Non-state Actors in China and Global Environmental Governance

Dan Guttman is a lawyer and former public servant who has devoted his career to issues of public policy. Since arriving in China as a Fulbright scholar in 2004, he has taught and developed comparative China/western governance courses and programs at Shanghai Jiao Tong, Peking, Tianjin, Tsinghua, and Fudan Universities and taught at Duke Kunshan University and New York University Shanghai. Yijia Jing is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, and Professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University.Oran Young is professor emeritus and co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara.

• Part one.- Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: The State, Nonstate Actors, and China’s Environmental Performance: Setting the Stage.- Chapter Three: The Landscape of Nonstate Actors and China Environmental Governance: Illustrative Roadmaps to Processes and Institutions.- Part two.- Chapter Four: The Governance Effect of Environmental CSR Reporting in China: State and Non-State Facilitation.- Chapter Five: Will China Industrial Organizations Succeed in Addressing the “Trust Deficit” Arising from Global Supply Chain Governance?.- Chapter Six: Extending Enforcement: How the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs Leverages Public Information to Strengthen Environmental Governance.- Part three.-Chapter Seven: Water Stewardship: Engaging Business, Civil Society and Government in Collaborative Solutions to China’s Freshwater Challenges.- Chapter Eight: Non-Industry and Nonstate Actors Contribution in the Standard Drafting Process:Examples from the Development of China Room Air Conditioner Standards.- Chapter Nine: In the Shadow of the State: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Private Certification in China’s Seafood Sector.- Chapter Ten: Green Supply Chain Initiatives in China: The Roles of Nonstate Actors.