Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies
Online ISSN : 2434-9054
Print ISSN : 1346-6224
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System Analysis on the Emergence and Characteristics of “Post-environmental Problems“ in China
Through an Example of the Biogas Comprehensive Utilization System in Pig Farms Based on a Field Study
Yuyu HUEmako MIYOSHI
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2022 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 81-96

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In China, facing various serious environmental problems, various entities headed by the government have formulated and implemented various environmental countermeasures. These environmental countermeasures have played an important role in responding to environmental problems, but many new problems have also arisen with the implementation of these countermeasures. We call these problems post-environmental problems. This paper takes the introduction of comprehensive biogas utilization systems in various pig farms in Z City as an example to discuss the post-environmental problems that are occurring in China. The comprehensive biogas utilization system of the pig farms effectively solved the problem of manure treatment, but there is the problem of waste of human resources, and there is also the risk of other environmental problems due to high altitude discharge of biogas. Through an abstract analysis of the entire process of implementing environmental countermeasures to deal with environmental problems, we believe that post-environmental problems are universal, and these problems are not easy to be discovered. More importantly, we cannot ignore these post-environmental issues because of the “rationality” of environmental countermeasures.
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