Climate Of China

Author : Sanna Kopra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351365505

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China and Great Power Responsibility for Climate Change by Sanna Kopra Pdf

As American leadership over climate change declines, China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies. Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities, this book explores how China’s rise to great power status transforms notions of great power responsibility in general and international climate politics in particular. The author looks empirically at the Chinese party-state’s conceptions of state responsibility, discusses the influence of those notions on China’s role in international climate politics, and considers both how China will act out its climate responsibility in the future and the broader implications of these actions. Alongside the argument that the international norm of climate responsibility is an emerging attribute of great power responsibility, Kopra develops a normative framework of great power responsibility to shed new light on the transformations China’s rise will yield and the kind of great power China will prove to be. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, China studies, foreign policy studies, international organizations, international ethics and environmental politics.

Author : Jiacheng Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : China
ISBN : CORNELL:31924050754344

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The Reconstruction of Climate in China for Historical Times by Jiacheng Zhang Pdf

Author : Peter H. Koehn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317375852

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China Confronts Climate Change by Peter H. Koehn Pdf

China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own population and for people living around the world. Assessments of China’s climatic-system consequences, impact, and responsibilities need to take into account the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of subnational governments, non-governmental organizations, transnational non-state connections, and the urban populace in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. A multitude of recent local initiatives that have engaged subnational China in actions that mitigate emissions can be enhanced by powerful framings that appeal to citizen concerns about air pollution and health conditions. China Confronts Climate Change offers the first fully comprehensive account of China’s response to climate change, based on engagement with the global climate governance literature and current debates over responsibility along with specific insights into the Chinese context. Responsible implementation of any overarching climate agreement depends on expanding China’s subnational contributions. To remain fully informed about GHG-emissions mitigation, China watchers and climate-change monitors need to pay close attention to bottom-up developments. The book provides a valuable contemporary resource for students, scholars, and policy leaders at all levels of governance who are concerned with climate change, environmental politics, and sustainable urban development.

Author : Manfred Domrös,Gongbing Peng
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642733338

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The Climate of China by Manfred Domrös,Gongbing Peng Pdf

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949there has been a rapid advance in climatology in China. The number of climatological stations has increased from less than 100 to more than of Chinese climatologists covers various 2,000, and the research work fields. The climate of China is no longer just a description of the average weather for an area or locality, but covers many fields such as the monsoon climate, the fluctuation of climate, the spatial and temporal variations of the climatic elements and physical and dynam ic climate. Four books on the climate of China, written in Chinese, have been published so far. There is, however, no excellent book written in English on the climate of China, although Volume 8 of the World Survey oj Climatology, dealing with the climates of northern and eastern Asia, edited by H. Arakawa in 1969, contains a chapter on the climate of China and Korea written by LE. M. Watts. The data sources for China are based mainly on observations from 1940-1952 and the climatological charts of China published by the Central Weather Bureau of China in 1953 and 1955. This monograph on The Climate ojChina by Prof. Dr. M. Dom ros and Prof. Peng Gongbing is the first comprehensive and advanced book in English on the climate of China.

Author : Olivia Gippner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781788978477

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Creating China’s Climate Change Policy by Olivia Gippner Pdf

Drawing on first hand interview data with experts and government officials, Olivia Gippner develops a new analytical framework to explore the vested interests and policy debates surrounding Chinese climate policy-making.

Author : Jiacheng Zhang,Zhiguang Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006046986

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Climate of China by Jiacheng Zhang,Zhiguang Lin Pdf

Presents a complete treatment regarding the general circulation over China, formation of its climate, climatic variations and delineation of climate regions. Temperature, precipitation, wind and cloud cover are detailed along with such weather phenomena as thunderstorms, fog and hailstorms, especially with respect to their spatial and temporal distributions. Special attention is paid throughout to the geographic factors controlling the climate--latitude, elevation, land, sea, topography, slope orientation, etc. Contains 100 climatological charts based on 20 years of data from over 700 stations.

Author : Angang Hu,Qingyou Guan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351783934

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China: Tackle the Challenge of Global Climate Change by Angang Hu,Qingyou Guan Pdf

Global climate change is one of the challenges ever to confront humanity with the largest scale, widest scope and most far-reaching influence. As the biggest developing country with the largest population, China is the world’s leading consumer of coal and energy, and one of the worst-hit victims of global warming. Consequently, China should assume its responsibility in making contributions to global sustainable development. Based on the principles of fairness and efficiency, this study creatively puts forward two principles of global governance on climate change. The first entails replacement of the two-group schema of developed and developing countries with a four-group model based on the Human Development Index (HDI). The second entails application of the resulting model to specify the major emitters as principal contributors to emission reduction. In addition, it proposes a two-step strategy for China to tackle the issue of climate change. This book makes it clear that China should proactively engage in relevant international cooperation, actively participate in international climate negotiations, make clear commitments to reduce emissions, and assume the obligations of a responsible power to achieve sustainable and green development.

Author : Thomas R. Karl,Neville Nicholls,Anver Ghazi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401592659

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Weather and Climate Extremes by Thomas R. Karl,Neville Nicholls,Anver Ghazi Pdf

Are extreme weather events becoming more common? How do extreme weather events impact society? These are critical questions that must be examined as we confront the possibility that the world will experience a change in climate over the next century. Much of the research in climatology over the past decade has focused on potential changes in long- term averages of temperature, precipitation and other factors. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that changes in average values will be accompanied by changes in extreme events. Furthermore, extreme weather events will impact society to a greater extent as people around the world continue to locate in more hazard-prone areas such as coastal zones. This book represents a major step forwards in developing a comprehensive set of information about changes in extreme events by providing a review of the problems in data availability, quality and analysis that make deriving a clear picture of world-wide changes in extreme events so difficult. Audience: The book is intended for policy-makers, professionals, graduate students and others interested in learning how extreme weather events have changed, and how they impact society both now and in the future.

Author : United States. Army Air Forces. Weather Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$C188114

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Weather and Climate of China by United States. Army Air Forces. Weather Division Pdf

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Committee on Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Attribution
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309380973

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Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Committee on Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Attribution Pdf

As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate models simulate such changes in extreme events, and some of the reasons for the changes are well understood. Warming increases the likelihood of extremely hot days and nights, favors increased atmospheric moisture that may result in more frequent heavy rainfall and snowfall, and leads to evaporation that can exacerbate droughts. Even with evidence of these broad trends, scientists cautioned in the past that individual weather events couldn't be attributed to climate change. Now, with advances in understanding the climate science behind extreme events and the science of extreme event attribution, such blanket statements may not be accurate. The relatively young science of extreme event attribution seeks to tease out the influence of human-cause climate change from other factors, such as natural sources of variability like El Niño, as contributors to individual extreme events. Event attribution can answer questions about how much climate change influenced the probability or intensity of a specific type of weather event. As event attribution capabilities improve, they could help inform choices about assessing and managing risk, and in guiding climate adaptation strategies. This report examines the current state of science of extreme weather attribution, and identifies ways to move the science forward to improve attribution capabilities.

Author : Fan Gang,Nicholas Stern,Ottmar Edenhofer,Xu Shanda,Klas Eklund,Frank Ackerman,Lailai Li,Karl Hallding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134073665

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The Economics of Climate Change in China by Fan Gang,Nicholas Stern,Ottmar Edenhofer,Xu Shanda,Klas Eklund,Frank Ackerman,Lailai Li,Karl Hallding Pdf

