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The Global Climate Change Problem From The Perspective Of Eco-politics And China's Strategic Choice

Posted on:2012-06-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C X KouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2131330335973555Subject:International politics
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In recent centuries, with the rapid development of science and technology and the rapid progress of industrial civilization, human beings created the unprecedented economic growth and material wealth, but also brought the unprecedented pressure to earth's ecological environment. Especially after the 1960s, the contradiction between human beings and the nature became acute, and the global ecological crisis was increasingly fierce. Currently, the environmental problem has become an important element of international relations. With the environmental damage seriously, international environmental disputes emerging and the importance of international environmental cooperation growing, the environmental question gradually relates with the national security and the foreign policy. Among these, climate change problem received the international community's intense attention. All the countries are actively seeking strategic measures to address climate change, and strive to gain dominance in the international political gambling. As the focal point of environmental diplomacy, global climate change involves ecological environment, world economic and political and other aspects. We must carry on long-term cooperation on the global scale, and develop extensive international climate negotiations and governance.The aggravating ecological crisis makes many people recognize the dialectical unity relationship between social and natural, thus promotes the initiation of eco-political concept and ecological movement. Eco-politics faces human responsibility in ecological crisis, reconsiders the shortcomings of former human political idea and behavior, forms a new model of value thinking and builds up a new political system. Facing the increasing global warming tendency, climate disasters and climate refugee, we urgently need to change ways of thinking and seek an effective way to solve global climate change problem from the height of eco-politics. Eco-politics Promotes and advocates the respect for nature, the social equity, the authority releases, the sustainable development and global responsibility. These values will have the profound influence and the huge promotion effect not only to the global warming question, but also to all ecology question solution. In global integration's today, China is playing the pivotal role in the global stage, simultaneously is also facing the huge climate diplomatic pressure. As one member of the developing countries, also one of biggest victimized countries for global climate change, China must respond to climate change by a positive posture and join to the global government actions. We urgently need to make long-term strategic considerations, and to develop appropriate strategic planning. For these reasons, this article analysis the current global climate change problem from the perspective of eco-politics, and strive to use the concept of eco-politics to respond to ecological crisis. The opening introduction describes the background and significance of this article, and analyzes the domestic and international research status and research methods to be adopted. The first part describes the global climate change problem, through the in-depth inquiry of its basic concept, cause, cognitive processes, characteristics and impact to call attention to the seriousness and urgency of this problem. The second part mainly discusses how to use the related concept of eco-politics to deal with global warming phenomenon. Eco-politics emerges in the global ecological crisis's aggravating, has the profound connotation and the profound influence. Facing the global climate warming problem, the eco-politics idea initiates the people to set up the global responsibility, to respect the nature, to follow the sustainable development, to pay great attention the environmental protection and the fair justice and so on. The third part relates the Chinese realistic national condition, analyzes the huge pressure which our country faces in the climatic change problem, and gives the strategic proposal in aspects of future low-carbon economy, climate diplomacy, green development and so on.
Keywords/Search Tags:Global Climate Change, Eco-politics, China, Strategic Choice
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