Kuei-Tien Chou, Director of RSPRC

Since the end of the twentieth century, climate warming has created a catastrophic crisis of global environment, economy, society and livelihood, forcing countries around the globe to face the challenges of carbon reduction and adaptation. In the end of 2015, the Paris Agreement signed at the COP21 demonstrates the urgent need for the human society to quickly adjust its social and economic trends in order to curb the rising temperature. In this crucial moment of great economic and social transformation, we need to, from the perspective of climate change, re-evaluate and devise the path of a low-carbon green development for the next fifty years, which includes a new thinking in risk governance, the paradigm of green politics, green towns and cities, and circular economy and so on. And that's exactly what the book has concerned and written about. This book is one of publication under the publishing plan of Sustainable and Green Governance Series, and it is hoped that the book can invoke further criticism and communication among the society to encourage the risk communication for a low-carbon society.