CHESS Workshop 2016 - The Panels

Panel 1 NON-STATE ACTORS AND AGENCY

Chair: Benjamin Steuer

Emina Popovic
China’s advocacy groups’ influence on decision-making in environmental policy issues

Jan Philipp Laurinat
Green university development in China – student perceptions of sustainability-related initiatives at Peking University

Eva Ignatuschtschenko
Informal e-waste sector in China and challenges that impede the effective integration of the informal into the formal system

Liang-Yu Chen
The role of experts in China’s local climate change governance: A case study of Guangdong Province

Panel 2 STATE ACTORS AND RESPONSIVENESS

Chair: Sabrina Habich

Yanzhu Zhang
Mind the gap: Balancing growth and water security in China promoting water quality trade in China

Benjamin Steuer
Is China’s regulatory system on urban household waste collection effective? An evidence based analysis on the evolution of formal rules and informal practices

Yongdong Shen & Anna Lisa Ahlers
Consultative Authoritarianism at the Grassroots? Facilitating Industrial Air Pollution Control in China by Staging "Triangular Talks"

Iza Yue Ding
Responding to environmental challenges: Symbolic performance in China’s local governance

Panel 3 URBAN STUDIES

Chair: Anna Holzmann

Julia Aristova
Local government as entrepreneur: rollout of low carbon technology in China

Nele Fabian
Refuse as a Resource? 20th Century Urban Development and Historical Strategies of Waste Management in Hong Kong and Shanghai

Tia Kansara
Community and barefoot architecture in China: Community development initiatives in the Ju’er Hutong neighbourhoods

Panel 4 FILM AND REPRESENATION

Chair: Julia Marinaccio, Thomas Immervoll

Yongchen Wang
Film screening

Kiu-wai Chu
When Ecocinema Meets Environmental Governance