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China Goes Green

Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet
Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2020
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4312-0 (ISBN)
19,90 inkl. MwSt
What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world’s most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues “ecological civilization”? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a model of state-led environmentalism which concentrates decisive political, economic, and epistemic power under centralized leadership. On the face of it, China seems to embody hope for a radical new approach to environmental governance.  

In this thought-provoking book, Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro probe the concrete mechanisms of China’s coercive environmentalism to show how ‘going green’ helps the state to further other agendas such as citizen surveillance and geopolitical influence. Through top-down initiatives, regulations, and campaigns to mitigate pollution and environmental degradation, the Chinese authorities also promote control over the behavior of individuals and enterprises, pacification of borderlands, and expansion of Chinese power and influence along the Belt and Road and even into the global commons. Given the limited time that remains to mitigate climate change and protect millions of species from extinction, we need to consider whether a green authoritarianism can show us the way. This book explores both its promises and risks.

Yifei Li is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai, and Global Network Assistant Professor at NYU. Judith Shapiro is Professor and Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at American University.

Introduction: The Rise of Authoritarian Environmentalism Ecological Civilization as Political Philosophy

A Global Call to Action

What is State-led Environmentalism?

Authoritarianism in Green Clothing

Towards Mutually Agreed-upon Coercion

1 Asserting “Green” Control: The State and its Subjects

Campaigns and Crackdowns

Environmental Campaigns

Justifications and Risks

Target-setting

Targets Gone Awry

Behavior Modification

Environmentalism at a Price

Notes

2 “Green” China Pacifies its Borders

One-size-fits-all Policymaking

Afforestation by Monoculture

The Loess Plateau as an Unscalable Success

The Industrialized Forest of Uxin Banner

Green Grabbing: Hydropower as Ecological Civilization and Modernization

Green Grabbing as a Tool of Government Control

Citizen Resistance: The Nu River and Tiger Leaping Gorge

Ecological Migration: Sedentarizing Nomads and Building Parks

Protected Areas and National Parks

Pacifying Borderlands in the Name of the Environment

3 The State on the “Green” Belt and Road

The Belt and Road Initiative and the Environment

Win-win Green Development

The Quest for Soft Power

Green Technocracy

A Morass of Contradictions

4 Global China Goes “Green”

Mastering the Trade Game

Banning Global Waste Imports

Withholding Rare Earths

Curbing the Endangered Species Trade

Engineering China’s Atmosphere

Blue Skies or Bust

Constructing “Sky River”: Weather Modification on the Tibetan Plateau

Outer Space Environmentalism: The Digital Belt and Road

Geoengineering the Earth’s Climate

Mining the Moon

The Sleeping Lion Awakes

5 Environmental Authoritarianism on a Troubled Planet

Environmental Fix

Authoritarian Resilience

Techno-political Underpinnings

Transactional Logic

Indispensable Civil Society

Consultation under State Leadership

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 216 mm
Gewicht 318 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 1-5095-4312-0 / 1509543120
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-4312-0 / 9781509543120
Zustand Neuware
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