Taiwan in Net-Zero Transition - An East Asian Perspective on Developmental Environmentalism

Chou explores the structural dilemmas, mindsets, challenges, and solutions of the net-zero transition in Taiwan. Using Taiwan as a representative example of the structural challenges faced by East Asian countries in achieving net-zero carbon emissions, the book examines developmental environmentalism in the East Asian context.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Why is Taiwan Delaying the Transition? An East Asian Perspective
2. Analysis Framework: Reflexive Governance on Developmental Environmentalism
Part I Structural High Carbon Path
3. Climate Conventions and High Carbon Path
4. Embedded Distrust: Legacy of Environmental Movements
5. Competing Socio-Technical Imagination on Energy Transition and Decarbonization
Part II Deadlock of Transition
6. Weak Socially Robust Knowledge in Net-Zero Transition Movement
7. Reinforced Carbon : Three Missed Opportunities of Carbon Tax
8. Climate Governance Delayism and its Limited Carbon Pricing
Part III Trigger Net-Zero
9. Developmental Net-Zeroism
10. Democratic Deliberative Deficit under Developmental Net-Zeroism
11. Boil Frag in Warm Water: Transition Lag and Anxiety of the Enterprises
Conclusion
12. Rethinking Developmental Net-Zeroism in East Asia

About the author

Kuei Tien Chou is Director of the Risk Society and Policy Research Center at National Taiwan University. He conducts research on risk governance, just transition, and net-zero emissions. He has edited books on energy transition, climate change, and air pollution governance in Asia/East Asia.

Summary

Chou explores the structural dilemmas, mindsets, challenges, and solutions of the net-zero transition in Taiwan. Using Taiwan as a representative example of the structural challenges faced by East Asian countries in achieving net-zero carbon emissions, the book examines developmental environmentalism in the East Asian context.

Product details

• Authors: Kuei Tien Chou, Kuei Tien (Rsprc Chou
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032730523
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273052-3
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Taiwan, Regional Studies, Environmental Management, Regional / International studies, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies