Environmental Resource Management
China's GDP growth has routinely exceeded 10% per annum for the last thirty years.
This expansion has dramatic and direct impacts on the natural environments in China and in neighbouring parts of the Asia Pacific region.
Moreover, China has the dubious honour of housing some of the world’s most polluted cities.
The impact of China's carbon dioxide production on the global environment is undeniable.
The impact of China's expanding fisheries industry has been felt throughout the maritime environments of the Pacific Ocean.
Researchers in the Centre aim to promote knowledge of the nature and scope of China’s impact on environmental change in the local, regional and global contexts.
Current projects being undertaken by researchers in the China Research Centre in this area include:
Competition, Cooperation and Resource Depletion: Fisheries Interactions Among China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea
Researchers: Dr. Kate Barclay, Dr. Chongyi Feng, Sunhui Koh (University of Technology Sydney)
This project brings together three issues of urgent importance to the Pacific region; volatile political relations between the countries of northeast Asia, economic integration in the region, and environmental devastation of fish stocks. It investigates the history of fishing interactions within northeast Asia from the late 1880s to now, including the paradoxical nexus between divisive nation-state based politics and integrative economic connections. The aim is to provide informed analysis of the political and economic factors affecting fisheries resource management in the region.
