1. What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
The Global Environmental Institute is a China-based non-profit, non-governmental organization that was established in Beijing in March 2004 with DUNS code of 545238037. GEI’s mission is to design and implement market-based models for solving environmental problems in order to achieve development that is economically, ecologically and socially sustainable.
2. What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
Before the Word Environment Day this year, visitors were accompanied by the experts from GEI along with the British Council staff to learn about Beijing Olympic Park’s dragon-shaped water and wetland system. The GEI experts showed the significance of ecological engineering and biodiversity. Also the GEI is currently working with the US-based Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) in localizing the CCS low-carbon development planning methodology and tools to fit the economic and policy context at the provincial level in China. Then finally achieve economic development while reducing emissions.
3. What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
As a China-based NGO with an international focus, GEI fuses best practices in environmental protection, energy conservation and community livelihoods with innovative market mechanisms to drive sustainable development. In addition to the lasting impact of the projects domestically, they strongly emphasis on international cooperation on energy and the environment has allowed them to assume a leading role in improving China’s environmental impact abroad.
4. Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
By facilitating cooperation between government departments, academic institutions, private enterprises and civil society organizations, GEI seeks out integrated solutions to economic development and environmental protection in China. More specifically, GEI aims to: energy and climate change, biodiversity conservation, investment, trade and environment and biodiversity, also with capacity building. They gather the data from field or policies of other countries. For example, GEI tried to figure out the deficiencies of policy making in the program of China-U.S. cooperation on China's subnational low carbon planning toolkit development and application.
5. What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
GEI typically collects global news about air quality in China, especially Beijing. For example, the Huffington Post has a report of “The air pollution in China has become the biggest threat to people” in April 6th, 2013. GEI uses their platform to share these news, which provides people a path to know about the air quality with data analysis.
6. What research has the organization produce or drawon on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
The typical research of GEI in environmental arena last year is the project of Low-carbon Planning & Energy Efficiency which cooperated with the United States. The project team is researching both China and US energy and climate policies, which would provide information and policy analysis for GEI project participants, lay a good foundation for further discussion on China-US collaboration on climate change and enhance mutual understanding and trust.
7. What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
They typically focus on international cooperation on energy and environment. This allow GEI becomes a leading role in improving China’s environmental impact abroad.
8. What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
GEI uses their platform to share these news, which provides people a path to know about the air quality with data analysis. This is a perspicacious way of engaging in environmental health. Therefore, most people can figure out different symptoms raised by respiratory system diseases. For example, the asthma, cystic fibrosis and pneumonia.
9. What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
GEI believes that solving environmental problems cannot be separated from solving social and economic problems. This is especially true in developing countries like China, where conventional approaches to environmental protection often fail because they hinder economic activity. There is urgent need for new solutions that work with the market to provide sustainable livelihoods and thriving ecosystems. GEI was founded to find those solutions.
10. What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The Global Environmental Institute (GEI) is a Chinese non-profit, non-governmental organization that was established in Beijing, China in 2004. Their mission is to design and implement market-based models for solving environmental problems in order to achieve development that is economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable.
11. What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
In order to better serve people in environmental health arena, GEI also started its marketing transition several years ago. The Beijing Future Prosperity Resources and Hi-tech Co., Ltd. (Beijing FP) was officially registered in July 2006. Founded in part to continue the commercialization work initiated during GEI’s projects, its primary aim is to assist Small-and-Medium Enterprises, particularly in areas where local biodiversity is threatened, in promoting their unique, local and environmentally friendly products and facilitating their entry into high-end markets throughout China. Beijing FP also assists in the construction of biogas digesters and delivers related trainings. As a socially responsible enterprise, Beijing FP aims to help local communities achieve economically, socially and ecologically sustainable development.
12. What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
Sometimes it’s not easy for them to develop the capacity of leaders and civil society to design, implement, and enforce socially and ecologically-sound development policy in rural, urban, and industrial sectors in China and around the world.
13. What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
Facilitate government implementation of environmentally friendly policies and guidelines for investment and trade, while urging policy makers to place greater importance on sustainable development and resource use. At the same time, GEI works to guide the environmental and social conduct of China’s overseas enterprises. GEI researches, designs and promotes financial and commercial models as well as policy tools like Payments for Ecological Services (PES), Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to pilot at its project sites. For all of its projects, GEI partners with and engages in capacity building of all relevant stakeholders. Based on the success of these demonstration projects, GEI then submits policy recommendations to relevant government departments, works to establish market mechanisms and assists enterprises in environmental institution building.
