Session A
Course Title: S023 China’s Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Policies
Duration: 2021.7.8-2021.7.23 (2 weeks)
Campus: Xuhui
Course Description
This course explores the challenges associated with climate change, energy, and environmental policies from multiple perspectives, disciplines, and scales. It provides an in-depth insight into what happened across the globe and particularly in China after Trump retreated from the Paris Agreement. Students will be trained to examine the evolving science and policy of climate change, tussles among big global emitters regarding commitments and responsibility, and the conflicts between energy giants and interest groups in China. Parallel to that, China’s energy and environmental policies will be scrutinized in the context of global and domestic politics. Through various case studies, students are encouraged to grasp the nature of China’s national development strategies and the risks and challenges the country is facing in implementing its “green policies”. At the same time, students will be expected to apply theories of IPE while conducting analyses.
Highlights
- Understand the interaction between politics and economics, especially in a Chinese context.
- Understand the economic dimension of foreign policy and international politics regarding energy and environmental issues.
- Understand the interaction between mitigation, energy efficiency, and technology innovation.
- Integrate different stakeholder perspectives, disciplines, scales, and geographic contexts in evaluating China’s mitigation efforts, energy, and environmental policies.
- Understand China’s developmental approach and the shift from a GDP-orientation to a more balanced development.
- Develop both oral and written communication skills to facilitate systematic analysis and effective consideration of these complex issues.
Instructors
Prof. Yong GENG
Email:ygeng@sjtu.edu.cn
Prof. Dr. Geng is currently a chair associate of the School of International and Public Affairs at SJTU. He serves as a lead author for both IPCC AR5 and AR6. He is a national consultant for UNIDO. He has published over 240 papers in international journals, including Science, Nature, Nature-Climate Change, Science Advances. His research fields are circular economy, low carbon development policy, environmental management.
Dr. Tingting LU
Email: tingting.lu@sjtu.edu.cn
Tingting Lu joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017. She attained a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the Bartlett School at the University College London. She holds an MSc degree in International Planning and Development at Cardiff University. Her research interest is housing and land development during the suburbanization and regeneration processes in China. She has also participated in researching China’s low carbon city planning and energy transition at UCL. Her academic work has been published in journals such as Urban Studies, Geoforum, and Urban Geography.
Assoc. Prof. Huijuan Dong
Email: donghj@sjtu.edu.cn
Huijuan Dong is an associate professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research is focused mainly on environmental management, industrial ecology & circular economy, and low carbon development in China. Up to now, she has published more than 53 high-quality SCI/SSCI journals with 5 being the ESI (Essential Science Indicators) highly cited papers. She is a principal investigator of two research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC), and a sub-PI of a project funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. She has also been invited as the subject editor and best reviewer of a special issue in the Journal of Resources Conservation & Recycling. She is also an anonymous reviewer for more than 20 famous international SCI journals.
Assessment
Attendance: 30%
Participation in discussion: 20%
Group presentation: 50%
Contact
Program Coordinator: Ms. Sai LI (saili1@sjtu.edu.cn )