China's Climate Policy

ISBN-13: 9780415593137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 144 str.

Chen Gang

Opis

This book, unlike other researches which explain China's climate policy from pure economics or politics/foreign policy perspectives, provides a panoramic view over China's climate-related regulations, laws and policies as well as various government and non-government actors involved in the climate politics.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. China’s Participation in Global Climate Politics  2. Is China’s Negotiating Position Responsible?  3. China’s Energy and Environmental Bureaucracy   4. Largest Beneficiary from Carbon Trade  5. China’s Effort to Promote Clean Energy   6. Controversial Alternatives: Great Leap Forward in Hydro and Nuclear Energy 7. Tianjin: Model City of Low-carbon Economy  8. Emerging Civil Society in China’s Climate Politics  9. Conclusion: Motivations behind Policy Consistencies and Variations

O autorze

Chen Gang is Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Since joining the EAI in 2007, he has been tracing China’s environmental and energy policies and publishing extensively about the sustainable development of China. His research papers have appeared in internationally-refereed journals such as The International Spectator, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Journal of East Asian Affairs. He has also contributed a number of book chapters on China’s environmental governance, natural disaster management, and climate change politics to edited volumes published by Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, and other scholarly publishers. He constantly provides policy papers and consultancies to the Government of Singapore, and is frequently interviewed by media such as  Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia and Xinhua News Agency.