14. How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
Since Asthma file project recorded the air quality in different areas, including Beijing. It also identified how specific monitoring techniques and practices related to air quality in each country. Because GEI is an organization strongly emphasis on international cooperation on energy and environment, so they both envision a healthy and diverse world, a world in which society, the environment and the economy develop in harmony.
2. 野性中国 (Wild China)
1. What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
Wild China is a six-partnature documentary series on thenatural history ofChina, co-produced by theBBC Natural History Unit andChina Central Television (CCTV). The2008 Beijing Olympics gave the BBC Natural History Unit team the opportunity to make the first comprehensive series on China'snatural history.
2. What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
They took an in-depth look at some of China's most impressive natural sites such as the ancient Han kingdom, the Mongol steppes, the Silk Road and the Tibetan Plateau.
3. What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
The series consists of six episodes, each of which deals with the wildlife and people's lifestyles from a different part of China's territory. The first episode "Heart of the Dragon" focuses on South China, with an astonishingly impressive landscape. The second episode "Shangri-La" profiles the rich biodiversity of south-western Yunnan province. The third episode "Tibet" explores the Tibetan Plateau, looking at the traditional lifestyles of Tibetan Buddhists and wildlife. The fourth episode "Beyond the Great Wall" looks at the lands north of China's Great Wall. The fifth episode "Land of the Panda" features central China, looking at how the relationship between people and wildlife has changed over time. And lastly, the sixth episode "Tides of Change" traces China's coasts, 14,500km long, home to 700 million people.
4. Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
They filmed these six episodes to show China in a way of how environment and society are connected. This approach awoke people’s attention in protecting environment, especially after knowing how beautiful our country is.
5. What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
Filming for the series took place over 16 months, and involved half a million miles of travel on 57 separate filming trips to some of China's most inaccessible and spectacular locations. The production team shot over 500 hours of HD footage in 26 of China's 30 provinces.
6. What research has the organization produce or drawn on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
With the support of local party officials, the producers found it easier to contact and film local people. They were particularly keen to record examples of traditional lifestyles which incorporate the natural world to give the series a cultural context. The episodes were divided by region to present the distinct cultural as well as ecological differences.
7. What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
Over 80% of the series was based on traditional observational techniques in the wild.[7] Part of them were conducted in some of China's most remote areas. They basically rely on the high-speed camera and thermal imaging cameras.
8. What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
Permission for Wild China was granted in 2005, with the BBC working alongside local partners CTV, aBeijing production company closely allied to state broadcaster CCTV. The series marks the first time that CCTV has collaborated with a foreign broadcaster. Their action shows people the significance of avoiding air pollution. If everyone can think in this way, the number of people who are suffering from asthma will decline.
9. What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
The2008 Beijing Olympics gave the BBC Natural History Unit team the opportunity to make the first comprehensive series on China'snatural history. In the run up to the Games, the Chinese government was "understandably keen to promote itself as a country worth visiting" according to BBC producer Phil Chapman. Phil Chapman said that "We want the Chinese to feel proud of their countryside and wildlife, to care about it and to seek to ensure its survival. We also hope to redress the negative view of China's environment propagated in western media."
10. What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The Wild China was co-produced by theBBC Natural History Unit andChina Central Television (CCTV). The series was billed as the culmination of the BBC Natural History Unit's "Continents" programs, a long-running strand of blue-chip wildlife documentaries which surveyed the natural history of each of the world's major land areas.
11. What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of theBBC which produces television, radio and online content with anatural history orwildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regardednature documentaries, including The Blue Planet and Planet Earth. It has been praised as “a national resource for people's understanding and love of wildlife on our planet, and a symbol of both quality and talent in public service broadcasting”.
12. What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
It’s challenge lighting the pitch-black world of animals that live underground. This same difficult also happens when film the creature underwater.
13. What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
In the run up to the Games, the Chinese government was "understandably keen to promote itself as a country worth visiting" according to BBC producer Phil Chapman.
14. How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
One of the aims of The Asthma Files project is to evoke people’s attention in environmental health and the air quality. The Wild China gives a picture of how beautiful our earth could be. This is an good advertisement which The Asthma Files project is looking for.
