.   Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (New Delhi, India: Aleph Book Company, 2016).

8.   Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 2011).

9.   Claude Alvares, “Resisting the West’s Intellectual Discourse,” in Dominance of the West over the Rest (Penang, Malaysia: Just World Trust, 1995), 12–13.

10. Joe Studwell, How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region (New York, NY: Grove Press, 2013).

11. Kalim Siddiqui, “The Political Economy of Development in Singapore,” Research in Applied Economics 2, no. 2 (2010), http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/rae/article/view/524/367.

12. Studwell, How Asia Works.

13. Trucost, Natural Capital at Risk: The Top 100 Externalities of Business, April 2013, http://naturalcapitalcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Trucost-Nat-Cap-at-Risk-Final-Report-web.pdf.

Chapter 2

1.   Tiffany Hsu, “Alibaba’s Singles Day Sales Hit New Record of $25.3 Billion,” New York Times, November 10, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/business/alibaba-singles-day.html?_r=0.

2.   “Adobe Data Shows Cyber Monday Is Largest Online Sales Day in History with $6.59 Billion,” Adobe, November 27, 2017, http://news.adobe.com/press-release/experience-cloud/adobe-data-shows-cyber-monday-largest-online-sales-day-history-659.

3.   Kevin J. Delaney, “Bill Gates and Investors Worth $170 Billion Are Launching a Fund to Fight Climate Change through Energy Innovation,” Quartz, December 11, 2016, https://qz.com/859860/bill-gates-is-leading-a-new-1-billion-fund-focused-on-combatting-climate-change-through-innovation/.

4.   Adnan Al-Daini, “The March of Renewable Energy Is Unstoppable Even by President Trump,” HuffPost, May 4, 2017, http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/adnan-aldaini/renewable-energy_b_15799310.html.

5.   Coral Davenport, “Clean Energy ‘Moving Forward’ Despite Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Experts Say,” New York Times, December 8, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/politics/trump-climate-epa-coal-jobs.html.

6.   Pilita Clark, “The Big Green Bang: How Renewable Energy Became Unstoppable,” Financial Times, May 18, 2017, https://www.ft.com/content/44ed7e90-3960-11e7-ac89-b01cc67cfeec.

7.   Barack Obama, “The Irreversible Momentum of Clean Energy,” Science 355, no. 6321, January 13, 2017, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6321/126.

8.   “Government of the United Kingdom,” The Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change, October 30, 2006, 1, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100407172811/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/stern_review_report.htm.

9.   Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby, “The Big Idea: Leadership in the Age of Transparency,” Harvard Business Review, April 2010, https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-big-idea-leadership-in-the-age-of-transparency.

10. Michael Schrage, “Embracing Externalities Is the Road to Hell,” Harvard Business Review, April 21, 2010, https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-road-to-hell.html.

11. Haruka Yanagisawa, ed., Community, Commons and Natural Resource Management in Asia (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2015): Wooyoun Lee, “Deforestation and Agricultural Productivity in Choson Korea in the 18th and 19th Century,” 25–60; Shinichi Shigetomi, “Communal Land Formation and Local Society in Rural Thailand,” 61–81; Minoti Chakravarty-Kaul, “Village Communities and ‘Publicness’ in Northern India: Self-Governance of Common Property Resources and the Environment, 1803–2008,” 82–112; Yutaka Suga, “Historical Changes in Communal Fisheries in Japan,” 113–135.

12. WWF Nature Greater Mekong, Ecosystems in the Greater Mekong: Past Trends, Current Status, Possible Futures, May 2013, 7, http://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/greater_mekong_ecosystems_report_020513.pdf.

13. Jill Petzinger, “Performance Anxiety Is Putting Car-Crazy Germans off Buying Electric Vehicles,” Quartz, April 9, 2017, https://qz.com/953748/why-germans-dont-want-electric-cars/.

14. Centre for Public Impact, Renewable Energy in Germany: Energiewende, April 1, 2016, https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/renewable-energy-germany/.

Chapter 3

1.   “Xi Skips Old Growth Pledge as China Seeks Quality, Not Quantity,” Bloomberg, October 18, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/xi-skips-old-growth-pledge-as-china-seeks-quality-not-quantity.

2.   Jorgen Randers, 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012).

3.   Erik Bichard, “Fracking Boom Could Mean up to 12% More Carbon Emissions,” Conversation, October 16, 2014, https://theconversation.com/fracking-boom-could-mean-up-to-12-more-carbon-emissions-33050.

