Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-developmental State

Ashley Esarey

ISBN 10: 0295747919 / ISBN 13: 9780295747910

Published by University of Washington Press, 2020

New copy - Usually dispatched within 7-11 working days. Seller Inventory # B9780295747910

Synopsis:

A timely collection examining a diverse region’s environmental shifts East Asia hosts a fifth of the world’s population and consumes over half the world’s coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and a tenth of its natural gas. It also produces a third of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, making it a major contributor to climate change. The region—whose countries share ecological, sociocultural, and political characteristics while varying in size, resource wealth, history, and political systems—offers excellent insights into the complex dynamics influencing environmental politics, advocacy, and policy. With essays addressing Japan after Fukushima, coal plants and wind turbines in China, environmental activism in Taiwan, and sustainable rural development in South Korea, Greening East Asia explores a region’s shift from development to “eco-development” in acknowledgment that environmental sustainability is a critical component of economic growth.

About the Authors: Ashley Esarey is associate professor of political science and East Asian studies at the University of Alberta. He is the coauthor, with Hsiu-lien Lu, of My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power (University of Washington Press, 2014); and coeditor of Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization (University of Washington Press, 2020) and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State (University of Washington Press, 2020).

Mary Alice Haddad is professor of government, East Asian studies, and environmental studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists (MIT, 2021), and Environmental Politics in East Asia (Cambridge, 2023); and coeditor of NIMBY Is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World (Berghahn Books, 2015) and Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State (Washington, 2020).

Joanna Lewis is associate professor of science, technology, and international affairs and distinguished associate professor of energy and environment at Georgetown University and faculty affiliate in the China Energy Group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is the author of Green Innovation in China: China’s Wind Power Industry and the Global Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy (Columbia, 2013) and Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China's Clean Energy Sector (MIT, 2023); and coeditor of Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State (Washington, 2020).

Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Greening East Asia: The Rise of the ...
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New