- 1. What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
The Global Environmental Institute is a China-based non-profit, non-governmental organization that was established in Beijing in March 2004 with DUNS code of 545238037. GEI’s mission is to design and implement market-based models for solving environmental problems in order to achieve development that is economically, ecologically and socially sustainable.1. 全球环境研究所( Global Environmental Institute)
- 2. What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
Before the Word Environment Day this year, visitors were accompanied by the experts from GEI along with the British Council staff to learn about Beijing Olympic Park’s dragon-shaped water and wetland system. The GEI experts showed the significance of ecological engineering and biodiversity. Also the GEI is currently working with the US-based Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) in localizing the CCS low-carbon development planning methodology and tools to fit the economic and policy context at the provincial level in China. Then finally achieve economic development while reducing emissions.- 3. What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
As a China-based NGO with an international focus, GEI fuses best practices in environmental protection, energy conservation and community livelihoods with innovative market mechanisms to drive sustainable development. In addition to the lasting impact of the projects domestically, they strongly emphasis on international cooperation on energy and the environment has allowed them to assume a leading role in improving China’s environmental impact abroad.- 4. Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
By facilitating cooperation between government departments, academic institutions, private enterprises and civil society organizations, GEI seeks out integrated solutions to economic development and environmental protection in China. More specifically, GEI aims to: energy and climate change, biodiversity conservation, investment, trade and environment and biodiversity, also with capacity building. They gather the data from field or policies of other countries. For example, GEI tried to figure out the deficiencies of policy making in the program of China-U.S. cooperation on China's subnational low carbon planning toolkit development and application.- 5. What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
GEI typically collects global news about air quality in China, especially Beijing. For example, the Huffington Post has a report of “The air pollution in China has become the biggest threat to people” in April 6th, 2013. GEI uses their platform to share these news, which provides people a path to know about the air quality with data analysis.- 6. What research has the organization produce or drawon on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
The typical research of GEI in environmental arena last year is the project of Low-carbon Planning & Energy Efficiency which cooperated with the United States. The project team is researching both China and US energy and climate policies, which would provide information and policy analysis for GEI project participants, lay a good foundation for further discussion on China-US collaboration on climate change and enhance mutual understanding and trust.- 7. What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
They typically focus on international cooperation on energy and environment. This allow GEI becomes a leading role in improving China’s environmental impact abroad.- 8. What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
GEI uses their platform to share these news, which provides people a path to know about the air quality with data analysis. This is a perspicacious way of engaging in environmental health. Therefore, most people can figure out different symptoms raised by respiratory system diseases. For example, the asthma, cystic fibrosis and pneumonia.- 9. What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
GEI believes that solving environmental problems cannot be separated from solving social and economic problems. This is especially true in developing countries like China, where conventional approaches to environmental protection often fail because they hinder economic activity. There is urgent need for new solutions that work with the market to provide sustainable livelihoods and thriving ecosystems. GEI was founded to find those solutions.- 10. What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The Global Environmental Institute (GEI) is a Chinese non-profit, non-governmental organization that was established in Beijing, China in 2004. Their mission is to design and implement market-based models for solving environmental problems in order to achieve development that is economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable.- 11. What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
In order to better serve people in environmental health arena, GEI also started its marketing transition several years ago. The Beijing Future Prosperity Resources and Hi-tech Co., Ltd. (Beijing FP) was officially registered in July 2006. Founded in part to continue the commercialization work initiated during GEI’s projects, its primary aim is to assist Small-and-Medium Enterprises, particularly in areas where local biodiversity is threatened, in promoting their unique, local and environmentally friendly products and facilitating their entry into high-end markets throughout China. Beijing FP also assists in the construction of biogas digesters and delivers related trainings. As a socially responsible enterprise, Beijing FP aims to help local communities achieve economically, socially and ecologically sustainable development.- 12. What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
Sometimes it’s not easy for them to develop the capacity of leaders and civil society to design, implement, and enforce socially and ecologically-sound development policy in rural, urban, and industrial sectors in China and around the world.- 13. What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
Facilitate government implementation of environmentally friendly policies and guidelines for investment and trade, while urging policy makers to place greater importance on sustainable development and resource use. At the same time, GEI works to guide the environmental and social conduct of China’s overseas enterprises. GEI researches, designs and promotes financial and commercial models as well as policy tools like Payments for Ecological Services (PES), Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to pilot at its project sites. For all of its projects, GEI partners with and engages in capacity building of all relevant stakeholders. Based on the success of these demonstration projects, GEI then submits policy recommendations to relevant government departments, works to establish market mechanisms and assists enterprises in environmental institution building.- 14. How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
Since Asthma file project recorded the air quality in different areas, including Beijing. It also identified how specific monitoring techniques and practices related to air quality in each country. Because GEI is an organization strongly emphasis on international cooperation on energy and environment, so they both envision a healthy and diverse world, a world in which society, the environment and the economy develop in harmony.