4.   Sarah Gibbens, “How Humans Are Causing Deadly Earthquakes,” National Geographic, October 2, 2017, https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/human-induced-earthquakes-fracking-mining-video-spd/.

5.   Gayathri Vaidyanathan, “Fracking Can Contaminate Drinking Water,” Scientific American, April 4, 2016, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fracking-can-contaminate-drinking-water/.

6.   Herman E. Daly. Steady-State Economics: Second Edition with New Essays. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012), 17.

7.   Ibid, 99.

8.   Herman E. Daly, “Sustainable Growth: An Impossibility Theorem,” in Herman E. Daly and Kenneth Townsend, eds., Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993), 269–270.

9.   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food Wastage Footprint and Climate Change, 2015, http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/nr/sustainability_pathways/docs/FWF_and_climate_change.pdf.

10. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1962), 112.

11. Max Chafkin and Jing Cao, “The Barbarians Are at Etsy’s Hand-Hewn, Responsibly Sourced Gates,” Bloomberg Businessweek, May 18, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-05-18/the-barbarians-are-at-etsy-s-hand-hewn-responsibly-sourced-gates.

12. David Dayen, “Unfriendly Skies,” American Prospect, November 3, 2017, http://prospect.org/article/unfriendly-skies.

13. Thomas Buckley and Matthew Campbell, “If Unilever Can’t Make Feel-Good Capitalism Work, Who Can?” Bloomberg Businessweek, August 31, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-31/if-unilever-can-t-make-feel-good-capitalism-work-who-can.

14. This play on words has been widely used, but this particular instance was drawn from Jacob Hecker and Paul Pierson, American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016), 4.

Chapter 4

1.   Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope, Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet (New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2017), 3.

2.   Jeffrey M. Jones, “U.S. Preference for Stricter Gun Law Highest Since 1993,” Gallup, March 14, 2018. http://news.gallup.com/poll/229562/preference-stricter-gun-laws-highest-1993.aspx.

3.   “Release: Gun Owners Overwhelmingly Support Background Checks, See NRA as Out of Touch, New Poll Finds,” The Center for American Progress, November 17, 2015, https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2015/11/17/125618/release-gun-owners-overwhelmingly-support-background-checks-see-nra-as-out-of-touch-new-poll-finds/.

4.   Nurith Aizenman, “A Little-Known Climate Fund Is Suddenly in the Spotlight,” goats and soda, National Public Radio, June 9, 2017, http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/06/09/532106567/a-little-known-climate-fund-is-suddenly-in-the-spotlight.

5.   Matt Rivers, “Xi’s Meeting with California Governor: A Message to Trump on Climate?” CNN, June 7, 2017, http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/07/asia/xi-brown-meeting-climate-china/index.html.

6.   We should be clear that supporting action against climate change is not the same as embracing sustainable development. For people like Governor Brown, sustainable development would only come through challenging the American Dream of consumption-led economic growth.

7.   International Coffee Organization, “Coffee Market Report,” February 2016, http://www.ico.org/documents/cy2015-16/cmr-0216-e.pdf.

8.   Richard Florida, “Is Life Better in America’s Red States?” New York Times, January 3, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/opinion/sunday/is-life-better-in-americas-red-states.html?_r=0.

9.   “Delhi Faces Water Crisis after Canal Sabotaged in Deadly Protests,” Guardian, February 22, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/22/india-caste-protesters-accept-offer-to-end-riots-and-water-crisis.

Chapter 5

1.   Jacob Hecker and Paul Pierson, American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016).

2.   Stephen Metcalf, “Neoliberalism: The Idea That Swallowed the World,” Guardian, August 18, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-the-idea-that-changed-the-world.

3.   “Rwanda’s Economy: An Unlikely Success Story,” National Public Radio, September 16, 2012, http://www.npr.org/2012/09/17/161222794/rwandan-economy-makes-unlikely-climb-in-rank.

4.   David Pilling and Lionel Barber, “Interview: Kagame Insists ‘Rwandans Understand the Greater Goal,’” Financial Times, August 27, 2017, https://www.ft.com/content/a2838936-88c6-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787.

5.   Hiroko Tabuchi and Eric Lipton, “How Rollbacks at Scott Pruitt’s E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil and Gas,” New York Times, May 20, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/business/energy-environment/devon-energy.html; Alec MacGillis, “Is Anyone Home at HUD?” ProPublica, August 22, 2017, https://www.propublica.org/article/is-anybody-home-at-hud-secretary-ben-carson.

6.   Lee Drutman and Steven Teles, “Why Congress Relies on Lobbyists Instead of Thinking for Itself,” Atlantic, March 10, 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/when-congress-cant-think-for-itself-it-turns-to-lobbyists/387295/.

