Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

relaxed regulations or implemented them more loosely.^57 Hsiao calls this an ‘opportunist strategy of exit’, which he compares t ...

Indications of the motivations driving Taiwanese firms to mainland China come from several sources. For example, some two-thirds ...

the government to renegotiate terms with his group on a proposed petrochemical complex in Taiwan. This US$2.2 billion project ha ...

standards and corrupt state-business relations.^67 A serious state-society confrontation arose from the seventh naphtha cracker ...

In addition, pollution generated by Taiwanese companies has also led to protests and even social unrest in some localities. The ...

hand, by deals struck with governments, multinationals may occasionally degrade environmental conditions. The activities of the ...

See Yang, Dali L. (2003), ‘China in 2002’, Asian Survey, XLIII(1) (January/February), 34. Lin Yi-min and Tian Zhu (2001), ‘Owne ...

For adumbrations of this model, see Gereffi, Gary and Donald L. Wyman (1990), Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrializatio ...

For an evaluation of the project, see Ping Zuo, Shu Wen Wan, Pei Qin, Jinjin Du and Hui Wang (2004), ‘A comparison of the susta ...

ENGOs, civil society and biodiversity conservation 1 Preceding chapters have discussed the institutional framework and operati ...

supra-national institutions emerge and begin to undermine the traditional role of the nation-state in environmental policy makin ...

significant differences between the ENGO portfolios of the two states, and the contribution they make to the development of civi ...

greater attention to ensuring balance in national policy among economic development, environmental protection, and social justic ...

activities, grassroots activities dominated the movement. Huang Fuxin, who is President of the Association for Promotion of the ...

ENGOs adopted a dual strategy of mass movement and peaceful advocacy of environmental protection ideas. During Huang Mingqin’s t ...

governmental branches require professional knowledge. For instance, to comprehend the EIA report, you need to have professional ...

‘In general, the DPP is more pro-environment than the KMT. However, ever since the DPP became the ruling party in 2000, the situ ...

For instance, Wetlands Taiwan calls itself a ‘functional’ environmental NGO, focusing mainly on wetlands habitat issues. Other i ...

In the Binnan case, publicity about the plight of the black-faced spoonbill played a key role in stopping the development projec ...

environmental protection policies, ENGOs have begun to establish international networks of environmental protection. For example ...