{"id":3114,"date":"2014-09-18T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T13:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/riley-institute-presents-conference-about-chinas-environmental-crisis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:44:31","slug":"riley-institute-presents-conference-about-chinas-environmental-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institute-presents-conference-about-chinas-environmental-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute presents conference about China&#8217;s environmental crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ChinaConference2014sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14166 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/ChinaConference2014sized-medium.jpg\" alt=\"ChinaConference2014sized\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/188;\" \/><\/a>The Riley Institute at Furman and the Furman University Department of Asian Studies will present a national conference on the environmental crisis in China Monday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m., and Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Younts Conference Center on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s Environmental Crisis: Is There A Way Out?\u201d is free and open to the public. No registration is required. The symposium, part of Furman&#8217;s Cultural Life Program, is presented with support from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment, the Furman Department of Political Science, and the Shi Center for Sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Session and panel topics include:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina&#8217;s Environmental Choke Points\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMoving Forward: National Priorities and Grassroots Responses,\u201d a panel addressing reforestation and lessons from the anti-dam protests at Pubugou<br \/>\n\u201cSaving China\u2019s Environment: Give Power to the People\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Featured speakers are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Turner<\/strong>, PhD, Director, China Environment Forum, Woodrow Wilson Center<br \/>\n<strong>Stevan Harrell<\/strong>, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington<br \/>\n<strong>Andrew Mertha<\/strong>, PhD, Professor of Government and Director of the China and Asia Pacific Studies Program, Cornell University<br \/>\n<strong>Patricia Adams<\/strong>, economist and Executive Director of Probe International, an independent think-tank and environmental watchdog<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the symposium and for speaker bios, visit this <em><a href=\"http:\/\/riley.furman.edu\/riley\/critical-issues\/chinas-global-rise\/china%E2%80%99s-environmental-crisis-there-way-out\">link<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Riley Institute at Furman and the Furman University Department of Asian Studies will present a national conference on the environmental crisis in China Monday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m., and Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Younts Conference Center.\u00a0\u201cChina\u2019s Environmental Crisis: Is There A Way Out?\u201d is free and open to the public. No registration is required. The symposium, a CLP event, is presented with support from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment, the Furman Department of Political Science, and the Shi Center for Sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":13694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,17,32,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-asian-studies","category-centers-and-institutes","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}