Green politics in China : environmental governance and state-society relations / Joy Y. Zhang and Michael Barr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Joy Yueyue, 1981-

Contributor:

Barr, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--China.

Environmental policy.

China--Environmental conditions.

China.

Physical Description:

viii, 159 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on interviews with members of grassroots organisations, media and government institutions, Green Politics in China is an in-depth account of the novel ways Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, using examples rarely captured in Western media or academia. The struggle for clean air, low-carbon conspiracy theories, is transforming Chinese society, producing new forms of public fund raising and the encouraging the international tactics of grassroots NGOs. In doing so, they challenge static understandings of state-society relations in China, providing a crucial insight into the way in which China is changing internally and emerging as a powerful player in global environmental politics.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Who is to Blame?

2. Ways of Seeing

3. Ways of Changing

4. Conformist Rebels

5. The Green Leap Forward

Conclusion: To Stomach a Green Society

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781849649131

1849649138

9781849649124

184964912X

OCLC:

852251822

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access