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Informationen zum Autor Peter H. Koehn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Montana, USA. He is a Fulbright New Century Scholar, and the recipient of APLU's 2011 Michael P. Malone Award for International Leadership and the 2012 George M. Dennison Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment. He has taught and conducted research in Shanghai and Hong Kong, SAR. Klappentext China Confronts Climate Change shows that bottom-up initiatives offer a key current prospect for engaging rising China in robust and urgently required GHG-emissions-mitigation actions. This book offers the first fully comprehensive account of China's response to climate change, based on a sound engagement with the global climate governance literature and contemporary debates as well as significant expertise about the Chinese context beyond the climate change arena. For those interested in China's climate politics and urban and local responses to climate change, this book offers a unique set of perspectives and empirical material and is an invaluable resource for this important area of research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction and Overview 1. China’s Position in Climate Futures: Contributions, Consequences, and Responsibilities 2. Framework for Analysis of Contemporary Climate-change Governance 3. China’s National Climate Change Context: Top-Down Governance, Policies, and Constraints 4. Bottom-up Opportunities, Initiatives, and Constraints 5. Subnational Framing of Climate-stabilization Initiatives 6. Current Collaborations and Promising Opportunities: Internal and Transnational 7. The Local Power of Diaspora Connections 8. Conclusion: Bottoms UP?
