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在云南南部的西双版纳,随着国际非政府组织、政府、生物学家和当地人民为中国仅存的亚洲象建立起保护区,这些问题也纷纷显露出来。在20世纪60和70年代,寻找中国大象的中国生物学家们估计,大约有100头大象仍生活在与老挝接壤的西南边境地区。到了80年代,他们开始强调这些大象亟待保护,需要建立保护区才能维持它们的生存。这个自然保护区的存在引起了国际社会特别是世界野生生物基金会(WWF)的注意,后者在1986年开始了一项保护热带雨林和大象的项目。
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由此引发了一个漫长、复杂而有趣的过程,在此期间,中国专家、世界野生生物基金会的工作人员、当地人民、政府和大象之间相互作用,力图找到一个能让大象与当地居民在自然保护区共存下去的办法。争执的焦点在于,谁的“知识”和利益更重要?当大象因寻找稻米谷物而毁坏当地农民的农田时,它们是否以及怎样才能有权继续生存?在使用电围栏阻止大象进入农田遭遇失败和没收农民枪支以防止他们射杀大象之后,当地人认为大象已经变得越来越“厚颜无耻”,也不再惧怕人类了。村民们开始放弃在固定土地上的耕种,转而选择像前文所说的阿卡人的游耕方式。为了满足城市游客对大象的观赏兴趣,还从泰国引进了专业的驯兽师和饲养员,并安置在生态旅游设施“野象谷”中。尽管野生大象的数量确实有所增加,但对于大象和西双版纳的人们来说,这一切最终将走向何方,仍有待观察。[56]
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[1]Robert Carin,RiverControlinCommunistChina(Hong Kong,HK:Union Research Institute,1962),13.
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[2]Robert Carin,RiverControlinCommunistChina(Hong Kong,HK:Union Research Institute,1962),23.
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[3]Ibid.,30-31.
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[4]Yi Si,“The World’s Most Catastrophic Dam Failures:The August 1975 Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams,”in TheRiverDragonHasCome!TheThree GorgesDamandtheFateofChina’sYangtzeRiverandItsPeople,ed.Dai Qing(Armonk,NY:M.E.Sharpe,1998),30.
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[5]Shui Fu,“A Profile of Dams in China,”in TheRiverDragonHasCome!,ed.Dai Qing,18-24.
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[6]关于水利专家黄万里特立独行的故事,他对三门峡大坝的反对意见以及这些对他和他的家庭的影响,可参见Shapiro,Mao’sWaragainstNature,48-62。
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[7]Shapiro,Mao’sWaragainstNature,63.
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[8]Shui Fu,“A Profile of Dams,”20-21.
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[9]Ibid.,21.
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[10]Yi Si,“The World’s Most Catastrophic Dam Failures,”25-38.
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[11]Economy,TheRiverRunsBlack,2.中译本见易明:《一江黑水》,2页。
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[12]Ibid.,4.
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[13]Ibid.,1.
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[14]参见Jim Yardley,“Industrial Pollution Destroys Fish Farms in Rural Area,”TheNewYorkTimes,September 12,2004;Jasper Becker,“The Death of China’s Rivers,”AsiaTimes,August 26,2003;Stephen Voss,“Industrial Pollution Kills Hundreds along the Huai River Basin in China,”http://www.stephenvoss.com/stories/ChinaWaterPollution/story.html;美国公共电视网一部四集纪录片“China from the Inside”中的第三集“Shifting Nature”。
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[15]Economy,TheRiverRunsBlack,8.
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[16]Lee Liu,“Made in China:Cancer Villages,”Environment:ScienceandPolicyforSustainableDevelopment 52,no.2(2010),8-21.
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[17]Li, Fighting Famine in North China, 367-369.
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[18]Ibid.,369.
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[19]Li,FightingFamineinNorthChina,370.
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[20]Jim Yardley,“Beneath Booming Cities,China’s Future Is Drying Up,”The NewYorkTimes,September 28,2007.
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[21]Zhang Quanfa,“The South-to-North Water Diversion Project,”Frontiersin EcologyandtheEnvironment 3,no.2(2005):76;Shai Oster,“Water Project in China Is Delayed,”TheWallStreetJournal,December 31,2008,A4;Jasper Becker,“The Death of China’s Rivers”;“Factbox:Facts on China’s South-to-North Water Transfer Project,”Thomson Reuters,http://reuters.com/assets,February 26,2009.
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[22]Liu Changming,“Environmental Issues and the South-North Water Transfer Scheme,”TheChinaQuarterly no.156(December 1998):904-906.
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[23]Jianguo Wu,Jianhui Huang,Xingguo Han,Xianming Gao,Fengliang He,Mingxi Jiang,Zhigang Jiang,Richard B.Primack,Zehao Shen,“The Three Gorges Dam:An Ecological Perspective,”FrontiersonEcologyandtheEnvironment 2,no.5(2004):241-248.
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