Greening East Asia : the rise of the eco-developmental state / edited by Ashley Esarey, Mary Alice Haddad, Joanna I. Lewis, and Stevan Harrell.

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"East Asia has a fifth of the world's population and consumes over half of the world's coal, a quarter of its petroleum products, and 10 percent of its natural gas. It produces a third of the world's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making it a major contributor to climate change. Following World War...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Esarey, Ashley (Editor)
Haddad, Mary Alice, 1973- (Editor)
Lewis, Joanna I. (Editor)
Harrell, Stevan (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Environmental policy > East Asia > Case studies.
Economic development > Environmental aspects > East Asia > Case studies.
Sustainable development > East Asia > Case studies.
Environmentalism > East Asia > Case studies.
East Asia > Environmental conditions > Case studies.
Ecology.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Environmentalism.
Sustainable development.
East Asia.
Case studies.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:ix, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : the evolution of the East Asian eco-developmental state / Mary Alice Haddad, Stevan Harrell
  • East Asian environmental advocacy / Mary Alice Haddad
  • China's low-carbon energy strategy / Joanna Lewis
  • Energy and climate change policies of Japan and South Korea / Eunjung Lim
  • The politics of pollution emissions trading in China / Iza Ding
  • Legal experts and environmental rights in Japan / Simon Avenell
  • Local energy initiatives in Japan / Noriko Sakamoto
  • Indigenous conservation and post-disaster reconstruction in Taiwan / Sasala Taiban, Hui-nien Lin,Kurtis Jia-chyi Pei, Dau-jye Lu, Hwa-sheng Gau
  • Nature for nurture in urban Chinese childrearing / Rob Efird
  • Sustainability of Korea's first "New Village" / Chung Ho Kim
  • Environmentalism in China's Chengdu Plain / Daniel Benjamin Abramson
  • Environmental activism in Kaohsiung, Taiwan / Hua-mei Chiu
  • Indigenous attitudes toward nuclear waste in Taiwan / Hsi-wen Chang
  • The battle over GMOs in Korea and Japan / Yves Tiberghien
  • Grassroots NGOs and environmental activism in China / Jingyun Dai, Anthony Spires
  • The eco-developmental state and the environmental Kuznets curve / Stevan Harrell.