Non-state Actors in China and Global Environmental Governance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. An Introductory Framework for Researchers and Practitioners

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Dan Guttman, Yijia Jing, Oran R. Young

      Pages 3-15

   3. The State, Nonstate Actors, and China’s Environmental Performance: Setting the Stage

      • Dan Guttman, Yijia Jing, Oran R. Young

      Pages 17-54

   4. The Landscape of Non-state Actors and China Environmental Governance: Illustrative Roadmaps to Processes and Institutions

      • Ruoyu Chen, Xingjian Zhang

      Pages 55-90

3. The Institutional Landscape: Some Key Organizational Types

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. The Governance Effect of Environmental CSR Reporting in China: State and Non-State Facilitation

      • Lydia J. Price

      Pages 93-124

   3. Will China Industrial Organizations Succeed in Addressing the “Trust Deficit” Arising from Global Supply Chain Governance?

      • Juan Zhang

      Pages 125-149

   4. Extending Enforcement: How the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs Leverages Public Information to Strengthen Environmental Governance

      • Kate Logan

      Pages 151-190

4. China Nonstate Actors and Global Environmental Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Water Stewardship: Engaging Business, Civil Society and Government in Collaborative Solutions to China’s Freshwater Challenges

      • Michael Spencer, Zhenzhen Xu

      Pages 193-224

   3. Non-industry and Nonstate Actors Contribution in the Standard Drafting Process: Examples from the Development of China Room Air Conditioner Standards

      • Xiaopu Sun, Richard (“Tad”) Ferris

      Pages 225-247

   4. In the Shadow of the State: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Private Certification in China’s Seafood Sector

      • Yixian Sun

      Pages 249-277

   5. Green Supply Chain Initiatives in China: The Roles of Nonstate Actors

      • Lingxuan Liu

      Pages 279-303

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.

• Governance in China
• Environmental Law
• NGOs
• Civil Society in China
• Sustainable Development Goals

"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.

 

• Tianjin University Law School, Tianjin, China

  Dan Guttman

• School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  Yijia Jing

• Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barb, Santa Barbara, USA

  Oran R. Young

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.

 

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