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To understand China s climate change policy is not easy, as the
country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political
economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific
certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory
and firm supporter of the Kyoto Protocol; it stubbornly refuses to
accept any emission cutting obligations, but has gradually taken
the lead in developing renewable energies and carbon trading
business; it accuses western countries of their hypocrisy and
irresponsibility, but ironically maintains close cooperation with
them on low-carbon projects; it fears climate mitigation
commitments may hamper the economic growth, but meanwhile spends
most lavishly on the research and development of clean energy and
other green technologies.
This book, unlike other researches which explain China s climate
policy from pure economics or politics/foreign policy perspectives,
provides a panoramic view over China s climate-related regulations,
laws and policies as well as various government and non-government
actors involved in the climate politics. Through analyzing the
political and socioeconomic factors that influence the world s
largest carbon emitter s participation into the global collective
actions against climate change, the book argues that as a vast
continental state with a mix of authoritarian politics and a
quasi-liberalised market economy, China s climate policy process is
fragmented and self-defensive, seemingly having little room for
significant compromises or changes; yet in response to the mounting
international pressures and energy security concerns and attracted
by lucrative carbon businesses and clean energy market, the regime
shows some sort of better-than-expected flexibility and shrewdness
in coping with the newly-emerged challenges. Its future climate
actions, whether effective or not, are vital not only for the
success of the global mitigation effort, but for China s own
economic restructure and sustainable development.
The book is a unique research monograph on the evolving domestic
and foreign policies taken by the Chinese government to tackle
climate change challenges. It concludes that instead of being
motivated by concern about its vulnerability to climate change,
Chinese climate-related policies have been mainly driven by its
intensive attention to energy security, business opportunities
lying in emerging green industries and image consideration in the
global climate politics.
To understand China's climate change policy is not easy, as the
country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political
economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific
certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory
and firm supporter of the Kyoto Protocol; it stubbornly refuses to
accept any emission cutting obligations, but has gradually taken
the lead in developing renewable energies and carbon trading
business; it accuses western countries of their hypocrisy and
irresponsibility, but ironically maintains close cooperation with
them on low-carbon projects; it fears climate mitigation
commitments may hamper the economic growth, but meanwhile spends
most lavishly on the research and development of clean energy and
other green technologies. This book, unlike other researches which
explain China's climate policy from pure economics or
politics/foreign policy perspectives, provides a panoramic view
over China's climate-related regulations, laws and policies as well
as various government and non-government actors involved in the
climate politics. Through analyzing the political and socioeconomic
factors that influence the world's largest carbon emitter's
participation into the global collective actions against climate
change, the book argues that as a vast continental state with a mix
of authoritarian politics and a quasi-liberalised market economy,
China's climate policy process is fragmented and self-defensive,
seemingly having little room for significant compromises or
changes; yet in response to the mounting international pressures
and energy security concerns and attracted by lucrative carbon
businesses and clean energy market, the regime shows some sort of
better-than-expected flexibility and shrewdness in coping with the
newly-emerged challenges. Its future climate actions, whether
effective or not, are vital not only for the success of the global
mitigation effort, but for China's own economic restructure and
sustainable development. The book is a unique research monograph on
the evolving domestic and foreign policies taken by the Chinese
government to tackle climate change challenges. It concludes that
instead of being motivated by concern about its vulnerability to
climate change, Chinese climate-related policies have been mainly
driven by its intensive attention to energy security, business
opportunities lying in emerging green industries and image
consideration in the global climate politics.
This book explores and analyzes influential predictors and the
underlying mechanisms of individual content sharing/retweeting
behavior on social networking sites (SNS) from an empirical
perspective. Since Individual content sharing/ retweeting behavior
expedites information dissemination, it is a critical mechanism of
information diffusion on Twitter. Individual sharing/retweeting
behavior does not appear to happen randomly. So, what factors lead
to individual information dissemination behavior? What are the
dominating predictors? How does the recipient make retweeting
decisions? How do these influential predictors combine and by what
mechanism do they influence an individual's retweeting decisions?
