Suchergebnisse

Transnational travel as health insurance -- Health challenges for refugees and conflict-induced migrants : transit conditions, camps, and settlements -- Health challenges for other survival migrants on the move north : transit conditions and detention centers -- Migrant health in northern reception countries -- Migration, health, and sustainable-development linkages : exploring southern contexts -- Pathogens without borders : ERIDS as privilege leveler? -- Climate change, health, and migration : the wild card in the deck -- Where should we "move" from here? : 21st century global-health education and service

This book relates social constraints and opportunities to micro-level exile decision making. It focuses on Cuban, Indo-Chinese, Ethiopian, Eritrean and Iranian exile communities in the United States. The book analyzes the origins of these large groups of exiles and their treatment under US policy.

1. China's position in climate futures : contributions, consequences, and responsibilities -- 2. Framework for analysis of contemporary climate-change governance -- 3. China's national climate change context : top-down governance, policies, and constraints -- 4. Bottom-up opportunities, initiatives, and constraints -- 5. Subnational framing of climate-stabilization initiatives -- 6. Current collaborations and promising opportunities : internal and transnational -- 7. The local power of diaspora connections -- 8. Conclusion : bottoms up?

"China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own population and for people living around the world. Assessments of China's climatic-system consequences, impact, and responsibilities need to take into account the strengths, weaknesses, and potential of subnational governments, non-governmental organizations, transnational non-state connections, and the urban populace in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. A multitude of recent local initiatives that have engaged subnational China in actions that mitigate emissions can be enhanced by powerful framings that appeal to citizen concerns about air pollution and health conditions. China Confronts Climate Change offers the first fully comprehensive account of China's response to climate change, based on engagement with the global climate governance literature and current debates over responsibility along with specific insights into the Chinese context. Responsible implementation of any overarching climate agreement depends on expanding China's subnational contributions. To remain fully informed about GHG-emissions mitigation, China watchers and climate-change monitors need to pay close attention to bottom-up developments. The book provides a valuable contemporary resource for students, scholars, and policy leaders at all levels of governance who are concerned with climate change, environmental politics, and sustainable urban development"--Provided by publisher.

At present, progress in mitigating global GHG emissions is impeded by political stalemate at the national level in the United States and the People's Republic of China. Through the conceptual lenses of multilevel governance and framing politics, the article analyzes emerging policy initiatives among subnational governments in both countries. Effective subnational emission-mitigating action requires framing climatic-stabilization policies in terms of local co-benefits associated with environmental protection, health promotion, and economic advantage. In an impressive group of US states and cities, and increasingly at the local level in China, public concerns about air pollution, consumption and waste management, traffic congestion, health threats, the ability to attract tourists, and/or diminishing resources are legitimizing policy developments that carry the co-benefit of controlling GHG emissions. A co-benefits framing strategy that links individual and community concerns for morbidity, mortality, stress reduction, and healthy human development for all with GHG-emission limitation/reduction is especially likely to resonate powerfully at the subnational level throughout China and the United States.