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Governing Sustainable Energies in China

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Authors:
  1. Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen

    1. University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Inst Pol. Sci., Inst East Asian Stud., Duisburg, Germany

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  • Presents one of the first detailed empirical studies of environmental governance in a non-liberal state
  • Challenges orthodox views about democracy, market economy, and climate change management
  • Draws on rich data archives, including news reports, policy dossiers, internal documents, and interviews with 32 provincial officials, business leaders, academic researchers, and NGO practitioners

Part of the book series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China (PDCC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Capacity Building for Sustainable Energy Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. How States Build Sustainable Energy Capacity

      • Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen
      Pages 3-30

    3. Orthodoxies of Energy Governance

      • Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen
      Pages 31-63

    4. Theoretical Approaches to the System of Governance of Renewable Energy in China

      • Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen
      Pages 65-111

  3. China’s Growing ‘Strategic’ Sustainable Energy Industry

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      Pages 113-113
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    2. The Chinese State, the Perceived Environmental Crisis, and the Mixed Paradigm for Diffusing Non-Hydro Renewable Energy

      • Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen
      Pages 115-165

    3. Jiangsu: Regional Renewable Planning and Deployment

      • Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen
      Pages 167-196

    4. Zhejiang: Regional Renewable Planning and Deployment

      • Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen
      Pages 197-218

    5. Towards a New Model of Sustainable Energy Development?

      • Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen
      Pages 219-255

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 257-296
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About this book

This book examines sustainable energy development in China, a non-liberal state, as a counterexample to conventional wisdom that effective policy outcomes are premised on the basis of decentralized governance. The use of sustainable energies as part of the solution for stabilising global warming has been promoted in industrialised countries for the past three decades. In the last ten years, China has expanded its renewable energy capacity with unprecedented speed and breadth. This phenomenon seems to contradict the principle of orthodox environmental governance, in which stakeholder participation is deemed a necessary condition for effective policy outcomes. Based upon policy documents, news report and interviews with 32 policy makers, business leaders, and NGO practitioners in selected subnational governments, this book examines the politics of sustainable energy in China. It engages debates over the relationships among democratic prioritisation, environmental protection, and economicempowerment, arguing that China’s quasi-corporatist model in the sustainable energy field challenges Western scholars’ dominant assumptions about ecopolitics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Inst Pol. Sci., Inst East Asian Stud., Duisburg, Germany

    Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen

About the author

Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen holds a Research Fellow post in the Institute of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is also a Research Associate at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. Prior to this appointment, he was an Affiliated Scholar at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, China. Chen’s work focuses on Chinese politics, environmental politics, and comparative political economy. He received his PhD from the University of Bath, UK.

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