7.   Simon Cartledge, A System Apart: Hong Kong’s Political Economy from 1997 until Now (Hawthorn, Australia: Penguin Books, 2017).

8.   Julia Lurie, “Here’s How Much Water Golf Courses, Ski Resorts, and Pools Are Using in California,” Mother Jones (August 2015), http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/08/golf-pools-water-drought-california/.

Chapter 6

1.   Joshua Kurlantzick, Democracy in Retreat: The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 128.

2.   Kishore Mahbubani, Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide between East and West (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2004).

Chapter 7

1.   Thomas Fuller, “Myanmar Backs Down, Suspending Dam Project,” New York Times, September 30, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/world/asia/myanmar-suspends-construction-of-controversial-dam.html.

2.   Michael Vatikiotis, Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia (London, UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017), 9.

3.   Brian Kennedy, “Most Americans Trust the Military and Scientists to Act in the Public’s Interest,” Pew Research Center, October 18, 2016, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/10/18/most-americans-trust-the-military-and-scientists-to-act-in-the-publics-interest/.

4.   Lianne Chia, “Bursting at the Seams: Singapore’s Cast-Off Clothing,” Channel NewsAsia, November 18, 2016. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/bursting-at-the-seams-singapore-s-cast-off-clothing-7682044

5.   Raymond Yeung, “Bad Fashion? Hongkongers Found to Spend HK$3.9 Billion on Clothes They Never or Seldom Wear,” The South China Morning Post, June 2, 2016. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/1979362/bad-fashion-hongkongers-found-spend-hk39-billion.

Chapter 9

1.   “Haze from Indonesian Fires May Have Killed More Than 100,000 People—Study,” Guardian September 19, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/haze-indonesia-forest-fires-killed-100000-people-harvard-study.

2.   Gecko Project, “The Palm Oil Fiefdom,” Mongabay, October 10, 2017, https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/the-palm-oil-fiefdom/.

3.   Novianti Setuningsih, “VP Kalla Slams Neighboring Countries over Haze Complaints,” Jakarta Globe, March 3, 2015, http://jakartaglobe.id/news/vp-kalla-slams-neighboring-countries-over-haze-complaints/.

4.   Fergus Jensen, “Less Haze This Year, Indonesia Promises Southeast Asia,” Reuters, August 29, 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-haze/less-haze-this-year-indonesia-promises-idUSKCN1141NZ.

5.   Hans Nicholas Jong, “First Real Test for Jokowi on Haze as Annual Fires Return to Indonesia,” Mongabay, August 8, 2017, https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/indonesian-president-jokowis-first-real-test-begins-as-annual-fires-return/.

6.   Joe Sandler Clark, “Forest Fires Rage across Indonesia as Dry Season Begins,” Unearthed, March 8, 2017, https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2017/08/03/indonesia-forest-fires-begin/.

7.   Michael Vatikiotis, Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia (London, UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017). 160.

8.   Sandra Hamid, “Indonesia’s Election Activists Fight to End Money Politics,” InAsia, Asia Foundation, January 22, 2014, https://asiafoundation.org/2014/01/22/indonesias-election-activists-fight-to-end-money-politics/.

Chapter 10

1.   Cahyandito Martha-Fani, “Air Pollution in Jakarta, Indonesia,” February 2001, http://www.stadtklima.de/cities/asia/id/djakarta/AirPollution.pdf.

2.   Karen Kaplan, “Policy Change in Jakarta Accidentally Teaches Drivers the Value of Carpool Lanes,” Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-carpool-lane-policy-20170706-story.html.

3.   Agnes Anya, “Jakarta Optimistic about Odd-Even License Plate Policy,” Jakarta Post, May 16, 2016, http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/05/16/jakarta-optimistic-about-odd-even-license-plate-policy.html.

4.   “Jakartans Spend 400 Hours a Year in Traffic, Says Survey,” Jakarta Post, February 9, 2015, http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/02/09/jakartans-spend-400-hours-a-year-traffic-says-survey.html.

5.   Michael Tatarski, “Vietnam’s Tale of Two Metros, One Built by the Japanese and the Other by the Chinese,” This Week in Asia, July 30, 2017, http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2104149/vietnams-tale-two-metros-one-built-japanese-and-other-chinese.

6.   Aparajita Rayi, “10 Million Bengalureans Lose 60 Crore Hours, Rs 3,700 Crore a Year to Road Congestion,” Times of India, January 6, 2017, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/10-million-bengalureans-lose-60-crore-hours-rs-3700-crore-a-year-to-road-congestion/articleshow/56368901.cms.

