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This article discusses the technology policymaking problems associated with the establishment of the Taiwan Biobank. Taiwan, as a late-coming, technology-learning country, is characterized by a hidden and delayed risk culture. In particular, by comparing biotech and industrial policies and GMO (genetically modified organism) risk governance, we can analyze the confrontation involving the state, science experts, and society, which is the result of the authoritarian regime and expert politics that have existed in Taiwan since the Cold War era. We find that none of these factors is conducive to social trust and social support, which are essential for the establishment of a genetic database. This article argues that, in different social and historical contexts, such hidden and delayed risk cultures may have formed in different countries that value technological R&D competition. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1 Cosmopolitan governance to transboundary air pollution in East Asia -- Part I Air pollution politics in East Asia -- 2 Politics of air pollution: how fine dust has become a politicized issue in Korea -- 3 The sovereignty of air pollution? The political ecology of particulate matter -- Part II Regional and transboundary air politics -- 4 China's transboundary pollutants and Taiwan's air politics -- 5 Asymmetric barriers in atmospheric politics of transboundary air pollution: a case of particulate matter (PM) cooperation between China and South Korea -- 6 Atmospheric environment management regime building in East Asia: limitation of imitating the convention on long-range transboundary air pollution and current new development -- Part III National air pollution battles -- 7 Air quality injustice in Taiwan: just transition as the next chapter of environmental governance in post-developmental states -- 8 Air quality governance in China: authoritarian environmentalism and the coal-to-gas switch campaign -- 9 Social history of air pollution in Japan: focusing on the second stage caused by automobiles -- Part IV Contested risk constructions of air pollution -- 10 The individualization of responsibility for transboundary air pollution in Korea -- 11 Science in air pollution politics: school allocation and regulatory control disputes on SNCC, Taiwan -- 12 Rethinking the sources of air pollution and urban policies in Hong Kong -- Index.

"Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably India, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and Thailand are among those most affected by climate change, in terms of economic losses attributed to climate-related disasters. Asia is an extremely diverse region, in terms of the political regimes of its constituent countries, and of their level of development and the nature of their civil societies. As such, its countries are producing a wide range of governance approaches to climate change. Covering the diversity of climate change governance in Asia, this book presents cosmopolitan governance from the perspective of urban and rural communities, local and central governments, state-society relations and international relations. In doing so it offers both a valuable overview of individual Asian countries' approaches to climate change governance, and a series of case studies for finding solutions to climate change challenges"--