Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
For nearly five decades’ rapid modernization, the neoliberal developmental experiences and models have stood out as an impressive example for many other countries to imitate. However, with the drive for those neoliberal modernization projects, governments, firms, and people have been facing great challenges in sustainable development as a result of growing interaction between human activities and natural environment. To meet the challenges, the world must not only learn profound lessons from its historical experiences but also search for cooperative assistance from the global, regional, national, and local governance mechanisms. This course attempts to address key questions about some important environmental issue-areas by looking at historical development of environmental protection and current environmental policies and activities for better environmental governance mechanisms in the world.
能力項目說明
After successful completing this course, students should be able: (1) to provide building-blocks of both knowledge and theory about the environmental challenges, including the government, market/business, and social systems, in which the challenges are set; (2) to learn how to translate between local and the global environmental governance systems – that is, to learn how the same concepts may have different meanings in the local and in the global, and to learn how to find the clues needed for practical translation between the two for better environmental governance.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
|---|---|---|
Week 1 – 2/19 – Class Topic I: Course Introduction: discussion of course aims and content
Class Topic II: Moodle Introduction
Class Topic III: Assignment of weekly reading rotation
Week 2 – 2/26 – Class Topic: Theoretical Foundations in Environmental Politics
Required reading:
Lipschutz, Ronnie D. 2001. “Environmental History, Political Economy and Change: Frameworks and Tools for Research and Analysis.” Global Environmental Politics 1, no. 3: 72-91.（）
Kutting, Gabriela. 2004. Globalization and Environment. Chapter 1. Albany: SUNY Press. 3-22.（）
O’Brien, Robert, and Marc Williams, Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 2nd Edition), Chapters 11, 332-362.（）
Week 3 – 3/04– Class Topic: Scale Governance on Environment
Required reading:
Reed, Maureen G. and Shannon Bruyneel. 2010. “Rescaling Environmental Governance, Rethinking the State: A Three-dimensional Review.” Progress in Human Geography 34, no. 5: 646-653.（）
Bulkeley, Harriet. 2005. “Reconfiguring Environmental Governance: toward a Politics of Scale and Networks.” Political Geography 24, no. 8: 875-902.（）
Bai, Xuemei. 2007. “Integrating Global Environmental Concerns into Urban Management - The Scale and Readiness Arguments.” Journal of Industrial Ecology 11, no. 2: 15-29.（）
Week 4 – 3/11 – Class Topic: Global Environmental Issues
Required reading:
Cann, Cynthia W., Michael C. Cann, and Gao Shangquan. 2005. “China’s Road to Sustainable Development: An Overview.” In China’s Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, ed. Kristen A. Day. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Pp. 3-34.（）
Economy, Elizabeth. 2005. “Environment Enforcement in China.” In China’s Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, ed. Kristen A. Day. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Pp. 102-120.（）
Zusman, Eric and Jennifer L. Turner. 2005. “Beyond the Bureaucracy: Changing China’s Policymaking Environment.” In China’s Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, ed. Kristen A. Day. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Pp. 121-149.（）
Week 5 – 3/18 – Class Topic: Historical Background for Analysis
Required reading:
Elvin, Mark. 2000. “The Environmental Legacy of Imperial China.” In Managing the Chinese Environment, ed., Richard Louis Edmonds. NY: Oxford University Press. Pp. 9-32.（）
Shapiro, Judith. 2001. Mao’s War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China. NY: Cambridge University Press. Introduction. Pp. 1-19.（）
Lin, Scott Y. 2017. “State Capitalism and Chinese Food Security Governance.” Japanese Journal of Political Science 18, no. 1 (March): 106-138.（）
Week 6 – 3/25 – Class Topic: Global Environmental Regimes
Required reading:
Ross, Lester. 2000. “China: Environmental Protection, Domestic Policy Trends, Patterns of Participation in Regimes and Compliance with International Norms.” In Managing the Chinese Environment, ed. Richard Louis Edmonds. NY: Oxford University Press. Pp. 85-111.（）
Yu, Hongyuan. 2008. Global Warming and China’s Environmental Diplomacy. New York, NY: Nova Science Publishing. Chapter 3-4. Pp.37-62.（）
Lin, Scott Y. 2022. “China’s Food Security Governance from a Hydraulic Society to a Corporate Food Regime and COVID-19.” Issues and Studies 58, no. 4 (Decmmber): 1-19.（）
Week 7 – 4/01 – Class Topic: International Aid for Environment Governance
Required reading:
Woods, Ngaire. 2008. “Whose Aid? Whose Influence? China, Emerging Donors and the Silent Revolution in Development Assistance.” International Affairs 84, no. 6 (November): 1205-1221.（）
Morton, Katherine. 2005. International Aid and China’s Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon. New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 4: Managing the Environment with a Human Face: the UNDP Approach. Pp. 85-119.（）
Morton, Katherine. 2005. International Aid and China’s Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon. New York, NY: Routledge. Chapter 5: Creating Incentives and Institutions: the World Bank Approach. Pp. 120-157.（）
Week 8 – 4/08 – Class Topic: Governmental Governance Mechanisms
Required reading:
Child, John, Yuan Lu, and Terence Tsai. 2007. “Institutional Entrepreneurship in Building an Environmental Protection System for the People’s Republic of China.” Organization Studies 28, no. 7: 1013-1034.（）
Chen, Gang. 2009. Politics of China’s Environmental Protection. Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific. Publishing Co. Pp. 16-40.（）
Lin, Scott Y. 2021. “Bringing Resource Management back into the Environmental Governance Agenda: Eco-State Restructuring in China.” Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23, no. 8 (August): 12272-12301.（）
Week 9 – 4/15 – Class Topic: No Class (Mid-term exam week)
Submission of your term paper proposal due by 11:59PM of Friday, 4/12, 2024.
Week 10 – 4/22 – Class Topic: Environmental Governance in/for Rural Areas
Required reading:
Tilt, Bryan. 2009. The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Chapter 1: 1-20.（）
Tilt, Bryan. 2009. The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Chapter 6: 108-126.（）
Tilt, Bryan. 2009. The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Chapter 7: 127-150.（）
Week 11 – 4/29– Class Topic: Environmental Governance in/for Urban Areas
Required reading:
Zhao, Jingzhu. 2011. Towards Sustainable Cities in China: Analysis and Assessment of Some Chinese Cities in 2008. New York, NY: Springer. Chapter 1: 1-13; Chapter 2: 15-36.（）
Qi, Ye, Li Ma , Huanbo Zhang, and Huimin Li. 2008 “Translating a Global Issue into Local Priority – China’s Local Government Response to Climate Change.” The Journal of Environment & Development 17, no. 4 (December): 379-400.（）
Lin, Scott Y. 2023. “Restoring the State back to Food Regime Theory: China’s Agribusiness and the Global Soybean Commodity Chain.” Journal of Contemporary Asia, 53, no. 2 (March): 288-310.（）
Week 12 – 5/06 – Class Topic: Environmental Civil Society
Required reading:
van Rooij, Benjamin. 2010. “The People vs. Pollution: Understanding Citizen Action against Pollution in China.” Journal of Contemporary China 19, no. 63: 55-77.（）
Lin, Scott Y., and Jiawei Zeng. 2023. “Ant Forest—China’s Low-carbon Consumption Practices Driven by a Community Currency Mechanism.” International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development, advance online publication. Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJESD.2022.10045305.（）
Ru, Jiang and Leonard Ortolano. 2009. “Development of Citizen-Organized Environmental NGOs in China.” Voluntas 20: 141-168.（）
Week 13 – 5/13 – Class Topic: Energy (Air)
Required reading:
Zhang, Na, Noam Lior, and Hongguang Jin. 2011. “The Energy Situation and Its Sustainable Development Strategy in China.” Energy 36, no. 6: 3639-3649.（）
Aden, Nathaniel T. and Jonathan E. Sinton. 2006. “Environmental Implications of Energy Policy in China.” Environmental Politics 15, no. 2: 248-270.（）
Zhou, Yun. 2010. “Why is China Going Nuclear?” Energy Policy 38, no. 7: 3755-3762.（）
Week 14 – 5/20 – Class Topic: Water
Required reading:
Brown, Philip H, Darrin Magee, and Yilin Xu. 2008. “Socioeconomic Vulnerability in China’s Hydropower Development.” China Economic Review 19: 614-627.（）
Clarke-Sather, Afton. 2012. “State Development and the Rescaling of Agricultural Hydrosocial Governance in Semi-arid Northwest China.” Water Alternatives 5, no. 1: 98-118.（）
Lin, Scott Y. 2013. “Growing Global Civil Society Complements Global Environmental Governance: Lessons learned from the Issue of the Lancang/Mekong Dam Projects.” Issues and Studies 49, no. 4 (December): 141-188.（）
Week 15 – 5/27 – Class Topic: Food and Land
Required reading:
Bräutigam, Deborah, and Haisen Zhang. 2013. “Green Dreams: Myth and Reality in China’s Agricultural Investment in Africa.” Third World Quarterly 34, no. 9 (November): 1676-1696.（）
Lin, Scott Y. 2017. “The Evolution of Food Security Governance and Food Sovereignty Movement in China: An Analysis from the World Society Theory.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 30, no. 5 (October): 667-695. （）
Lin, Scott Y. 2015. “From Self-Sufficiency to Self-Supporting: China’s Food Security under Overseas Farmland Investment and International Norms.” Issues and Studies 51, no. 3 (September): 89-129.（）
Week 16 – 6/03 – Class Topic: Environmental Governance Forum
參訪規劃中：
Week 17 – 6/10 – Class Topic: No Class (The Dragon Boat Festival)
Week 18 – 6/17 – Class Topic: Submit your term paper
Write your term paper carefully. Submit your term paper due by 11:59PM of Friday, 6/21, 2024.
Course grades will be based on six components which also are student requirements on the course:
This includes your attendance and participation in discussions of class readings. Students are expected to do all the required weekly readings, attend the class on time, and take an active role in discussing the readings.
While class participation is required, in a university seminar course, each graduate student is expected to be rotated as a chair for discussion of an assigned reading for 30 minutes or so. In other words, three students are appointed for every week and you will be rotated/appointed accordingly. These three discussion chairs are encouraged, not required though, to organize a panel for better discussion and comparison of the three assignments. As a discussion chair, you must read your assigned reading very carefully and give the class a constructive review of the reading. Rotation of each reading will start from Week 2.
Each student in each week (except Week 1, Week 3, Week 8, Week 9, and Week 18) is required to write a short essay (in Chinese or English) based on the three weekly readings. The weekly short essays must include your critical comments on each reading in academic writing within a one-page MS Word document. These essays are due at 11:59PM of each Friday. Essays turned in after the due time will not be counted.
Students are required to write a term paper (in Chinese or English), which should not normally exceed 12,000 words in Chinese or 7,000 words in English. The term paper should be submitted in academic writing in a MS Word document and due in week 18 (by 11:59PM of Friday, 06/16, 2024). The title for the term paper must be related to the class topics of Week 2 to Week 17, given below. The term paper must demonstrate an understanding of the Chinese environmental issue(s) raised in the class, adopt the theory introduced in the discussion, make reference to the readings set for the topic(s), and provide some environmental governance evidence(s) of China.
Your term paper proposal, ideally including the title, abstract, and outline within a one-page MS Word document, is scheduled to be submitted by 11:59PM of Friday, 04/07, 2024. Hereafter, you are encouraged to use my office hours for a consultation on your term paper before submitting your term paper.
Your short critical essays, term paper, and appointed discussion notes must be uploaded to:
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