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Since 1997, the China Environment Forum has been active in creating programming and publications to encourage dialog among U.S. and Chinese scholars, policymakers, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations on environmental and energy challenges in China.
Current Initiative:
Environmental Health—With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, CEF is working with Western Kentucky University (WKU) on a new China Environmental Health Project (CEHP). This section includes research briefs on the human health impacts of polluted air, water, land and the policies and activism driving these and food safety.
Ongoing Initiatives:
Climate Change and Energy
Water
Environmental NGOs, Public Participation, and Governance
Students: Apply your interests to an internship at the China Environment Forum! Fall application deadline is July 17, 2009.
Job Seekers: Browse job listings in the field of China and the environment advertised through our network.
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Publications
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China Environment Series 10 (2008/2009)
Authors in this issue of the China Environment Series examine many of China's environmental health challenges, with emphasis throughout on potential steps to address these problems through regulation, better research, greater NGO involvement, and international assistance.
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Event Summaries
China's Watersheds Under Stress
Thursday, June 18 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Jon Barnett, Melbourne University; Kristen McDonald, China Rivers Project; Zhang Jingjing, CLAPV
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Animal Investigators: Solving Wildlife Crimes and Saving Endangered Species in Brazil and China
Wednesday, May 20 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Laurel Neme, author of Animal Investigators; Crawford Allen, WWF; Kevin Garlick, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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Seeing Through the Smog: Promoting Sino-U.S. Cooperation on Air Quality, Environmental Health, and Climate Change
Tuesday, May 12 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Robert O'Keefe, Health Effects Institute; Denise Mauzerall, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, UMDNJ-School of Public Health
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China Environment Forum
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: cef@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4233
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