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Author : Heung-yeung Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Environmental Politics in Hong Kong written by Heung-yeung Lee and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Jobin
Publisher : Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789814951081
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene written by Paul Jobin and published by Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection provides a powerful and sophisticated analysis of how environmental movements influence politics in Asia, and how politics influences movements." -- John S. Dryzek, Centenary Professor, University of Canberra "This important book reflects the challenges and questions currently foremost in scholars', activists' and policy-makers' minds-the Anthropocene, environmental justice, China's Belt and Road Initiative, and post-politics-all addressed through the lens of environmental movements in Asia. -- Jonathan Rigg, Professor at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol "How have authoritarianism, democratization and political change affected environmentalism in East and Southeast Asia? How have environmental mobilization and demands for environmental justice at the grassroots influenced politics there? These are among the vital questions answered by this insightful and well-crafted volume." --Paul G. Harris, Chair Professor of Global and Environmental Studies, Education University of Hong Kong "This book shows convincingly that the concept of Anthropocene is as relevant in Asia as anywhere." -- Philip Hirsch, Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, University of Sydney "Despite its claims to universality, the Anthropocene concept remains largely a Western phenomenon. This book is crucial in correcting this view by putting environmental movements in Asia center stage." -- Eva Horn, Professor of Literature and Cultural History, University of Vienna
Author : Harris, Paul G.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447308344
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China written by Harris, Paul G. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on practices and theories of sustainability, Environmental policy and sustainable development in China explores the prospects for achieving environmentally benign economic and social development in China and beyond. Using the Chinese 'world city' of Hong Kong as a backdrop and case study, it introduces major conceptions of sustainability, describes historical and political contexts for environmental policymaking, and analyses key challenges related to sustainable development, including air pollution, water quality, waste, transport and climate change. The book will be a valuable and unique resource for students, teachers and readers interested in environmental policy, sustainable development and ecological governance, especially in China and Hong Kong. All of the author's royalties from sales of this book will be donated by Policy Press to Friends of the Earth (Hong Kong) and WWF (Hong Kong).
Author : Yanzhong Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108841910
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Toxic Politics written by Yanzhong Huang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's deepening health crisis reveals the fragility of the party-state and undercuts China's ability to project influence internationally.
Author : Timothy K. Choy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Politics by Example written by Timothy K. Choy and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy K. Choy
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349523
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Ecologies of Comparison written by Timothy K. Choy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn anthropological study of the surge of environmentalist activity in the years surrounding Hong Kong's transfer from British to Chinese sovereignty./div
Author : 刘晓凤
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Global China Goes Green written by 刘晓凤 and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helena Hsi-Chia Chen
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041194916
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Environmental Law in Hong Kong written by Helena Hsi-Chia Chen and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to legislation and practice concerning the environment in Hong Kong. A general introduction covers geographic considerations, political, social and cultural aspects of environmental study, the sources and principles of environmental law, environmental legislation, and the role of public authorities. The main body of the book deals first with laws aimed directly at protecting the environment from pollution in specific areas such as air, water, waste, soil, noise, and radiation. Then, a section on nature and conservation management covers protection of natural and cultural resources such as monuments, landscapes, parks and reserves, wildlife, agriculture, forests, fish, subsoil, and minerals. Further treatment includes the application of zoning and land-use planning, rules on liability, and administrative and judicial remedies to environmental issues. There is also an analysis of the impact of international and regional legislation and treaties on environmental regulation. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for environmental lawyers handling cases affecting Hong Kong. Academics and researchers, as well as business investors and the various international organizations in the field, will welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value in the study of comparative environmental law and policy.
Author : Anton Cooray
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9403545747
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Environmental Law in Hong Kong written by Anton Cooray and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2022-11-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this book provides ready access to legislation and practice concerning the environment in Hong Kong. A general introduction covers geographic considerations, political, social and cultural aspects of environmental study, the sources and principles of environmental law, environmental legislation, and the role of public authorities. The main body of the book deals first with laws aimed directly at protecting the environment from pollution in specific areas such as air, water, waste, soil, noise, and radiation. Then, a section on nature and conservation management covers protection of natural and cultural resources such as monuments, landscapes, parks and reserves, wildlife, agriculture, forests, fish, subsoil, and minerals. Further treatment includes the application of zoning and land-use planning, rules on liability, and administrative and judicial remedies to environmental issues. There is also an analysis of the impact of international and regional legislation and treaties on environmental regulation. Its succinct yet scholarly nature, as well as the practical quality of the information it provides, make this book a valuable resource for environmental lawyers handling cases affecting Hong Kong. Academics and researchers, as well as business investors and the various international organizations in the field, will welcome this very useful guide, and will appreciate its value in the study of comparative environmental law and policy.
Author : Suzanne Pepper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742508774
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Keeping Democracy at Bay written by Suzanne Pepper and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong's political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Exploring the interplay between colonial, capitalist, communist, and democratic forces in shaping Hong Kong's political institutions and culture, Suzanne Pepper offers a fresh perspective on the territory's development and a gripping account of the transition from British to Chinese rule. The author carries her narrative forward through the lives of significant figures, capturing the personalities and issues central to understanding Hong Kong's political history. Bringing a balanced view to her often contentious subject, she places Hong Kong's current partisan debates between democrats and their opponents within the context of China's ongoing search for a viable political form. The book considers Beijing's increasing intervention in local affairs and focuses on the challenge for Hong Kong's democratic reformers in an environment where ultimate political power resides with the communist-led mainland government and its appointees.
Author : Yuan Xu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429838859
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Environmental Policy and Air Pollution in China written by Yuan Xu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China’s sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in tandem with rapid economic growth but then dropped to a level not seen for at least four decades. Despite this favorable mitigation outcome, Xu details how this stemmed from a litany of policy stumbles within the Chinese context of no democracy and a lack of sound rule of law. Throughout this book, the author examines China’s environmental governance and strategy and how they shape environmental policy. The chapters weave together a goal-centered governance model that China has adopted of centralized goal setting, decentralized goal attainment, decentralized policy making and implementation. Xu concludes that this model provides compelling evidence that China’s worst environmental years reside in the past. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese environmental policy and governance, air pollution, climate change and sustainable development, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in these fields. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429452154, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : TING-WAH. KAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781374719095
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Institutionalization of Environmental Risk in Hong Kong written by TING-WAH. KAN and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Institutionalization of Environmental Risk in Hong Kong: Science, Politics and the Emergence of a Risk Society" by Ting-wah, Kan, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: ABSTRACT The study of environmental risk has been extended from the realm of science to social science. In light of this trend, this study is to employ the concepts from the disciplines of politics and sociology in order to obtain a more holistic view of the issue. The study involves a framework building exercise that can incorporate the roles of knowledge-based parties such as experts, professionals, academia and technocrats into the political power structure of environmental risk politics. Moreover, their interactions with the policy decision-makers and the lay public are also included. The framework developed in this study contains three basic notions from various scholars from the discipline of sociology. They are the "Scientization of Politics" from Habermas, "Risk Society" from Beck and "Citizen Science" from Irwin. The framework provides possible scenarios for the development of the power structure of environmental risk politics. The different scenarios would affect the process of institutionalization of environmental risk. These scenarios may be grouped into two paradigms of institutionalization: the "Authoritarian Technocracy" and "Ecological Democracy." The former involves the close linkage of technical experts and technocrats of government with the scientism as the basic ideology. The latter portrays the scrutiny of technical issues by the public with the idea of citizen science. iThe second part of the study focuses on the discussion of various cases of environmental risk in Hong Kong within this framework. Some of the cases are heavily involved with the grassroots community movement. These involve the potentially hazardous installations in Tsing Yi Island, the Anti-Daya Bay Nuclear Plant campaign and electromagnetic fields of the overhead transmission lines. Moreover, some of the cases are advocated by experts without much public involvement. These concern the radon gas, indoor air pollution, and Dongjiang water pollution. The interactions among the government, experts and public have been extensively discussed. The processes of institutionalization of environmental risk with the community mobilization are recorded. The changing nature of environmental risk also influences the institutionalization of environmental risk. The emergence of a risk society in Hong Kong is the first issue to be explored. Moreover, environmental risks such as genetically modified foods and bird flu are discussed. In these cases, international super regimes on environmental risk and safety standards are involved. The roles of various factors in environmental risk politics and institutions are discussed under the future trend of development of this issue. The main focuses would be placed on political parties, the technocrats, radical green groups, academia and mass media. As this kind of research is only in an embryonic stage in Hong Kong, future research directions are suggested. ii DOI: 10.5353/th_b3011180 Subjects: Environmental health - Government policy - China - Hong Kong Risk
Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262338874
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Global Cities written by Robert Gottlieb and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.
Author : Terri Mottershead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Development in Hong Kong written by Terri Mottershead and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Development in Hong Kong provides a unique and pioneering examination of what the application of the ideas of sustainable development implies for Hong Kong with all its exceptional characteristics, political, social, ecological, and especially its very high urban density. The book brings together, for the first time, a broad cross-section of 21 public and private sector specialists in the many and varied aspects of sustainable development. In so doing, it demonstrates the breadth and depth of local knowledge and expertise in the subject, as well as the wide range of concepts and issues that will have to be considered and interests reconciled, for the concept to be fully implemented in Hong Kong. Sustainable development has been defined as "development that meets the needs of today whilst not affecting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Implementing this concept requires that decision-makers from all stakeholder groups (government, business and the public) not only commit to sustainable development, but also incorporate it at every level of decision-making regardless of the political, economic, social, technological, cultural and legal frameworks within which their decisions are made. It also requires that, before doing so, they hear, respect and utilize the input from each other in these decisions. Sustainable development was placed squarely on the political agenda in Hong Kong through the Chief Executive's commitment to it in his Policy Address in 1999. This was followed by the adoption of it as an overriding objective in Hong Kong 2030 Planning Vision and Strategy (2001) and the establishment of the Sustainable Development Unit (2001) and the Council for Sustainable Development (2003). This is a book for all who are concerned about Hong Kong's environment and about its future development. The exceptional nature of Hong Kong means that this book also provides a valuable extreme case study for all who work in the sustainable development field.
Author : Lam Wai-man
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317453026
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Understanding the Political Culture of Hong Kong: The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization written by Lam Wai-man and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the widely held belief that Hong Kong's political culture is one of indifference. The term "political indifference" is used to suggest the apathy, naivete, passivity, and utilitarianism of Hong Kong's people toward political life. Taking a broad historical look at political participation in the former colony, Wai-man Lam argues that this is not a valid view and demonstrates Hong Kong's significant political activism in thirteen selected case studies covering 1949 through the present. Through in-depth analysis of these cases she provides a new understanding of the nature of Hong Kong politics, which can be described as a combination of political activism and a culture of depoliticization.
Author : Wai-man Lam
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888139479
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics written by Wai-man Lam and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title describes the present political system and development in Hong Kong. The second edition assesses the main strands of continuity and change in Hong Kong's government and politics since the creation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 1997.
Author : Natalie Wai Man Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000374866
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Waste Management in Greater China written by Natalie Wai Man Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of municipal waste is a common challenge found in the urbanised cities of Greater China, but the question of how to manage municipal waste is controversial. Wong examines the politics of managing municipal waste in three cities of Greater China: Guangzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong. She looks at the controversies that arise from the issue and the consequent politicisation of the various solutions that are adopted. Focusing particularly on the dynamics of policy actors in the three cities, she compares the different political situations in each with the others. This provides a valuable lens through which to explore the larger issue of the political transformation of Environmental Management in the Greater China region. A compelling insight into environmental policymaking in Greater China, for scholars studying the dynamics of Chinese politics.
