China Goes Green : Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Rise of Authoritarian Environmentalism

Ecological Civilization as Political Philosophy

A Global Call to Action

What is State-led Environmentalism?

Authoritarianism in Green Clothing

Towards Mutually Agreed-upon Coercion

1 Asserting “Green” Control: The State and its Subjects

Campaigns and Crackdowns

Environmental Campaigns

Justifications and Risks

Target-setting

Targets Gone Awry

Behavior Modification

Environmentalism at a Price

Notes

2 “Green” China Pacifies its Borders

One-size-fits-all Policymaking

Afforestation by Monoculture

The Loess Plateau as an Unscalable Success

The Industrialized Forest of Uxin Banner

Green Grabbing: Hydropower as Ecological Civilization and Modernization

Green Grabbing as a Tool of Government Control

Citizen Resistance: The Nu River and Tiger Leaping Gorge

Ecological Migration: Sedentarizing Nomads and Building Parks

Protected Areas and National Parks

Pacifying Borderlands in the Name of the Environment

3 The State on the “Green” Belt and Road

The Belt and Road Initiative and the Environment

Win-win Green Development

The Quest for Soft Power

Green Technocracy

A Morass of Contradictions

4 Global China Goes “Green”

Mastering the Trade Game

Banning Global Waste Imports

Withholding Rare Earths

Curbing the Endangered Species Trade

Engineering China’s Atmosphere

Blue Skies or Bust

Constructing “Sky River”: Weather Modification on the Tibetan Plateau

Outer Space Environmentalism: The Digital Belt and Road

Geoengineering the Earth’s Climate

Mining the Moon

The Sleeping Lion Awakes

5 Environmental Authoritarianism on a Troubled Planet

Environmental Fix

Authoritarian Resilience

Techno-political Underpinnings

Transactional Logic

Indispensable Civil Society

Consultation under State Leadership

References

Index