7.   World Health Organization, Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015, http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2015/en/.

8.   “20 Per Cent of Emergency Patient Deaths Blamed on Traffic Jam Delays,” Nation, January 17, 2017, http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30304268.

9.   World Health Organization, “WHO Releases Country Estimates on Air Pollution Exposure and Health Impact,” September 27, 2016, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2016/air-pollution-estimates/en/.

10. Anuradha Mascarenhas, “At 2.5 Million, India Tops List of Pollution-Linked Deaths: Study,” Indian Express, October 20, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/at-2-5-million-india-tops-list-of-pollution-linked-deaths-study-4898337/.

11. Krishnadas Rajagopal, “8 People Die in Delhi Every Day Due to Pollution: SC,” Hindu, February 7, 2017, http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/8-people-die-in-Delhi-every-day-due-to-pollution-SC/article17205973.ece.

12. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Urban and Rural Areas 2009, http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/urbanization/urbanization-wallchart2009.pdf.

13. Demographia World Urban Areas (14th annual ed.) (Bellevue, IL: Demographia, April 2018), 22.

14. Wendell Cox, “How Much of the World Is Covered in Cities?” New Geography, July 23, 2010, http://www.newgeography.com/content/001689-how-much-world-covered-cities.

15. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision (2014), http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/urbanization/the_worlds_cities_in_2016_data_booklet.pdf; Richard Dobbs et al., Urban World: Mapping the Economic Power of Cities (San Francisco, CA: McKinsey Global Institute, 2011), 9.

16. Mingxing Chen, Hua Zhang, Weidong Liu, and Wenzhong Zhang, “The Global Pattern of Urbanization and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Three Decades,” PLoS One 9, no. 8 (August 6, 2014), doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103799.

17. Demographia World Urban Areas (13th annual ed.) (Bellevue, IL: Demographia, April 2017), 17.

18. OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms, “Informal Settlements.” November 14, 2001, https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=1351.

19. “Rio Slum Landslide Leaves Hundreds Dead,” Guardian, April 8, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/08/rio-landslide-brazil.

20. Tolu Ogunlesi, “Inside Makoko: Danger and Ingenuity in the World’s Biggest Floating Slum,” Guardian, February 23, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/23/makoko-lagos-danger-ingenuity-floating-slum.

21. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Urbanization Trends in Asia and the Pacific, November 2013, http://www.unescapsdd.org/files/documents/SPPS-Factsheet-urbanization-v5.pdf.

22. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Economic and Social Survey 2013: Sustainable Development Challenges, http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/wess/wess_current/wess2013/WESS2013.pdf.

23. AsianCitiesAdapt, Responding to Urban Heat Island Effects, Policy Pointer No. 2, http://asian-cities-adapt.iclei-europe.org/fileadmin/files/Policy_Pointer/Policy_Pointer_UHI_Final.pdf; Manjula Ranagalage, Ronald C. Estoque, and Yuji Murayama, “An Urban Heat Island Study of the Colombo Metropolitan Area, Sri Lanka, Based on Landsat Data (1997–2017),” International Journal of Geo-Information 6:7, May 2, 2017, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6070189; Sigit D. Arifwidodoa and Takahiro Tanaka, “The Characteristics of Urban Heat Island in Bangkok, Thailand,” Procedia 195 (July 3, 2015), https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042815039634.

24. Francisco Estrada, “A Global Economic Assessment of City Policies to Reduce Climate Change Impacts,” Nature Climate Change, no. 7 (2017).

25. Chaitanya Mallapur, “61% Rise in Heat-Stroke Deaths over Decade across India,” Hindustan Times, May 28, 2015, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/61-rise-in-heat-stroke-deaths-over-decade-across-india/story-UPCxZAVYZXjJ1xyjdwtxQL.html.

26. Stephen Leahy, “Parts of Asia May Be Too Hot for People by 2100,” National Geographic, August 2, 2017, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/south-asia-heat-waves-temperature-rise-global-warming-climate-change/.

27. Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, “Urbanization and Migration in Developing Asia,” Diplomat, September 11, 2015, http://thediplomat.com/2015/09/urbanization-and-migration-in-developing-asia/.

28. Jeanne Batalova, Andriy Shymonyak, Guntur Sugiyarto, Firing Up Regional Brain Networks: The Promise of Brain Circulation in the ASEAN Economic Community, Asian Development Bank, 2017, https://www.adb.org/publications/regional-brain-networks-asean

Chapter 11

1.   Maggie Zhang, “New Environment Tax Will Hit Businesses in China Hard, Say Experts,” South China Morning Post, October 3, 2017, http://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/2113650/new-environment-tax-will-hit-businesses-china-hard-say.

