Green Politics in China: Environmental Governance and State-Society Relations

Authors

Joy Y. Zhang, University of Kent at Canterbury - U.K.
Michael S. Barr, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

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Based on interviews with members of grassroots organisations, media and government institutions, Green Politics in China is an in-depth account of the novel ways Chinese society is responding to its environmental crisis, using examples rarely captured in Western media or academia.

The struggle for clean air, low-carbon conspiracy theories, is transforming Chinese society, producing new forms of public fund raising and the encouraging the international tactics of grassroots NGOs. In doing so, they challenge static understandings of state-society relations in China, providing a crucial insight into the way in which China is changing internally and emerging as a powerful player in global environmental politics.

Publication Date

2013

Publisher

Pluto Press

Keywords

Chinese environmental politics, imagined communities, environmental non-governmental organization (ENGO), Tian-ren heyi, sanfei, three industrial wastes, sustainable development, China's green politics, climate change

Disciplines

Chinese Studies | Environmental Health and Protection | Environmental Policy

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Copyright © Joy Y. Zhang and Michael Barr 2013. This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

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Zhang, Joy Y. and Michael S. Barr. Green Politics in China: Environmental Governance and State-Society Relations. London: Pluto Press, 2013.