Greening China’s Urban Governance
Tackling Environmental and Sustainability Challenges
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Performance Reviews, Public Accountability, and Green Governance in Hangzhou
The study asks whether Hangzhou’s system of public sector performance reviews promotes sustainability governance. The author begins by examining how ideas and concepts relating to sustainable urban development...
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Energy Policy Design and China’s Local Climate Governance: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Policies in Hangzhou
This study probes climate policy design at city level in China, with Hangzhou’s energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) policies between 2005 and 2014 as a case. The study applies a political action a...
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Fuels for the Future? The Emerging Architecture in China’s Liquid Biofuels Market
Alternative transport fuels — i.e. hydrogen, natural gas, and liquid biofuels — are seen as options to help the transport sector, in the broadest sense, to decrease its dependency on oil and to reduce its nega...
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From ‘Worn’ to ‘Green’ China Model? Energy in the 12th Five-Year Plan in an Environmental and Climate-Change Perspective
Since the reforms started in 1978, the Chinese development model has been exceptionally successful in delivering growth, but it has also depleted China’s resources dramatically and has been based on the use of...
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China’s “Radicalism at the Center”: Regime Legitimation through Climate Politics and Climate Governance
The article examines whether there is reciprocity between the legitimating effects of China’s regime at home and abroad and how global governance and legitimacy interact in the case of China. This is done thro...
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China’s “Radicalism at the Center”: Regime Legitimation Through Climate Politics and Governance
As China is now the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses (GHG) (IEA 2010; OECD/IEA 2009), the Chinese regime has recognized that it is vital to exert its influence on the development of global climate ...
