Climate Change Governance in Asia

: 11 June 2020

Climate Change Governance in Asia

Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably India, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand are among those most affected by climate change, in terms of economic losses attributed to climate-related disasters.

Asia is an extremely diverse region, in terms of the political regimes of its constituent countries, and of their level of development and the nature of their civil societies. As such, its countries are producing a wide range of governance approaches to climate change. Covering the diversity of climate change governance in Asia, this book presents cosmopolitan governance from the perspective of urban and rural communities, local and central governments, state-society relations and international relations. In doing so it offers both a valuable overview of individual Asian countries’ approaches to climate change governance, and a series of case studies for finding solutions to climate change challenges.

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Editors

Kuei-Tien Chou is Professor at the Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University and Lead Principal Investigator of Risk Society and Policy Research Center, National Taiwan University.

Koichi Hasegawa is Professor of Sociology at Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Japan.

Dowan Ku is Director of Environment and Society Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea.

Shu-Fen Kao is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Fo Guang University, Taiwan.

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Introduction

Part I. Framework of Climate Change Governance in Asian Countries

Koichi Hasegawa
Climate Change Governance in Japan: Critical Review on Japan's INDC and its Energy Policy

Kuei-Tien Chou and Hwa Meei Liou
Climate Change Governance in Taiwan: The Transitional Gridlock by a High Carbon Regime

Sun-Jin Yun
Climate Change Governance in Korea: Focusing on the Process of the Establishment of its NDC

Kang Chen and Alex Y Lo
Climate Governance in China: the role of International Organisations in the Guangdong Emission Trading Scheme

Part II. Risks and Transition

Chaya Vaddhanaphuti
Governing Climate Knowledges: what can Thailand Climate Change Master Plan and climate project managers learn from lay Northern Thai villagers?

Midori Aoyagi
Risk Perceptions and Attitudes Toward National Energy Choices and Climate Change in Japan and European Countries

Chia-Wei Chao and Kuei-Tien Chou
Governing the Climate-Driven Systemic Risk in Taiwan – Challenges and Perspectives

Hajime Kimura
Ecological Modernization, New Technologies and Framing in the Environmental Movement: A climate Change Mitigation Technology (CO2 capture and storage) and its Environmental Risk

Part III. Local Governance on Climate Change Adaptation

So-Young Lee, Eric Zusman and Seejae Lee
Tracing Sustainability Transitions in Seoul Governance: Enabling and Scaling Grassroots Innovations

Anshu Ogra
Rethinking Adaptation to Climate Change in the Policy Landscape of India

Leah Abayao
Disaster Risk Governance in Northern Philippines Communities: Issues and Prospects in Climate Change Talks

Roger S. Chen and Ho-Ching Lee
Assessing Climate Governance of Tainan City through Stakeholder Networks and Text Mining

Contributors

Leah Abayao is Professor of History and former Director of Cordillera Studies Center at the University of the Philippines, Baguio.

Midori Aoyagi is Principle Researcher at the Center for Social & Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan.

Chia-Wei Chao is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Risk Society and Policy Research Center, College of Social Science, National Taiwan University.

Kang Chen is PhD graduate of the Department of Geography, the University of Hong Kong.

Roger S. Chen is Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Construction Engineering and Management, National Central University, Taiwan.

Koichi Hasegawa is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University, Japan.

Shu-Fen Kao is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Fo Guang University, Taiwan.

Hajime Kimura already has a PhD in Science, Waseda University in Tokyo, and now he is studying for his PhD in Sociology, Meiji University, Japan.

Dowan Ku is Director of the Environment and Society Research Institute,

Seoul, South Korea.

Ho-Ching Lee is Professor at the Center for General Education, National Central University. Taiwan

Seejae Lee is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Korea.

So-Young Lee is Senior Policy Researcher and Research Manager at the Sustainability Governance Centre, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan.

Hwa Meei Liou is Professor at the Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Taiwan University of Science & Technology.

Alex Y. Lo is Senior Lecturer in Climate Change at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Anshu Ogra is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Landslip Project at the Department of Geography, King’s College London.

Chaya Vaddhanaphuti is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

Sun-Jin Yun is Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University.

Eric Zusman is Senior Policy Researcher/Area Leader at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan.