Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- China's role in the global transformation -- Lack of transformation governance research on China -- Does China's governance model facilitate modernization? -- The fundamentals of policy diffusion -- About this book's approach -- 2 Climate governance and policymaking in China -- The Tiao-Kuai system -- Climate policy and ETS in China: from piloting to national policy -- The ETS pilots -- Institutional arrangements for climate policy in China
3 Shanghai's ETS and diffusion experience -- ETS policy developments -- Shanghai's institutional setup -- Policy diffusion mechanisms -- Policy entrepreneurs -- 4 Hubei's ETS and diffusion experience -- ETS policy developments -- Hubei's institutional setup -- Policy diffusion mechanisms -- Policy entrepreneurs -- 5 Conclusion: The role of policy diffusion in China's climate transformation -- Shanghai and Hubei: a comparison of diffusion patterns -- Diffusion mechanisms -- Institutions and actors -- Conceptual implications -- Practical implications -- 6 Recent developments and a view ahead
The influence of national policies and politics -- Progressive regions continue to expand their carbon markets and interact with others -- External influences on new dynamics in China's ETS policy diffusion -- The dawn of a new era -- Appendix -- Index