2. 野性中国 (Wild China)- 1. What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
Wild China is a six-part nature documentary series on the natural history of China, co-produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and China Central Television (CCTV). The 2008 Beijing Olympics gave the BBC Natural History Unit team the opportunity to make the first comprehensive series on China's natural history.- 2. What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
They took an in-depth look at some of China's most impressive natural sites such as the ancient Han kingdom, the Mongol steppes, the Silk Road and the Tibetan Plateau.- 3. What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
The series consists of six episodes, each of which deals with the wildlife and people's lifestyles from a different part of China's territory. The first episode "Heart of the Dragon" focuses on South China, with an astonishingly impressive landscape. The second episode "Shangri-La" profiles the rich biodiversity of south-western Yunnan province. The third episode "Tibet" explores the Tibetan Plateau, looking at the traditional lifestyles of Tibetan Buddhists and wildlife. The fourth episode "Beyond the Great Wall" looks at the lands north of China's Great Wall. The fifth episode "Land of the Panda" features central China, looking at how the relationship between people and wildlife has changed over time. And lastly, the sixth episode "Tides of Change" traces China's coasts, 14,500km long, home to 700 million people.- 4. Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
They filmed these six episodes to show China in a way of how environment and society are connected. This approach awoke people’s attention in protecting environment, especially after knowing how beautiful our country is.- 5. What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
Filming for the series took place over 16 months, and involved half a million miles of travel on 57 separate filming trips to some of China's most inaccessible and spectacular locations. The production team shot over 500 hours of HD footage in 26 of China's 30 provinces.- 6. What research has the organization produce or drawn on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
With the support of local party officials, the producers found it easier to contact and film local people. They were particularly keen to record examples of traditional lifestyles which incorporate the natural world to give the series a cultural context. The episodes were divided by region to present the distinct cultural as well as ecological differences.- 7. What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
Over 80% of the series was based on traditional observational techniques in the wild.[7] Part of them were conducted in some of China's most remote areas. They basically rely on the high-speed camera and thermal imaging cameras.- 8. What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
Permission for Wild China was granted in 2005, with the BBC working alongside local partners CTV, a Beijing production company closely allied to state broadcaster CCTV. The series marks the first time that CCTV has collaborated with a foreign broadcaster. Their action shows people the significance of avoiding air pollution. If everyone can think in this way, the number of people who are suffering from asthma will decline.- 9. What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
The 2008 Beijing Olympics gave the BBC Natural History Unit team the opportunity to make the first comprehensive series on China's natural history. In the run up to the Games, the Chinese government was "understandably keen to promote itself as a country worth visiting" according to BBC producer Phil Chapman. Phil Chapman said that "We want the Chinese to feel proud of their countryside and wildlife, to care about it and to seek to ensure its survival. We also hope to redress the negative view of China's environment propagated in western media."- 10. What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The Wild China was co-produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and China Central Television (CCTV). The series was billed as the culmination of the BBC Natural History Unit's "Continents" programs, a long-running strand of blue-chip wildlife documentaries which surveyed the natural history of each of the world's major land areas.- 11. What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) is a department of the BBC which produces television, radio and online content with a natural history or wildlife theme. It is best known for its highly regarded nature documentaries, including The Blue Planet and Planet Earth. It has been praised as “a national resource for people's understanding and love of wildlife on our planet, and a symbol of both quality and talent in public service broadcasting”.- 12. What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
It’s challenge lighting the pitch-black world of animals that live underground. This same difficult also happens when film the creature underwater.- 13. What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
In the run up to the Games, the Chinese government was "understandably keen to promote itself as a country worth visiting" according to BBC producer Phil Chapman.- 14. How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
One of the aims of The Asthma Files project is to evoke people’s attention in environmental health and the air quality. The Wild China gives a picture of how beautiful our earth could be. This is an good advertisement which The Asthma Files project is looking for.