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Environmental Politics in China: An Issue Area in Review

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Abstract

It should be said at the outset that this chapter is not entirely an intellectual history. Rather, it takes a thematical approach to review the most important findings offered by the existing literature that to an extent define the field of environmental politics within the broad context of China studies. The themes are the state and environmental governance, public awareness and environmental social activism, and environmental foreign relations. They are reviewed with two particular questions in mind: What distinguishes the environmental area from politics in general in China? What do studies of environmental protection tell us about Chinese politics that otherwise would have not been known?

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Notes

  1. 1.

    After the publication of the first version, the author was invited by Prof. Huan Qingzhi to give a talk based on the review and discuss with peer political theorists at the Peking University in November 2010. The author is grateful to Prof. Huan and other scholars at the talk for sharing their insights on this particular argument.

  2. 2.

    Official statement can be found at http://www.cciced.org. Accessed 10 March 2009.

  3. 3.

    The LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) program was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in the early 1990s.

  4. 4.

    Official website http://www.chinaceap.org. Accessed 10 March 2009.

  5. 5.

    Timothy Hildebrandt’s most recent comparative study of the political economy of NGO registration in environment, HIV/AIDS prevention and gay and lesbian rights confirms that on average environmental NGOs have a longer organizational history than the ones in the two other issue areas (Hildebrandt 2011). Another good indicator of the development of environmental NGOs is the significant amount of scholarly work devoted to them in China studies in recent years. Many earliest empirical research and field reports in English language on voluntary-based associations in post-Mao China highlighted environmental NGOs e.g., (National Committee on U.S.-China Relations 1994; Raab 1996; Zhang 1995).

  6. 6.

    The China Environment Series published annually provides an inventory of American and international NGOs and research institutions that have ongoing projects in environmental protection and energy in China.

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Wu, F. (2013). Environmental Politics in China: An Issue Area in Review. In: Guo, S. (eds) Political Science and Chinese Political Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29590-4_6

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