Focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyze various cases of air pollution within East Asia.
Air pollution in East Asia is a major health risk, which also has damaging impacts on the environment leading to impacts on society, economic growth, and welfare. While existing laws and policies have made progress in alleviating air pollution in each country in the region, the protection of favorable environments and the resolution of transboundary air pollution problems have become major targets of regional cooperation. Combining perspectives from social sciences and science, technology, and society studies, the contributors to this book examine both the technical and socioeconomic-political aspects of these challenges through a range of case studies from around the region.
The book is a valuable read for researchers and policymakers looking at air pollution and transboundary governance challenges within and beyond East Asia.
List of figures List of tables List of contributors 1 Cosmopolitan governance to transboundary air pollution in East Asia SHU-FEN KAO AND KUEI-TIEN CHOU PART I Air pollution politics in East Asia 2 Politics of air pollution: how fine dust has become a politicized issue in Korea MINJAE KIM AND DOWAN KU 3 The sovereignty of air pollution? The political ecology of particulate matter SANGHUN LEE PART II Regional and transboundary air politics 4 China’s transboundary pollutants and Taiwan’s air politics PAUL JOBIN, SHIH-HAO JHENG AND CHEE WEI YING 5 Asymmetric barriers in atmospheric politics of transboundary air pollution: a case of particulate matter (PM) cooperation between China and South Korea TAEDONG LEE AND WOOYEAL PAIK 6 Atmospheric environment management regime building in East Asia: limitation of imitating the convention on long-range transboundary air pollution and current new development 106 JUSEN ASUKA PART III National air pollution battles 7 Air quality injustice in Taiwan: just transition as the next chapter of environmental governance in post-developmental states KUEI-TIEN CHOU AND DAVID WALTHER 8 Air quality governance in China: authoritarian environmentalism and the coal-to-gas switch campaign CHELSEA C. CHOU, CHIH-SUNG TENG, CHIN-EN WU AND KUAN-CHEN LEE 9 Social history of air pollution in Japan: focusing on the second stage caused by automobiles MANAMI HORIHATA PART IV Contested risk constructions of air pollution 10 The individualization of responsibility for transboundary air pollution in Korea INKYOUNG KIM 11 Science in air pollution politics: school allocation and regulatory control disputes on SNCC, Taiwan WEN-LING TU 12 Rethinking the sources of air pollution and urban policies in Hong Kong PAULINA PY WONG Index
Kuei-Tien Chou is Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University (NTU). Director, Risk Society and Policy Research Center, NTU, Taiwan. Koichi Hasegawa is Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Shokei Gakuin University, Japan. Dowan Ku is Director of Environment and Society Research Institute, South Korea. Shu-Fen Kao is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Fo Guang University, Taiwan.
