Chinas Transition on Climate Change Communication and Governance: From Zero to [Paperback]

This book provides a two-level analytical framework and empirical study to analyze the reason and process of Chinas transition that is from a follower to driver in the field of global climate governance, and is especially valuable the dialogues and cooperation between the government, media and civil society. Nowadays, China shows strong leadership to push the process of global climate governance. Its the first and fastest time in the past 40-year history of Chinas Opening-up that China wins the international respect and trust in one of the issues of global governance. What experiences can be summarized? What dynamic situations and new possibilities emerged after Trump, the U.S. president announced to withdraw from the Paris Agreement? How to move forward based on the existing success? This timely book offers new lens for international readers to understand Chinas effort domestically and internationally in the field of climate change and illustrate the outlook of the climate governance in the frame of win-win co-governance model. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION.- CHAPTER 2 CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION.- CHAPTER 3 TWO-LEVEL GAMES OF CHINA.- CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS OF STAKEHOLDERS (2009-2015).- CHAPTER 5 EMPIRICAL STUDY: TWO-LEVEL TRACKING ANALYSIS OF THREE MAJOR STAKEHOLDERS (2009-2015).- CHAPTER 6 CHINA'S CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION AND GOVERNANCE IN THE POST-PARIS ERA.- CHAPTER 7 NEW STAGE OF DUAL TRANSITION (2015-2018).- CHAPTER 8 CONCLUSIONS & OUTLOOKS.   Dr. Binbin Wang has devoted her career to leadership on achieving sustainable development goals, bringing decades of expertise and experience in the synergistic effect between climate change and other SDGs, i.e. poverty alleviation, biodiversity, economic development and social justice, etc. Dr. Wang is currently Executive Secretary of Global Climate Change and Green Development Fund, an initiative from Mr. XIE Zhenhua, Chinas Special Representative on Climate Change Aflóe