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Governing Sustainable Energies in China (Politics and Development of Contemporary China)
Geoffrey Chun-Fung Chen
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Description for Governing Sustainable Energies in China (Politics and Development of Contemporary China)
Hardcover. Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Num Pages: 309 pages, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPB; KCM; RND; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Politics and Development of Contemporary China
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319309682
SKU
V9783319309682
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Ref
99-15
About Geoffrey Chun-Fung Chen
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, ... Read more
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