Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Power, Politics, and China's Environmental Statecraft
Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Studies on Think Asia
ISBN: 978-1-041-42348-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book offers one of the first comprehensive, policy-oriented examinations of the Tibetan Plateau as both a global climate regulator and an emerging geopolitical frontier, providing a holistic framework for understanding one of the world’s least examined, most consequential environmental crises yet.
Bringing together leading international scholars, policy practitioners, and regional experts, this volume argues that Tibet’s environmental transformation cannot be understood solely through the lens of climate change. Instead, it demonstrates how environmental governance, strategic infrastructure, resource extraction, militarization, demographic engineering, and hydro-politics have become integral instruments of China’s broader statecraft, with far-reaching consequences for Asia and the international order. Chapters reveal how the ecological deterioration of the Tibetan Plateau is increasingly intertwined with questions of regional security, water governance, climate diplomacy, and strategic competition. The book explores how developments around the “Third Pole” affect the future of Asia’s major river systems, food and water security, border stability, and the credibility of global climate governance. At its core, the volume contends that Tibet is no longer a peripheral environmental concern, but a central strategic issue with profound implications for the Indo-Pacific and beyond.
Bridging a major gap in contemporary scholarship and policy debate, this book serves as an indispensable resource for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of environmental politics, security studies, and East Asian studies. Policymakers, strategic planners, and climate negotiators exploring how environmental change on the Tibetan Plateau is reshaping geopolitics, regional security, and the future of global climate governance will also benefit.
Zielgruppe
Academic and Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: Tibet and the Global Climate Imbalance
SECTION I: Framing Tibet’s Climate Crisis
Chapter 1. Chinese International Relations Theory and Environmental Governance in Tibet: Statecraft and Sustainability
Chapter 2. China’s Environmental and Economic Strategies in Tibet: Growth or Conflict?
Chapter 3. Environmental Science, State Power, and the Tibetan Plateau: What China Leaves Unsaid
SECTION II: Geography and the Hydro-Geopolitics of the Plateau
Chapter 4. China’s New Ethnic Law, Demographic Engineering, and Climate Politics
Chapter 5. Competing Narratives on Tibet’s Transboundary Water Resources: From the “Project of the Century” to the “Water Bomb”
SECTION III: Resource Extraction and the Environmental Costs of Development
Chapter 6. Melting Permafrost in Tibet: China’s Overlooked Climate Crisis
Chapter 7. Evaluating China’s Mining Practices in Tibet: Europe Looks East
Chapter 8. China’s Great Tibetan Mineral Grab and India’s Strategic Nightmare: Black Gold Under Red Flags
SECTION IV: Militarization and Displacement
Chapter 9. Militarization of Tibet and its Environmental Impact
Chapter 10. The Environmental Stakes of China’s Technological and Military Modernization in Tibet
Chapter 11. Human and Environmental Costs of China’s Tibet Policy: Displacement and Dispossession
Chapter 12. Examining Urbanization and Connectivity Policy in TAR
SECTION V: Global Accountability and Climate Justice
Chapter 13. The United Nations, the Third Pole, and Tibet’s Climate Emergency
Chapter 14. Conclusion: China’s Climate Commitments, Tibet and UNFCCC Accountability: The Tibetan Paradox