2.   “China Sets Out Scaled-Back Vision for Biggest Carbon Market,” Bloomberg, December 19, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-19/china-unveils-plan-for-world-s-biggest-carbon-trading-market.

3.   Nectar Yan, “Will China’s Carbon Trading Scheme Work without an Emissions Cap?” South China Morning Post, January 3, 2018, http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2125896/big-black-hole-chinas-carbon-market-ambitions.

4.   Arthur Kroeber, China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016).

5.   Alister Doyle, “China Says One-Child Policy Helps Protect Climate,” Reuters, August 30, 2007, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-population-correction/corrected-china-says-one-child-policy-helps-protect-climate-idUSL3047203920070830; Wang Feng, Yong Cai, and Baochang Gu, “Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China’s One-Child Policy?” Population and Development Review, no. 38, Issue Supplement (2012), 115–129.

6.   Matthew E. Kahn and Siqi Zheng, Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016).

7.   Zhuang Pinghui, “China Could Prevent 3 Million Deaths a Year If Air Quality Standards Tightened, Study Suggests,” South China Morning Post, March 15, 2017, http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2078999/china-could-prevent-3-million-deaths-year-if-air-quality.

8.   “Four-Fifths of China’s Water from Wells ‘Unsafe Because of Pollution,’” Guardian, April 16, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/12/four-fifths-of-chinas-water-from-wells-unsafe-because-of-pollution.

9.   Nadya Ivanova, “Toxic Water: Across Much of China, Huge Harvests Irrigated with Industrial and Agricultural Runoff,” Circle of Blue, January 18, 2013, http://www.circleofblue.org/2013/world/toxic-water-across-much-of-china-huge-harvests-irrigated-with-industrial-and-agricultural-runoff/.

10. Kroeber, China’s Economy.

11. Dominique Patton, “More Than 40 Percent of China’s Arable Land Degraded: Xinhua,” Reuters, November 4, 2014, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-soil/more-than-40-percent-of-chinas-arable-land-degraded-xinhua-idUSKBN0IO0Y720141104.

12. “All Dried Up,” Economist, October 10, 2013, https://www.economist.com/news/china/21587813-northern-china-running-out-water-governments-remedies-are-potentially-disastrous-all.

13. Chris Luo, “New Study Shows Dramatic Fall in Number of Rivers in China,” South China Morning Post, March 27, 2013, http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1200961/new-study-shows-dramatic-fall-number-rivers-china.

14. Kroeber, China’s Economy.

15. Hannah Ryder, “The End of Poverty in China?” Project Syndicate, March 28, 2017, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-end-rural-poverty-by-2020-by-hannah-ryder-1-2017-03?barrier=accessreg.

16. The World Bank Development Research Group, “Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.20 a Day (2011 PPP) (% of Population),” https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.LMIC?locations=CN.

17. The World Bank Development Research Group, “Poverty Headcount Ratio at $5.50 a Day (2011 PPP) (% of Population),” https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.UMIC?locations=CN.

18. Brendan Coates and Nghi Luu, “China’s Emergence in Global Commodity Markets,” June 1, 2017, https://static.treasury.gov.au/uploads/sites/1/2017/06/01-China-Commodity-demand.pdf.

19. Peter Corne and Johnny Browaeys, “China Cleans Up Its Act on Environmental Enforcement,” Diplomat, December 9, 2017, https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/china-cleans-up-its-act-on-environmental-enforcement/.

20. Michael Hirtzer, “China Agrees to Allow Imports of U.S. Rice for First Time: USDA,” Reuters, July 20, 2017, http://www.scmp.com/business/global-economy/article/2103518/china-allows-imports-us-rice-first-time-ever.

21. Kroeber, China’s Economy, 456.

Chapter 12

1.   “For Asia, the Path to Prosperity Starts with Land Reform,” Economist, October 12, 2017, https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21730184-countries-did-it-properly-have-grown-fastest-asia-path-prosperity-starts-land.

Chapter 13

1.   Jim O’Neill, “Who You Calling a BRIC?” Bloomberg View, November 13, 2013, https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-11-12/who-you-calling-a-bric-; Jim O’Neill, “The ‘Next Eleven’ and the World Economy,” Bloomberg View, April 18, 2018, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/n-11-global-economy-by-jim-o-neill-2018-04.