Taiwan in Net-Zero Transition

An East Asian Perspective on Developmental Environmentalism
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-73052-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

Chou explores the structural dilemmas, mindsets, challenges, and solutions of the net-zero transition in Taiwan. Using Taiwan as a representative example of the structural challenges faced by East Asian countries in achieving the global net-zero carbon emission goal, the book examines the proposition of developmental environmentalism in the context of East Asia.

Taiwan faces diverse challenges, such as internal and external net-zero carbon emission pressures, geopolitical socioeconomic competition, an internal carbon-intensive industrial structure, and the path dependence of the brown economy. Within this framework, the developmental net-zeroism perspective, from the vantage point of developmental environmentalism and the distinctive characteristics of Taiwan, offers insights into the climate governance particularities of East Asian countries as high-carbon manufacturing systems and as part of the global supply chain.

A valuable read for researchers and policymakers concerned about the political, economic, and social situations in Asia and Taiwan affecting the net-zero transition.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chou, Kuei Tien

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1.   Why is Taiwan Delaying the Transition? An East Asian Perspective

2.  Analysis Framework: Reflexive Governance on Developmental Environmentalism

Part I Structural High Carbon Path

3.  Climate Conventions and High Carbon Path

4.  Embedded Distrust: Legacy of Environmental Movements

5.  Competing Socio-Technical Imagination on Energy Transition and Decarbonization

Part II Deadlock of Transition

6.  Weak Socially Robust Knowledge in Net-Zero Transition Movement

7.  Reinforced Carbon Locked-in: Three Missed Opportunities of Carbon Tax

8.  Climate Governance Delayism and its Limited Carbon Pricing

Part III Trigger Net-Zero

9.  Developmental Net-Zeroism

10. Democratic Deliberative Deficit under Developmental Net-Zeroism

11. Boil Frag in Warm Water: Transition Lag and Anxiety of the Enterprises

Conclusion

12. Rethinking Developmental Net-Zeroism in East Asia

Über Autor(innen)

Kuei Tien Chou is Director of the Risk Society and Policy Research Center at National Taiwan University. He conducts research on risk governance, just transition, and net-zero emissions. He has edited books on energy transition, climate change, and air pollution governance in Asia/East Asia.