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Focussing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyse various cases of air pollution within East Asia. A valuable read for researchers and policy-makers looking at air pollution and transboundary governance challenges within and beyond East Asia.
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1 Cosmopolitan governance to transboundary air pollution in East Asia
SHU-FEN KAO AND KUEI-TIEN CHOU
PART I
Air pollution politics in East Asia
2 Politics of air pollution: how fine dust has become a politicized issue in Korea
MINJAE KIM AND DOWAN KU
3 The sovereignty of air pollution? The political ecology of particulate matter
SANGHUN LEE
PART II
Regional and transboundary air politics
4 China’s transboundary pollutants and Taiwan’s air politics
PAUL JOBIN, SHIH-HAO JHENG AND CHEE WEI YING
5 Asymmetric barriers in atmospheric politics of transboundary air pollution: a case of particulate matter (PM) cooperation between China and South Korea
TAEDONG LEE AND WOOYEAL PAIK
6 Atmospheric environment management regime building in East Asia: limitation of imitating the convention on long-range transboundary air pollution and current new development 106
JUSEN ASUKA
PART III
National air pollution battles
7 Air quality injustice in Taiwan: just transition as the next chapter of environmental governance in post-developmental states
KUEI-TIEN CHOU AND DAVID WALTHER
8 Air quality governance in China: authoritarian environmentalism and the coal-to-gas switch campaign
CHELSEA C. CHOU, CHIH-SUNG TENG, CHIN-EN WU AND KUAN-CHEN LEE
9 Social history of air pollution in Japan: focusing on the second stage caused by automobiles
MANAMI HORIHATA
PART IV
Contested risk constructions of air pollution
10 The individualization of responsibility for transboundary air pollution in Korea
INKYOUNG KIM
11 Science in air pollution politics: school allocation and regulatory control disputes on SNCC, Taiwan
WEN-LING TU
12 Rethinking the sources of air pollution and urban policies in Hong Kong
PAULINA PY WONG
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About the author
Kuei-Tien Chou is Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University (NTU). Director, Risk Society and Policy Research Center, NTU, Taiwan.
Koichi Hasegawa is Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Shokei Gakuin University, Japan.
Dowan Ku is Director of Environment and Society Research Institute, South Korea.
Shu-Fen Kao is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Fo Guang University, Taiwan.
Summary
Focussing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyse various cases of air pollution within East Asia. A valuable read for researchers and policy-makers looking at air pollution and transboundary governance challenges within and beyond East Asia.
