Non-state Actors in China and Global Environmental Governance

This book is the first effort to develop a broad and deep perspective on the emerging space occupied by “non-state actors” in China in the context of global environmental governance.  It will serve as a primer both for scholars seeking to understand China’s environmental governance system and for practitioners working with policymakers and administrators within that system. Individual chapters explore what works in achieving social change, domestically as well as globally, and will provide guidance to activists and directors of NGOs as well as scholars.

Part one.- Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: The State, Nonstate Actors, and China’s Environmental Performance: Setting the Stage.- Chapter Three: The Landscape of Nonstate Actors and China Environmental Governance: Illustrative Roadmaps to Processes and Institutions.- Part two.- Chapter Four: The Governance Effect of Environmental CSR Reporting in China: State and Non-State Facilitation.- Chapter Five: Will China Industrial Organizations Succeed in Addressing the “Trust Deficit” Arising from Global Supply Chain Governance?.- Chapter Six: Extending Enforcement: How the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs Leverages Public Information to Strengthen Environmental Governance.- Part three.-Chapter Seven: Water Stewardship: Engaging Business, Civil Society and Government in Collaborative Solutions to China’s Freshwater Challenges.- Chapter Eight: Non-Industry and Nonstate Actors Contribution in the Standard Drafting Process:Examples from the Development of China Room Air Conditioner Standards.- Chapter Nine: In the Shadow of the State: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Private Certification in China’s Seafood Sector.- Chapter Ten: Green Supply Chain Initiatives in China: The Roles of Nonstate Actors.

Dan Guttman is a lawyer and former public servant who has devoted his career to issues of public policy. Since arriving in China as a Fulbright scholar in 2004, he has taught and developed comparative China/western governance courses and programs at Shanghai Jiao Tong, Peking, Tianjin, Tsinghua, and Fudan Universities and taught at Duke Kunshan University and New York University Shanghai. 

Yijia Jing is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, and Professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University.

Oran Young is professor emeritus and co-director of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara.