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Beijing Olympic water scheme drains parched farmers (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
From: ReutersENN News Published January 23, 2008 08:21 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/29488 By Chris Buckley BAODING, China (Reuters) Dusty villages far from China's capital are paying their own price for the government's plan ...
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Building a Foundation of Trust, U.S. China Cooperation in Africa (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/35511 From: , Global Policy Innovations Program, More from this Affiliate Published April 29, 2008 09:36 AM Last month, Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political ...
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China Blames Warming for Growing Water Shortages (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
CHINA: November 6, 2007 \\ http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/45167/story.htm\\ \\ {}BEIJING China suffers a water shortage of nearly 40 billion cubic metres a year which Water Resources Minister Chen Lei blamed largely on global warming ...
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Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
JIM YARDLEY Published: November 19, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/world/asia/19dam.html?r=1&hp&oref=slogin JIANMIN VILLAGE, China Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world ...
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Chinese pumpkin farmer cultivates political reform (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
From gourds to politics: Lu Banglie uses the legal system to protect farmers' rights. By Edward Cody\ The Washington Postfrom the July 1, 2008 edition BEIJING \ Back in 1998, Lu Banglie remembered, he was just another farmer trying ...
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Event, ill China Run Out Of Water? (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
Thursday, February 19 The Earth Institute Seminar: Columbia Water Center Seminar Series: Will China Run Out Of Water? with Chunmiao Zheng, Professor of Hydrogeology; SSPA Faculty Fellow; 2009 BirdsallDreiss Distinguished Lecturer, University of Alabama. 1:00 ...
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Streams of blood, or streams of peace (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?storyid=11293 778Rivers May 1st 2008 \ NAIROBI From The Economist print edition  WHEN Ban Kimoon, the UNsecretarygeneral, was asked to ponder the future of the world before an audience of powerful businessmen and politicians, at a meeting ...
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The new colonialists (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
Mar 13th 2008 From The Economist print edition http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?storyid=10853534  China's hunger for natural resources is causing more problems at home than abroad HERE is no exaggerating China's hunger for commodities. The country ...
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Tibetan plateau melts in the face of climate change (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
Source: Nature http://www.scidev.net/en/features/tibetanplateaumeltsinthefaceofclimatechan g.html?utmsource=link&utmmedium=rss&utmcampaign=enfeatures  30 July 2008 \ The Tibetan plateau Flickr/logjaye Climate change is affecting the Tibetan plateau, threatening regional water supplies and altering atmospheric circulation ...
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