Environmental Governance in China

by University of Nottingham;

• ISBN13: 9780415463737
• ISBN10: 0415463734
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-01-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the first examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas. It shows how environmental policy, politics and governance are core issues posed by Chinas accelerated economic development.

Table of Contents

China's Environmental Governance in Transition	p. 1
Environmental Governance: the Emerging Economic Dimension	p. 23
Institutional Reform, Economic Changes, and Local Environmental Management in China: the case of Guangdong Province	p. 42
Public Participation with Chinese Characteristics: Citizen Consumers in China's Environmental Management	p. 63
Same Longitude, Different Latitudes: Institutional Change in Urban Water in China, North and South	p. 83
Environmental Implications of Energy Policy in China	p. 100
China's Environmental Governance of Rapid Industrialisation	p. 123
Balancing Technological Innovation and Environmental Regulation: an Analysis of Chinese Agricultural Biotechnology Governance	p. 145
China, the WTO, and Implications for the Environment	p. 162
China and the Environment: Domestic and Transnational Dynamics of a Future Hegemon	p. 182
Index	p. 197
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