Perceptions of climate change in China: The research
and policy connection |
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| Authors: | LiHua Zhou J Scott Hauger Ning Liu and HuiLing Lu |
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| Institution: | Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China;Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii 96815, USA;China Development Bank Qinghai Branch, Xining, Qinghai 810001, China;Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China |
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| Abstract: | Global climate change has evolved from a scientific problem into an economic and political problem of worldwide interest.
National perspectives play a crucial role in addressing climate change. Mutual understanding of perspectives is necessary
to result in rational policies and a consensus among stakeholders with divergent interests. Conceptual frameworks
for understanding the problem of climate change in China, the largest developing country and the largest greenhouse gas
emitter, are of great significance to national and international efforts to address the problems of climate change. Chinese
perceptions of climate change as a sustainable development problem have recently been in tension with an emerging
Western perspective that frames climate change as a security issue. This paper explores Chinese perceptions of climate
change as expressed in recent governmental policy statements, public opinion surveys, and academic scholarship with a
focus on publications in Chinese-language journals, often unfamiliar in the West. It looks at the relationship between
Chinese research and policy and finds that the Chinese policy frame of climate change as a sustainable development
problem draws from the body of domestic research and is reflective of the perspectives and multidisciplinary approach of
Chinese researchers in areas of climate change. |
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| Keywords: | China climate change sustainable development climate policy frameworks climate research |
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