Handbook on Climate Change and Environmental Governance in China

Edited by Xiaowei Zang, Chair Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, City University of Hong Kong and Xiaoling Zhang, Professor, Department of Real Estate and Construction, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong

• List of contributors viiiAcknowledgements xivList of abbreviations xvPART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction: Climate change and environmental governance in China 3Xiaowei Zang and Xiaoling Zhang2 Historical materialist policy analysis to study the state of climateadaptation policymaking in China 19Julia Teebken3 From political incentive to blame avoidance: Revisiting the 20-yeartrajectory of China’s environmental politics 42Ran Ran4 From “people conquering nature” to “ecological civilization”:A corpus-based study of the shifts and continuities in climate discoursesin China 55Lucy Xia Zhao and Xiaowei Zang5 The key to sustainability science: From “homo economicus man” to“eco economic man” 73Xiaoling Zhang and Yali HuangPART II GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS6 Rethinking China’s clean energy transitions: Eco-security andauthoritarian sustainability 87Geoffrey C. Chen7 Environmental accidents and environmental legislation in China 103Xiaowei Zang8 Effects of government expenditure for environmental protection on SO 2pollution in China 119Lei Jiang and Shixiong He9 Unwilling or unable? Encouraging the environmental leadershipbehaviors of public administrators in China 139Xuejiao Niuvi Handbook on climate change and environmental governance in China10 Environmental regulation and haze pollution: Neighbor-companion orneighbor-beggar? 158Qian Zhou, Shihu Zhong, and Tao Shi, with Xiaoling Zhang11 Strengthening environmental governance in the food sector: Learningfrom China’s progress in dairy safety 179Jonathan Schwestka and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira12 Representations of dual carbon goals in English-language newsreporting by China’s official media 200Guofeng Wang, Can Cui, and Yingzi QuPART III CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION13 Pursuing sustainable urbanization with the decoupledurbanization-emission nexus: Evidence from Chinese provinces 222Li He14 Central policy change and decoupling urbanization from emission in China 246Xiaowei Zang15 Revisiting the myth of energy efficiency in China 259Ruohan Zhong and Chu Wei16 Contradiction and routine in “new enclosure competition”: Landgovernance in wind power facilities in China 278Shengwen Tseng and Chunkuei Lai17 Climate change and Chinese green bonds 291Jeanne Le Galcher Baron, Enrico Dalla Riva, and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira18 Governance of green bonds in China 305Jiun-Da LinPART IV ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE19 Does the market tell the truth? The role of third-party organizations inenvironmental data collection in China 323Xuejiao Niu and Jie Gao20 Third-party monitoring and environmental data manipulation: The caseof air quality control in Chinese cities 345Chengwei Wang and Liang Ma21 Corporate property rights and environmental NGOs’ participation inenvironmental conflict 359Ying Yin and Xuejiao Niu22 Environmental feedback mechanisms and state responsiveness 374Hedda FlatøPART V CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA23 Science diplomacy for low-carbon transition: Assessing China’sengagement with ASEAN 395Lunting Wu and Andrea Valente

‘This volume offers a unique collection of research on the burgeoning field of environmental and climate governance in China. The chapters are highly informative and reflexive, and provide a wide view of environmental issues and related patterns of governance in the PRC. The Handbook also showcases the vibrancy of the international research community in this area, with a leading contribution by Chinese scholars. It will be an asset for all scholars and students with an interest in China and the environment.’