Energy Transition in East Asia

Kuei-Tien Chou is Director of Graduate Institute of National Development and also Director of Risk Society and Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University. He got his doctoral degree in sociology from Universität München. His research interests are in the field of technological risk, climate change, risk governance, technological policy-making, public participation, science & democracy as well as East Asia modernity.

• 1. Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Governance of Energy Transition Part I. Risk, Energy and Governance2. Risk Culture, Risk Framing and Nuclear Energy Dispute and in Japan before and after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident 3. The Anti-nuclear movement and ecological democracy in South Korea 4. Triple Helix Energy Transition Movement in Taiwan Part II. Participation and Community Power5. Citizens' Participation-based Energy Transition in a Mega-city: the Case of One Less Nuclear Power Plant in Seoul, South Korea 6. Energy Democratization in Taiwan: Current Problems and the Civil Society’s Advocacy 7. The Grassroots Movement for Energy Transition of Korean Society Part III. Energy and Social Risk8. Structural Disaster beyond Fukushima: Messages from Sociology of Science and Technology 9. Health Effects of Radiation Exposure from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster in Japan: Discussing Uncertainty in the Context of Environmental Issues 10. Nimby or Civil Disobedience? Conflicting Framing and Discourses of Knowledge: Wind Turbine Construction in Taiwan 11. Conclusion: Toward a Participatory and Democratic Risk Governance