Environmental Governance in China

This is an important examination of how China is currently dealing with environmental problems and challenges, and of its successes, failures and dilemmas. This new book gives special attention to the development of 'environmental governance' in contemporary China, especially in the urban, industrial and infrastructure sectors, showing how the rapid economic growth that has transformed China in recent years has major implications for the environment, as well as future economic development. Leading international scholars explore a range of key issues, including: - economic growth and the environment - the environmental policy process - the legal framework for environmental protection - the role of environmental NGOs - energy policy - water issues - biotechnology and GMOs - and the international dimension This new volume shows how environmental policy, politics and governance are core issues posed by China's accelerated economic development. At the same time it analyzes, illustrates and argues that major steps are under way in taking up these challenges. in doing so the book provides an in-depth, balanced and comprehensive assessment of contemporary environmental reforms in China. This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics Neil Carter is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York, UK Arthur P. J. Mol is Chair and Professor of Environmental Policy at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.Carter, Neil is the author of 'Environmental Governance in China', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415371698 and ISBN 0415371694.