China’s Environmental Crisis

1. Introduction: China’s Environmental Crisis—A Global Crisis with Chinese Characteristics: From Confucius to Cell Phones
Joel Jay Kassiola, Sujian Guo

Part I. Current Ecological Conditions and Public Policies in China: Desertification, Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Food Security

2. Desertification in China: Problems with Policies and Perceptions
Hong Jiang

3. Network Public Management and the Challenge of Biodiversity Management in China
Sara R. Jordan

4. Changing Climate? China’s New Interest in Global Climate Change Negotiations
Wei Liang

5. Environmental Degradation and Food Security Policies in China
Jerry McBeath, Jenifer Huang McBeath

Part II. The Formation and Policy Influences of ENGOs (Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations) in China

6. State and Society in China’s Environmental Politics
Björn Alpermann

7. Responding to Climate Disaster: The Cosmopolitan Challenge to China
Paul G. Harris

Part III. Environmentally Caused Social Change in China: New Media Technologies and Traditional Confucian Values Updated

8. Digital Power: Public Participation in an Environmental Controversy
Yanmin Yu, Fanxu Zeng

9. Confucianizing Modernity and “Modernizing” Confucianism: Environmentalism and the Need for a Confucian Positive Argument for Social Change
Joel Jay Kassiola

Avainsanat: Environment, Environmental Politics, Asian Politics, Political Science, International Relations, Political Economy