Furthermore, are there any differences in the process of individual
retweeting decisions? If so, what causes such differences? In order
to answer these previously unexplored questions and gain a holistic
view of individual retweeting behavior, the authors examined
people's retweeting history on Twitter and obtained a real dataset
containing more than 60 million Twitter posts. They then employed
text mining and natural language processing techniques to extract
useful information from social media content, and used various
feature selection methods to identify a subset of salient features
that have substantial effects on individual retweeting behavior.
Lastly, they applied the Elaboration Likelihood Model to build an
overarching theoretical framework to reveal the underlying
mechanisms of individual retweeting behavior. Given its scope, this
book will appeal to researchers interested in investigating
information dissemination on social media, as well as to marketers
and administrators who plan to use social networking sites as an
important avenue for information dissemination.
In China's 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural
disaster management has been about not only human combat against
devastating natural forces, but also institutional building,
political struggle, and economic interest redistribution among
different institutional players. A significant payoff for social
scientists studying disasters is that they can reveal much of the
hidden nature of political and economic processes and structures,
particularly those in non-democracies, which are normally covered
up with great care. This book reviews the problems and progress in
the politics of China's disaster management. It analyses the
factors in China's governance and political process that restrains
its capacity to manage disasters. The book helps the audience
better understand the dynamic relationship among various interest
groups and civic forces in modern China's disaster politics, with
special emphasis on the process of pluralization, decentralization
and fragmentation.
This book explores and analyzes influential predictors and the
underlying mechanisms of individual content sharing/retweeting
behavior on social networking sites (SNS) from an empirical
perspective. Since Individual content sharing/ retweeting behavior
expedites information dissemination, it is a critical mechanism of
information diffusion on Twitter. Individual sharing/retweeting
behavior does not appear to happen randomly. So, what factors lead
to individual information dissemination behavior? What are the
dominating predictors? How does the recipient make retweeting
decisions? How do these influential predictors combine and by what
mechanism do they influence an individual's retweeting decisions?
Furthermore, are there any differences in the process of individual
retweeting decisions? If so, what causes such differences? In order
to answer these previously unexplored questions and gain a holistic
view of individual retweeting behavior, the authors examined
people's retweeting history on Twitter and obtained a real dataset
containing more than 60 million Twitter posts. They then employed
text mining and natural language processing techniques to extract
useful information from social media content, and used various
feature selection methods to identify a subset of salient features
that have substantial effects on individual retweeting behavior.
Lastly, they applied the Elaboration Likelihood Model to build an
overarching theoretical framework to reveal the underlying
mechanisms of individual retweeting behavior. Given its scope, this
book will appeal to researchers interested in investigating
information dissemination on social media, as well as to marketers
and administrators who plan to use social networking sites as an
important avenue for information dissemination.
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Embedded Systems Technology - 15th National Conference, ESTC 2017, Shenyang, China, November 17-19, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Yuanguo Bi, Gang Chen, Qingxu Deng, Yi Wang
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R1,557
Discovery Miles 15 570
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th National
Conference on Embedded Systems Technology, ESTC 2017, held in
Shenyang, China, in November 2017. The 18 revised full papers
presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 papers. The
topics cover a broad range of fields focusing on the theme
"embedded systems and intelligent computing," such as context aware
computing, scheduling, cyber physical system, high performance
embedded computing, embedded system and applications, and education
and surveys.
Bring back the loving feeling and you will fall in love again This
book is a collection of beautiful loves songs, describing feelings
at different stages of love. The songs are very touching and
enjoyable. The melodies are beautiful and you'll love them. The
lyrics are based on true feelings and will touch your heart. The
book includes the sheet music and lyrics in both English and
Chinese for Album No. 1 of the Love Songs by Gang Chen Series,
entitled Your Eyes Have Told Me Everything. It includes the
following songs: 1.A Naughty Girl 2.Circle of Love 3.The Past Has
Become a Beautiful Memory 4.Is This Love? 5.Do You Really Love Me?
6.Your Eyes Have Told Me Everything 7.Swing 8.I Want It All as I
Have Told You There are four versions of these songs: 1.English
version (Full English vocal with background music) 2.Instrumental
version (Musical instrument simulating the human voice) 3.Karaoke
version (Background music track for Karaoke singing or sing along)
4.Chinese version (Full Chinese vocal with background music) See
Music.ArchiteG.com for all albums and singles published by
ArchiteG, Inc. See GreenExamEducation.com for all books published
by ArchiteG, Inc.
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