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China Confronts Climate Change: A bottom-up perspective (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research) - Softcover

Book 19 of 74: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

Koehn, Peter

 
9781138942097: China Confronts Climate Change: A bottom-up perspective (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 113894209X ISBN 13: 9781138942097
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own population and for people living around the world. Assessments of China’s climatic-system consequences, impact, and responsibilities need to take into account the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of subnational governments, non-governmental organizations, transnational non-state connections, and the urban populace in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. A multitude of recent local initiatives that have engaged subnational China in actions that mitigate emissions can be enhanced by powerful framings that appeal to citizen concerns about air pollution and health conditions.

China Confronts Climate Change offers the first fully comprehensive account of China’s response to climate change, based on engagement with the global climate governance literature and current debates over responsibility along with specific insights into the Chinese context. Responsible implementation of any overarching climate agreement depends on expanding China’s subnational contributions. To remain fully informed about GHG-emissions mitigation, China watchers and climate-change monitors need to pay close attention to bottom-up developments.

The book provides a valuable contemporary resource for students, scholars, and policy leaders at all levels of governance who are concerned with climate change, environmental politics, and sustainable urban development.

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About the Author

Peter H. Koehn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Montana, USA. He is a Fulbright New Century Scholar, and the recipient of APLU’s 2011 Michael P. Malone Award for International Leadership and the 2012 George M. Dennison Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment. He has taught and conducted research in Shanghai and Hong Kong, SAR.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
113894209X
ISBN 13 
9781138942097
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
234