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Climate Change Governance in Asia book cover

1st Edition

Climate Change Governance in Asia

Edited By Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao Copyright 2020
308 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably India, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand are among those most affected by climate change, in... Read more

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List of contributors

  1. Introduction

    2. Part I

    Framework of Climate Change Governance in Asian Countries

  2. Koichi Hasegawa

    3. Climate Change Governance in Japan: Critical Review on Japan's INDC and its Energy Policy

  3. Kuei-Tien Chou and Hwa Meei Liou

    4.

    Climate Change Governance in Taiwan: The Transitional Gridlock by a High Carbon Regime

  4. Sun-Jin Yun

    5.

    Climate Change Governance in Korea: Focusing on the Process of the Establishment of its NDC

  5. Kang Chen and Alex Y Lo

    6.

    Climate Governance in China: the role of International Organisations in the Guangdong Emission Trading Scheme

    Part II

    Risks and Transition

  6. Chaya Vaddhanaphuti

    7.

    Governing Climate Knowledges: what can Thailand Climate Change Master Plan and climate project managers learn from lay Northern Thai villagers?

  7. Midori Aoyagi

    8.

    Risk Perceptions and Attitudes Toward National Energy Choices and Climate Change in Japan and European Countries

  8. Chia-Wei Chao and Kuei-Tien Chou

    9.

    Governing the Climate-Driven Systemic Risk in Taiwan – Challenges and Perspectives

  9. Hajime Kimura

    10.

    Ecological Modernization, New Technologies and Framing in the Environmental Movement: A climate Change Mitigation Technology (CO2 capture and storage) and its Environmental Risk

    Part III

    Local Governance on Climate Change Adaptation

  10. So-Young Lee, Eric Zusman and Seejae Lee

    11.

    Tracing Sustainability Transitions in Seoul Governance: Enabling and Scaling Grassroots Innovations

  11. Anshu Ogra

    12.

    Rethinking Adaptation to Climate Change in the Policy Landscape of India

  12. Leah Abayao

    13.

    Disaster Risk Governance in Northern Philippines Communities: Issues and Prospects in Climate Change Talks

  13. Roger S. Chen and Ho-Ching Lee

           Assessing Climate Governance of Tainan City through Stakeholder Networks and Text Mining

Index

Biography

Kuei-Tien Chou is Professor at the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University and Lead Principal Investigator of Risk Society and Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University.

Koichi Hasegawa is Professor of Sociology at Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Japan.

Dowan Ku is Director of Environment and Society Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea.

Shu-Fen Kao is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Fo Guang University.

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