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Science 4 January 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5859, pp. 37 - 38
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150416
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT:
Revolutionizing China's Environmental Protection

Jianguo Liu1* and Jared Diamond2

China's growth has created severe environmental problems that will require fundamental changes in China's administrative system and its model of economic development.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA; and Guest Professor, State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Geography Department, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

*Author for correspondence, E-mail: jliu{at}panda.msu.edu

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