China Confronts Climate Change offers the first fully comprehensive account of China’s response to climate change, based on engagement with the global climate governance literature and current debates over responsibility along with specific insights into the Chinese context. Responsible implementation of any overarching climate agreement depends on expanding China’s subnational contributions. To remain fully informed about GHG-emissions mitigation, China watchers and climate-change monitors need to pay close attention to bottom-up developments.
The book provides a valuable contemporary resource for students, scholars, and policy leaders at all levels of governance who are concerned with climate change, environmental politics, and sustainable urban development.
Peter H. Koehn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Montana, USA. He is a Fulbright New Century Scholar, and the recipient of APLU’s 2011 Michael P. Malone Award for International Leadership and the 2012 George M. Dennison Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment. He has taught and conducted research in Shanghai and Hong Kong, SAR.