Overview
- Explores China's emerging societal response to climate change
- Provides case studies from China in how a society can work towards environmental sustainability
- Explains how international NGOs and legal organizations operate within the Chinese context
Part of the book series: Governing China in the 21st Century (GC21)
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This book is the first effort to develop a broad and deep perspective on the emerging space occupied by “non-state actors” in China in the context of global environmental governance. It will serve as a primer both for scholars seeking to understand China’s environmental governance system and for practitioners working with policymakers and administrators within that system. Individual chapters explore what works in achieving social change, domestically as well as globally, and will provide guidance to activists and directors of NGOs as well as scholars.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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An Introductory Framework for Researchers and Practitioners
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The Institutional Landscape: Some Key Organizational Types
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China Nonstate Actors and Global Environmental Governance
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Reviews
"Non-state actors are playing increasingly important roles in enhancing China’s environmental governance and, more broadly, in modernizing China’s' governance system. However, systematic research on the subject has been astonishingly sparse. This timely volume, edited by internationally-renowned scholars, fills this gap and should lead to a growing interest in this critical issue."
- Ye Qi, Cheung Kong Professor of Environmental Policy, School of Environmental Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
"Focusing on the role of non-state actors, this book offers important insights regarding differences between the political and governing processes of China and the West. I know of no comparable approach to the topic of ecological modernization. The analytical framework applied systematically throughout the book should have a long shelf life."
- Daniel Mazmanian, Chair of Presidential Working Group on Sustainability; Professor and former Dean, University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dan Guttman is a lawyer and former public servant who has devoted his career to issues of public policy. Since arriving in China as a Fulbright scholar in 2004, he has taught and developed comparative China/western governance courses and programs at Shanghai Jiao Tong, Peking, Tianjin, Tsinghua, and Fudan Universities and taught at Duke Kunshan University and New York University Shanghai.
Yijia Jing is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, and Professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University.
Oran Young is professor emeritus and co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-state Actors in China and Global Environmental Governance
Editors: Dan Guttman, Yijia Jing, Oran R. Young
Series Title: Governing China in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6594-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6593-3Published: 05 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6596-4Published: 06 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6594-0Published: 04 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-6968
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6976
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, International Environmental Law, Environmental Management