Since the USA has accumulated rich experience and made a remarkable achievement in both the theory and practice of economic development and environmental protection, this book makes intensive studies on the social system and policy of the environmental protection in the USA, and provides policy suggestions on the coordinated development between economy and environment based on China’s actual situations. 

Dr. Cao Caihong of Beihang University, born in 1972, has taught at Murray State University of the USA and is now an Associate Professor of School of Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University. She is interested in ecological economy.