China faces many modernization challenges, but perhaps none is more pressing than that posed by climate change. China must find a new economic growth model that is simultaneously environmentally sustainable, can free it from its dependency on fossil fuels, and lift living standards for the majority of its population. But what does such a model look like? And how can China best make the transition from its present macro-economic structure to a low-carbon future? This ground-breaking economic study, led by the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Chinese Economists 50 Forum, brings together leading international thinkers in economics, climate change, and development, to tackle some of the most challenging issues relating to China's low-carbon development. This study maps out a deep carbon reduction scenario and analyzes economic policies that shift carbon use, and shows how China can take strong and decisive action to make deep reductions in carbon emission over the next forty years while maintaining high economic growth and minimizing adverse effects of a low-carbon transition. Moreover, these reductions can be achieved within the finite global carbon budget for greenhouse gas emissions, as determined by the hard constraints of climate science. The authors make the compelling case that a transition to a low-carbon economy is an essential part of China's development and modernization. Such a transformation would also present opportunities for China to improve its energy security and move its economy higher up the international value chain. They argue that even in these difficult economic times, climate change action may present more opportunities than costs. Such a transformation, for China and the rest of the world, will not be easy. But it is possible, necessary and worthwhile to pursue.

Author : Fuzuo Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108420402

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Energy and Climate Policies in China and India by Fuzuo Wu Pdf

Explores the shaping of China and India's energy and climate policies by two-level pressures characterized as wealth, status and asymmetrical interdependence.

Author : Congbin Fu,Zhihong Jiang,Zhaoyong Guan,Jinghai He,Zhong-feng Xu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540792420

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Regional Climate Studies of China by Congbin Fu,Zhihong Jiang,Zhaoyong Guan,Jinghai He,Zhong-feng Xu Pdf

Regional Climate of China is the first volume to present the latest research findings gained over the last decade which has greatly advanced our knowledge of the regional climate researches in China. A distinctive feature of the volume is that it is based on an integration of researches by using the advanced technologies, such as field observation and experiment, satellite information and numerical models in the regional climate studies.

Author : Wang Weiguang,Guoguang Zheng,Jiahua Pan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136345159

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China's Climate Change Policies by Wang Weiguang,Guoguang Zheng,Jiahua Pan Pdf

China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs. Both internationally and within China itself, people have great expectations of its future role. This book aims to clarify many aspects of China’s key position in the climate change situation and policy debates. However, limited by its development stage, natural resource endowment, and other unbalanced developing issues, China is still a developing country. This book shows the reader the real China, which can provide more comprehensive solutions for future global climate regimes. This book includes research into China’s twelfth Five-Year-Plan; low-carbon city pilot schemes; policies and pathways for China’s nationally appropriate mitigation actions; China’s forestry management; China’s NGOs and climate change; the low-carbon 2010 Expo in Shanghai; carbon budget proposals; China’s green economy and green jobs; China’s reaction to carbon tariffs; China’s actions in approaching adaptation; China’s cumulative carbon emissions, and more. China’s Climate Change Policies brings together experienced experts with in-depth understanding of the scientific assessment of climate change and relevant social and economic policies, and senior experts who have participated directly in international climate negotiations. This will help the reader to better understand the 2011 Durban climate change conference, as well as China’s long-term strategy in response to climate change.

Author : Akihisa Mori
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351037563

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China’s Climate-Energy Policy by Akihisa Mori Pdf

China’s recent climate-energy policy, an outcome of contemporary challenges, has generated conflict of interest amongst major stakeholders. Coupled with a boost in demand for oil, gas and coal, as well as a rapid growth in wind and solar power, it has not only affected domestic fossil fuel and renewable energy providers, but has also provoked a resource boom, affecting development pathways internationally. This book therefore seeks to examine the economic, social and ecological effects associated with China’s climate-energy policy. Assessing how the policy has been and will be formulated and implemented, it analyses the changing use of energy, CO2 emissions and GDP, as well as social and environmental impacts both domestically and internationally. It presents in-depth case studies on specific policies in China and on its resource exporting countries, such as Indonesia, Australia, Myanmar and Mongolia. At the same time, using quantitative data, it provides detailed input-output and applied computable general equilibrium analyses. Arguing that China has actively advanced its climate-energy policy to become a leader of global climate governance, it demonstrates that China ultimately relocates the cost of its climate-energy policy to resource exporting countries. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy, the environment and sustainability, as well as Chinese Studies and economics.