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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Waste management and environmentalism in China

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by the Dr Christine Pearson and Dr Rachel Slater. It was first published in December 2018.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources. Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Course image: © iStock / Getty Images Plus

Figure 1: © Tim Graham / Contributor / Getty Images;

Figure 2: © Wen Wenyu / Greenpeace;

Figure 3: Taken from http://landfill-gas.com/1980s-landfill-gas-explosions.html;

Figure 5(a): © Aixinjueluo Huaer;

Figure 5(b): © Aixinjueluo Huaer;

Figure 5(c): © Aixinjueluo Huaer;

Figure 5(d): © Aixinjueluo Huaer;

Figure 7: © Material reproduced with kind permission of the Open Wash Programme;

Figure 9: © Based Action Network 2013;

Figure 10: Adapted from https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAhAAAAAJDQ4YTFiZGRkLTA2MGEtNDgzZi05MjQ4LTk0NWYyMGI2MDUyNQ.png;

Figure 11(a): Courtesy Jane Gilbert;

Figure 11(b): Courtesy Jane Gilbert;

Figure 12(a): © Aixinjueluo Huaer;

Figure 12(b): © Aixinjueluo Huaer;

Figure 13: © ironjohn / www.dreamstime.com;

Figure 16: © Yongsky / www.dreamstime.com;

Figure 17(a): © Julian Herbert / Staff / Getty Images;

Figure 17(b): © Photo taken at TED2015 by Joss Bleriot, Ellen MacArthur Foundation;

Figure 18: Taken from https://twitter.com/beijingair?lang=en;

Figure 19: © Newscom / Alamy Stock Photo;

Figure 20: Adapted from: Duan H., Loiselle S.A., Zhu L., Feng L., Zhang Y., Ma R., (2015) Figure 3, 'Distribution and Incidence of Algal Blooms in Lake Taihu', Springer;

Acknowledgements are due to Nick Sinclair, Professor Tian Song (Beijing Normal University), Dr Jane Gilbert (Carbon Clarity) and all those who helped contribute to the case studies.

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