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Subject(s)

• Clean energy—East Asia [Browse]
• Energy transition—East Asia [Browse]
• Sustainable development—East Asia [Browse]

Author

• Kim, Sŏng-yŏng [Browse]
• Mathews, John A. (John Alwyn), 1946- [Browse]
• Tan, Hao [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

Why has East Asia emerged as the global leader in green energy industries but - until recently - lagged on carbon emission reduction? What is new and distinctive about East Asia's approach to the green energy transition? And what does this approach mean for the world? This book provides a comprehensive account of East Asia's green energy shift. It highlights the powerful and symbiotic role of state ambition, geostrategic competition, and capitalist market dynamics in driving forward the region's greening efforts. Through an analysis of the ambitious national strategies of China and South Korea, the authors show how state actors have pursued a distinctively East Asian approach to transforming their energy systems, involving first the rapid creation of new green energy industries and then the coordinated destruction of fossil-fuel incumbencies.

Notes

Also issued in print: 2023.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 23, 2023).

Contents

• cover
• Praise for Developmental Environmentalism
• titlepage
• copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• 1 Cutting through the Conflicting Images of East Asia's Green Energy Shift
• The value-added of developmental environmentalism
• Bringing capitalist materialities back in
• Our argument
• The green energy shift: Northeast Asia vs. the West
• Outline of the book
• 2 Northeast Asia's Performance in the Green Energy Shift: What Does the Data Reveal?
• The creative dynamics of Northeast Asia's green energy shift: What does the data tell us?
• The destructive dynamics in Northeast Asia's green energy shift: What does the data tell us?
• Coal phase-out
• Making sense of the data and moving beyond the macro
• 3 A Novel Analytical Framework
• A note on the importance of nomenclature
• Operationalizing our analytical framework
• Developmental environmentalism (1): Conceptual contours
• Developmental environmentalism as an elite mindset
• Developmental environmentalism as a political legitimation strategy
• Developmental environmentalism as a distinctive policy approach
• Developmental environmentalism (2): Empirical realities
• The emergence of developmental environmentalism in South Korea
• The emergence of developmental environmentalism in China
• Concluding remark
• 4 Creative-Destruction in Korea's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Industry
• The pattern
• The puzzle
• Part One: The developmental origins of Korea's FCEV focus (1988-2008)
• Energy insecurity sparks soul searching about Korea's traditional developmental strategy
• China's rise, a new developmental strategy, and the embrace of economic statecraft.
• Part Two: From developmentalism to developmental environmentalism in Korea's FCEV strategy and creative-destructive misalignment (2008-2015)
• From developmental-environmental ambition to action in the 2008-2015 period
• Creative-destructive misalignment in the 2008-2015 period
• Part Three: Growing creative-destruction alignment (2015-present)
• External shocks and changing market dynamics
• Presidential orientation and ambition
• The emergent role of local governments as creative-destructive allies
• Concluding remarks
• 5 Creative-Destruction in China's Electric Vehicle Industry
• Part One: The developmental origins of China's auto industry focus in the pre-EV era
• Part Two: From developmentalism to developmental environmentalism and the emergence of the EV industry in China (1990s-2008)
• Part Three: The rapid growth of EVs in China and growing creative-destructive misalignment (2008-2017)
• Part Four: Growing creative-destructive alignment (2018-present)
• Changing international environment and the quest for tech-supremacy
• Growing activism of local governments
• 6 Creative-Destruction in Korea's Smart and Strong Grid Strategy
• Part One: The emergence of the state's creative-destructive ambitions and capabilities (2008-2016)
• 2013 Smart Grid Distribution Project
• KEPCO's stronger grid projects: High voltage direct current technologies
• KEPCO's Smart Grid Station project
• Hybridized industrial ecosystems
• Part Two: Misalignment between creative and destructive ambition and action in the 2008-2016 period
• KEPCO as an obstacle to the growth of renewables
• Domestic political impediments to destruction of the fossil fuel energy system and KEPCO's role.
• Part Three: Growing creative-destructive alignment (2017-present)
• The new international competition in green technologies and domestic environmental problems
• The creative and destructive elements of the third Five-Year Plan for Green Growth (2019-2023)
• The Second Five-Year Master Plan for smart grids
• Smart cities: National pilot smart cities
• Destructive ambitions in action: Korea's efforts to phase out coal
• 7 Creative-Destruction in China's Strong and Smart Grid Initiatives: The Shift to Ultra-High Voltage
• China's electrification strategy
• Part One: The developmental origins of China's `strong and smart' grid focus (1990s-2006)
• Part Two: Developmental-environmentalism and the emergent greening of China's electric power grid (2007-2015)
• The shift to a UHV grid
• Executing the UHV strategic shift
• Part Three: Growing creative-destructive alignment (2015-present)
• Creating a hybridized industrial ecosystem for the grid: The building of an electric power equipment industry in China
• The full flowering of creative-destructive alignment: Internationalization of State Grid Corporation of China and the Chinese power industry
• 8 Drivers and Dynamics of Northeast Asia's Green Energy Shift: A Comparative Strategic Analysis
• East Asian approaches to the green energy transition
• Grid hypermodernization
• Greening of transport: The shift to electric vehicles
• Dramatic incursion by Northeast Asian economies: Leapfrogging strategy
• Developmental environmentalism in action
• Aspect One: Developmental environmentalism as mindset and ambition driving the green energy transition
• Aspect Two: Developmental environmentalism as legitimation strategy.
• Aspect Three: Developmental environmentalism as an approach to sequencing the green energy transition
• Concluding remarks: In Northeast Asia, there is no alternative to the green energy transition
• 9 The Global Green Shift in an Era of Geostrategic Rivalry
• Geostrategic rivalry and the global green shift
• Implications of Northeast Asian experience for developing countries
• Lessons for advanced countries
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-192422-9
• 0-19-265252-4
• 0-19-265251-6

OCLC

1376931139

Doi

• 10.1093/oso/9780192897794.001.0001

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