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China`s Water Warriors – Citizen Action and Policy Change

Autor Andrew C. Mertha
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 dec 2010
Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water Warriors, Andrew C. Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, societal opposition, and open protest.
Although bargaining has always been present in Chinese politics, more recently the media, nongovernmental organizations, and other activists--actors hitherto denied a seat at the table--have emerged as serious players in the policy-making process. Drawing from extensive field research in some of the most remote parts of Southwest China, China's Water Warriors contains rich narratives of the widespread opposition to dams in Pubugou and Dujiangyan in Sichuan province and the Nu River Project in Yunnan province.
Mertha concludes that the impact and occasional success of such grassroots movements and policy activism signal a marked change in China's domestic politics. He questions democratization as the only, or even the most illuminating, indicator of political liberalization in China, instead offering an informed and hopeful picture of a growing pluralization of the Chinese policy process as exemplified by hydropower politics.
For the 2010 paperback edition, Mertha tests his conclusions against events in China since 2008, including the Olympics, the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and the Uighar and Tibetan protests of 2008 and 2009.
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ISBN-13: 9780801476686
ISBN-10: 0801476682
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: MB – Cornell University Press

Cuprins

Preface1 China's Hydraulic Society?
2 Actors, Interests, and Issues at Stake
3 From Policy Confl ict to Political Showdown: The Failure at Pubugou
4 From Economic Development to Cultural Heritage: Expanding the Sphere at Dujiangyan
5 The Nu River Project and the Middle Ground of Political Pluralization
6 A Kinder, Gentler "Fragmented Authoritarianism"?Index

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Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven and decentralized, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, opposition, and open protest.

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