Conclusion to China's Climate Policy

Alex Y. Lo () and Chen Xiang ()

Chapter 9 in China's Climate Policy, 2025, pp 174-179 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This book concludes that climate change governance in China is undergoing a transition, but progress is confined to policy areas with strategic economic or political importance. China is adopting diverse governance practices that accommodate a limited range of neoliberal, participatory, and decentralizing elements. However, the country has not substantially moved beyond the scope of authoritarian environmentalism. The governance transition process is staged and developmental. The state legitimizes, and sets directions for, the modernization of environmental governance systems, especially in the early stages of transition. Neoliberal, participatory, and decentralizing alternatives are currently emerging from within authoritarian confines, but signs of transformation may present themselves in the later stages of transition.

Keywords: Governance; Transition; Decentralization; Authoritarian environmentalism; Neoliberalization; Collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035341252
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