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Environmental Governance in Taiwan: A New Generation of Activists and Stakeholders

Grano, Simona Alba (2015). Environmental Governance in Taiwan: A New Generation of Activists and Stakeholders. London and New York: Routledge.

Abstract

Three decades of rapid industrialization until the lifting of martial law in 1987, with little or no concern for the environment, have made Taiwan’s environmental degradation a serious problem. In the past twenty years, Taiwan has seen a surge of environmental organizations, which to a certain degree have enjoyed a remarkable success in fighting polluting industries or affecting policies on behalf of the environment.
This book aims to analyse environmental governance mechanisms and actors in Taiwan through a multi-disciplinary research approach. Based on extensive and original research, it includes four different case studies, which have all taken place since 2011. It focuses on four major elements of governance - specifically norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan’s national and local environmental governance in the post-2008 period. The book shows how the painful lessons Taiwan has learned throughout its transition should be of interest to other developing countries, illustrating how these positive transformations have managed to bring about a more ecologically friendly mode of economic development.
Demonstrating that the battle to further ecological sustainability is also a battle to further democratisation, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Taiwan Studies, Developmental Studies and Environmental Studies.

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Item Type:Monograph
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies
Dewey Decimal Classification:180 Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy
290 Other religions
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > General Social Sciences
Language:English
Date:8 June 2015
Deposited On:20 May 2015 14:31
Last Modified:30 Jan 2022 08:06
Publisher:Routledge
Series Name:Routledge Research on Taiwan
Volume:14
Number of Pages:256
ISBN:978-1-13-883140-7
Additional Information:(Routledge Research on Taiwan Series)
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315736587
Official URL:http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138831407/
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