Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China And Taiwan

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  1. For adumbrations of this model, see Gereffi, Gary and Donald L. Wyman (1990),
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  2. Chen Dongsheng (1999), Jinuan Chengshi[Money, Power, and City], Taipei: Juliu,
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  3. Hsiao Hsin-huang (1992), ‘The rise of social movement and civil protests’, in Cheng
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  4. Liu Jie (2004), ‘Environmental industry booms’, China Daily, 3 August, p. 10.

  5. American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, Topics, 29 (7) (September), 41.

  6. See Hsiao, H.H. Michael (1994), ‘The character and changes of Taiwan’s local environ-
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    Protection and Industrial Policies(in Chinese), Taipei: Vanguard Publications, p. 44.

  7. Flaherty, M. and A. Rappaport (2002), ‘Corporate environmentalism: from rhetoric to
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    Zed Books, p. 5.

  8. Greer, J. and K. Bruno (1996), Greenwash: The Reality Behind Corporate Environ-
    mentalism, Penang: Third World Network.

  9. Williams, Jack (1992), ‘Environmentalism in Taiwan’, in Dennis F. Simon and Michael Kau
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  10. Business Council for Sustainable Development of the Republic of China (BCSD-Taiwan)
    (2001), Sustainable Care – Road Map to the Green Century, Taipei, p. 30.

  11. Free China Journal (1988), ‘ROC petro-plants closed’, and ‘petro-plants pay off, reopen’,
    17 October, p. 20. Also see Simon Long (1991), Taiwan: China’s Lost Frontier, London:
    Macmillan, p. 201; and Williams (2002), op cit, n. 36, p. 199.

  12. Long (1991), ibid, p. 201.

  13. BCSD-Taiwan (2001), op cit, n. 37, pp. 32–33.

  14. Chong, Florence (1995), ‘Taipei’s grand plan: move local industry up-market in strategic
    alliances’,Asia Today, December.

  15. Suh, Sangwon, and Laurence Eyton (1996), ‘What price economic growth?’, Asiaweek,
    8 November, see http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/96/1108/biz5.html.

  16. ‘Taiwan opposition wants vote on new chemical plant’, the Straits Times, 15 December,
    1997.

  17. Shell Companies in China (2004), Looking to the Long Term: The Story of Shell in China,
    Beijing: External Affairs Department, Shell Companies in China, p. 3.

  18. For a full description, see Mike Seymour, Marilyn Beach, and Steve Lasiter (2005), ‘The
    challenge of positive influence: managing sustainable development on the West-East
    pipeline project’, China Environment Series, issue 7, pp. 1–16.

  19. This section is based on personal interviews with officials of Shell Petroleum, Beijing,
    23 May, 2005.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Op cit, n. 46.

  22. Shell Companies in China (2005), 2004 Sustainable Development Annual Report, Beijing:
    External Affairs Department, Shell Companies in China, p. 21.

  23. Seymour, Mike (2004), ‘Partnerships to support sustainable development and conservation:
    the West-East pipeline project, China’, Conservation Biology, 18 (3) (June), 614.

  24. CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Company Ltd (2005), ‘The CSPC Nanhai
    Petrochemicals Project’ (China), p. 11, and personal interview with Shell official, Beijing,
    23 May, 2005.

  25. One confrontation occurred in mid-1995 when Greenpeace opposed Shell’s efforts to dump
    the Brent Spar oil platform in the North Atlantic. The second concerned Shell Nigeria’s use
    of lower environmental standards in the Delta Region of that country. See Utting (2002),
    pp. 223–30, and A. Rowell (1995), ‘Oil, Shell and Nigeria’, The Ecologist, 25 (6)
    (November/December), 210–13.


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