China’s environmental protection policies and path dependent analysis: in the case of Beijing air pollution control

• Main Authors: Chen, Ping-Cheng, 陳品誠
• Other Authors: Teng, Chung-Chian
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/stx4k9

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國際研究英語碩士學位學程 (IMPIS) === 105 === In the past decade, countries and organizations around the globe have devoted themselves to brought out the important message of sustainable development. Climate change and environmental protection have been two of the core issues to be considered into state’s foreign policy. China has been facing the environmental issues in recent years. In this thesis, it argues that China’s awareness of sustainable development and environmental protection, especially on air pollution problem in Beijing, was gradually flourished as time went by. From ignoring environmental problem and devoting effort on one-sided economic development to positively face and try to solve the air pollution problem, China has gone through its decision-making and mindsets reform. Furthermore, this thesis suggests that the progress of it corresponds with a certainly path. Hence, path dependent analysis would be applied to test whether this kind of path fits air pollution control methods in China and possibly foresee the environmental future of Beijing to be a cleaner and healthier city.