Air Pollution Governance in East Asia

Kuei-Tien Chou is Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University (NTU). Director, Risk Society and Policy Research Center, NTU, Taiwan.Koichi Hasegawa is Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Shokei Gakuin University, Japan.Dowan Ku is Director of Environment and Society Research Institute, South Korea.Shu-Fen Kao is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Fo Guang University, Taiwan.

• List of figures List of tablesList of contributors 1 Cosmopolitan governance to transboundary air pollution in East AsiaSHU-FEN KAO AND KUEI-TIEN CHOUPART IAir pollution politics in East Asia 2 Politics of air pollution: how fine dust has become a politicized issue in Korea MINJAE KIM AND DOWAN KU 3 The sovereignty of air pollution? The political ecology of particulate matter SANGHUN LEEPART IIRegional and transboundary air politics 4 China’s transboundary pollutants and Taiwan’s air politicsPAUL JOBIN, SHIH-HAO JHENG AND CHEE WEI YING 5 Asymmetric barriers in atmospheric politics of transboundary air pollution: a case of particulate matter (PM) cooperation between China and South Korea TAEDONG LEE AND WOOYEAL PAIK6 Atmospheric environment management regime building in East Asia: limitation of imitating the convention on long-range transboundary air pollution and current new development 106JUSEN ASUKAPART IIINational air pollution battles 7 Air quality injustice in Taiwan: just transition as the next chapter of environmental governance in post-developmental states KUEI-TIEN CHOU AND DAVID WALTHER 8 Air quality governance in China: authoritarian environmentalism and the coal-to-gas switch campaign CHELSEA C. CHOU, CHIH-SUNG TENG, CHIN-EN WU AND KUAN-CHEN LEE 9 Social history of air pollution in Japan: focusing on the second stage caused by automobilesMANAMI HORIHATAPART IVContested risk constructions of air pollution10 The individualization of responsibility for transboundary air pollution in Korea INKYOUNG KIM11 Science in air pollution politics: school allocation and regulatory control disputes on SNCC, Taiwan WEN-LING TU12 Rethinking the sources of air pollution and urban policies in Hong Kong PAULINA PY WONG Index