Greening China : the benefits of trade and foreign direct investment / Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeng, Ka, 1973-

Contributor:

Eastin, Joshua.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Michigan studies in international political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--China.

Environmental policy.

International trade.

China--Environmental conditions.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"'The authors make some very critical interventions in this debate and scholars engaged in the environmental pollution haven and race to the bottom debates will need to take the arguments made here seriously, re-evaluating their own preferred theories to respond to the insightful theorizing and empirically rigorous testing that Zeng and Eastin present in the book.' -Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon. China has earned a reputation for lax environmental standards that allegedly attract corporations more interested in profit than in moral responsibility and, consequently, further negate incentives to raise environmental standards. Surprisingly, Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin find that international economic integration with nation-states that have stringent environmental regulations facilitates the diffusion of corporate environmental norms and standards to Chinese provinces. At the same time, concerns about 'green' tariffs imposed by importing countries encourage Chinese export-oriented firms to ratchet up their own environmental standards. The authors present systematic quantitative and qualitative analyses and data that not only demonstrate the ways in which external market pressure influences domestic environmental policy but also lend credence to arguments for the ameliorative effect of trade and foreign direct investment on the global environment."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Chapter 1: Theoretical Contentions and Analytical Approaches

Chapter 2: Debunking the "Pollution-Haven" and "Race-to-the-Bottom" Hypothes

Chapter 3: Environmental Pollution and Regulation in China

Provincial-Level Analyses

Chapter 4: Pollution Havens and Racing to the Bottom: A Provincial-Level Analysis

Chapter 5: Do Chinese Provinces "Trade Up" and " Invest Up"?

Firm-Level Analyses

Chapter 6: How Do Firms Behave? Survey Evidence from Business Executives

Chapter 7: Asia Pulp &amp

Paper: Local Standards, World Markets, and Environmental Protection

Chapter 8: Implications, Caveats, and Future Research Questions

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786613282354

9780472901197

0472901192

9781283282352

1283282356

9780472027101

0472027107

OCLC:

756582827

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access