1st Edition
Taiwan in Net-Zero Transition An East Asian Perspective on Developmental Environmentalism
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 Locked-in: 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
Biography
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.
