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Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific This page intentionally left blank Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Editedby IainWatsonand ChandraLalPandey Selection and editorial matter © Thomas S.C. Farrell 2015 Individual chapters © Respective authors 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-49410-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 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Contents ListofFiguresandTables vii NotesonContributors ix Introduction:EnvironmentalSecurityintheAsia-Pacific 1 IainWatsonandChandraLalPandey 1 FragmentedEnvironmentalDiscourseinPeople’s RepublicofChina:Identity,Legitimacy,andLocalAgents 31 HeidiNingKangWang-Kaeding 2 ConsideringFuelSubsidiesasaThresholdInputfor SocialCapitalDevelopment:ConceptualizingOwnership RightsinResourceRichAsianEconomies 67 WillHickey 3 ClimateChangeinSouthAsia:GreenBridgingbetween NepalandIndia 95 ChandraLalPandey 4 GreenGrowthandAsianDonors:FromJapantoKorea 127 IainWatson 5 EnvironmentalSecurityandtheContradictoryPoliticsof NewZealand’sClimateChangePoliciesinthePacific 157 PatrickBarrett,PriyaKurian,andJeanetteWright Conclusion 179 IainWatsonandChandraLalPandey Index 187 This page intentionally left blank Figures and Tables Figures 1.1 ContentAnalysisof WhoisinvolvedintheClimate ChangeReportandtowhatDegree 56 2.1 TheColemanBoat,conceptualized(Coleman,1990) 86 Tables 1.1 Climatechangeprinciplesandconcerns 32 1.2 GreendiscourseevolutioninChina 35 2.1 UsingtheGTZ(GesellschaftfürTechnische Zusammenarbeit,2009)andIEA(2011)studieson developingnationswithfuelsubsidies 76 2.2 ConstitutionalarticlesoffivecountriesandUSstateof Alaskaregardingnaturalresources 83 5.1 AnticipatedimpactsofclimatechangeinNewZealand 164 5.2 Mitigationandadaptionmeasures1994–1999 168 5.3 Summaryofmitigationandadaptationstrategies 1999–2008 169 5.4 Mitigationandadaptationstrategies2008–2012 170 This page intentionally left blank Contributors Patrick Barrett is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Public Pol- icy at the University of Waikato. He is the author or coauthor of three books and a number of journal articles on a variety of public policy topics, such as regional economics, social policy and aging, and new socialmediaandelectionoutcomes.Hismostrecentbook,FamilyCare and Social Capital, was published in 2014. This book examines the increasingimportanceofinformalcareinanagingsociety. Will Hickey is Associate Professor and Technical Advisor, School of GovernmentandPublicPolicy(SGPP),Jakarta,Indonesia.Hehasalso taught International Business at California State University and Uni- versity of Kansas, USA. He was a two-time US Fulbright Professor of HumanResourceManagementandEnergyforCentralAsiaandSouth Asia. He has published extensively in the Harvard JFK Review, Yale Global, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and Asian Develop- mentBankInstituteaboutenergy,humanresources,andCSR(corporate socialresponsibility)issues. Heidi Ning Kang Wang-Kaeding holds a BSSc degree in Govern- ment and International Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University. She graduated in 2012 as a Master majoring in Politics and Commu- nicationfromLondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience,UK. SheiscurrentlyaPhDcandidateandGraduateTeachingAssistantinthe LSE International Relations Department. Her research focuses on the localization of environmentalism in People’s Republic of China. Heidi haspresentedherworkatnumerousinternationalconferences.Shehas recently published a book chapter on NGOs’ role in the EU–China environmental diplomacy in EU-China Green Cooperation and a book reviewintheJournalofTaiwaninComparativePerspective.
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