Handbook on climate change and environmental governance in China / edited by Xiaowei Zang (Chair Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, City University of Hong Kong) and Xiaoling Zhang (Professor, Department of Real Estate and Construction, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zang, Xiaowei, editor.

Zhang, Xiaoling, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Handbooks of research on contemporary China

Handbooks of research on contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--China.

Environmental policy.

Climatic changes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"This timely Handbook explores climate challenges and environmental governance in China. Bringing together established scholars and emerging researchers, it systematically examines the historical evolution of Chinese climate policies and institutions and the successes, failures and dilemmas that have arisen from this. Combining theoretical insight with cutting-edge empirical findings, this Handbook focuses on the role of politics in environmental governance. Contributing authors use innovative methodologies to analyse the diverse climate adaptation strategies, priorities and efforts of institutions across China, from central and local government, to citizen and societal organisations. They cover key topics including clean energy transitions, the green economy, climate finance, and environmental data collection. Ultimately, the Handbook provides a detailed overview of the significant progress China has made in environmental policymaking and implementation whilst highlighting the need for continued efforts towards a sustainable development path for the future. The Handbook on Climate Change and Environmental Governance in China is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Asian politics and environmental regulation and governance. It is also a useful guide for policy researchers seeking an insight into the Chinese climate policy landscape"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction: Climate change and environmental governance in China / Xiaowei Zang and Xiaoling Zhang

2. Historical materialist policy analysis to study the state of climate adaptation policymaking in China / Julia Teebken

3. From political incentive to blame avoidance: Revisiting the 20-year trajectory of China's environmental politics / Ran Ran

4. From "people conquering nature" to "ecological civilization": A corpus-based study of the shifts and continuities in climate discourses in China / Lucy Xia Zhao and Xiaowei Zang

5. The key to sustainability science: From "homo economicus man" to "eco economic man" / Xiaoling Zhang and Yali Huang

Part II. Government environmental behaviors

6. Rethinking China's clean energy transitions: Eco-security and authoritarian sustainability / Geoffrey C. Chen

7. Environmental accidents and environmental legislation in China / Xiaowei Zang

8. Effects of government expenditure for environmental protection on so 2 pollution in China / Lei Jiang and Shixiong He

9. Unwilling or unable? Encouraging the environmental leadership behaviors of public administrators in China / Xuejiao Niu vi Handbook on climate change and environmental governance in China

10. Environmental regulation and haze pollution: Neighbor-companion or neighbor-beggar? / Qian Zhou, Shihu Zhong, and Tao Shi, with Xiaoling Zhang

11. Strengthening environmental governance in the food sector: Learning from China's progress in dairy safety / Jonathan Schwestka and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira

12. Representations of dual carbon goals in English-language news reporting by China's official media / Guofeng Wang, Can Cui, and Yingzi Qu

Part III. Climate change mitigation

13. Pursuing sustainable urbanization with the decoupled urbanization-emission nexus: Evidence from Chinese provinces / Li He

14. Central policy change and decoupling urbanization from emission in China / Xiaowei Zang

15. Revisiting the myth of energy efficiency in China / Ruohan Zhong and Chu Wei

16. Contradiction and routine in "new enclosure competition": Land governance in wind power facilities in China / Shengwen Tseng and Chunkuei Lai

17. Climate change and Chinese green bonds / Jeanne Le Galcher Baron, Enrico Dalla Riva, and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira

18. Governance of green bonds in China / Jiun-Da Lin

Part IV. Environmental governance

19. Does the market tell the truth? The role of third-party organizations in environmental data collection in China / Xuejiao Niu and Jie Gao

20. Third-party monitoring and environmental data manipulation: The case of air quality control in Chinese cities / Chengwei Wang and Liang Ma

21. Corporate property rights and environmental NGOs' participation in environmental conflict / Ying Yin and Xuejiao Niu

22. Environmental feedback mechanisms and state responsiveness / Hedda Flatø

Part V. China and southeast asia

23. Science diplomacy for low-carbon transition: Assessing China's engagement with ASEAN / Lunting Wu and Andrea Valente.

Notes:

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035316359 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.