Greening China : the benefits of trade and foreign direct investment /

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Author / Creator:	Zeng, Ka, 1973- author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2011]
Description:	1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Michigan studies in international political economy Michigan studies in international political economy.
Subject:	Environmental policy -- China. International trade. Ecology. Environmental policy. International trade. China -- Environmental conditions. China. Electronic resource.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11792157

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Other authors / contributors:	Eastin, Joshua.
ISBN:	0472901192 9780472901197 1283282356 9781283282352 6613282359 9786613282354 0472027107 9780472027101 0472117688 9780472117680
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Open Access English. Print version record.
Summary:	"'The authors make some very critical interventions in this debate and scholars engaged in the environmental pollution haven and race to the bottom debates will need to take the arguments made here seriously, re-evaluating their own preferred theories to respond to the insightful theorizing and empirically rigorous testing that Zeng and Eastin present in the book.' -Ronald Mitchell, University of Oregon. China has earned a reputation for lax environmental standards that allegedly attract corporations more interested in profit than in moral responsibility and, consequently, further negate incentives to raise environmental standards. Surprisingly, Ka Zeng and Joshua Eastin find that international economic integration with nation-states that have stringent environmental regulations facilitates the diffusion of corporate environmental norms and standards to Chinese provinces. At the same time, concerns about 'green' tariffs imposed by importing countries encourage Chinese export-oriented firms to ratchet up their own environmental standards. The authors present systematic quantitative and qualitative analyses and data that not only demonstrate the ways in which external market pressure influences domestic environmental policy but also lend credence to arguments for the ameliorative effect of trade and foreign direct investment on the global environment."--
Other form:	Print version: Zeng, Ka, 1973- Greening China. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011 9780472117680
Standard no.:	9786613282354 10.3998/mpub.2099075

Table of Contents:

Theoretical contentions and analytical approaches
Debunking the "pollution-haven" and "race-to-the-bottom" hypotheses
Environmental pollution and regulation in China
Pollution havens and racing to the bottom : a provincial-level analysis
Do Chinese provinces "trade up" and "invest up"?
How do firms behave? : survey evidence from business executives
Asia Pulp & Paper : local standards, world markets, and environmental protection
Implications, caveats, and future research questions.

Greening China : the benefits of trade and foreign direct investment /

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