Joanna I. Lewis
Now out in paperback! Published January 2015
Columbia University Press, © 2013, ©2015
The story of China’s rapid rise in the global wind power industry provides valuable insight into the country’s domestic energy strategies and global positioning, and into the evolving nature of technology transfer and diffusion around the world. China is beginning to serve as a center for global technological innovation, and green innovation from China could play a crucial role in the global transition to a low-carbon economy. China’s wind industry not only provides a compelling example of technological leapfrogging, it also demonstrates new models of technology transfer and knowledge across borders. Given global concern about the impact of China’s rapidly increasing energy needs on global supplies and its ability almost singlehandedly to change the global climate system, it is worthwhile to understand how and why Beijing has embraced green innovation.
Reviews
“Green Innovation in China is a compelling exploration of how China is transforming itself into a clean energy powerhouse. This is a book that should be on the desk or nightstand of anyone who wants to understand where China’s leaders are taking their country and how they plan to get there.”
— Elizabeth Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
“Because there is no more important issue to future generations than climate change and no more important country in the effort to control greenhouse gas emissions than China, Joanna Lewis’s book on wind power in the PRC is particularly timely and welcome. Thoroughly researched and well-written, this informative volume goes a long way to helping us understand the critical role China plays in both the causes for and solutions to the global climate change challenge.”
— Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
“The book gives an excellent overview of China’s green innovation system. The book will largely help readers in and out of China better understand the context and nature of China’s green innovation process… and presents the lessons that other developing countries could draw from China’s green innovation exercise.”
— Zhang Xiliang, Professor and Executive Director, Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University
“This is a terrific, wonderfully detailed book. A fascinating account of the development of the wind industry in China.”
— Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy & Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
“Joanna Lewis’s important book on the development of China’s wind power industry is an incisive look at a key part of China’s desire to transform itself into a high-tech green economy while meeting its responsibilities as the world’s largest energy user and second-largest economy.”
“China’s shift to embrace green growth is in its early stages but whether it succeeds or fails will have global significance, both for the environment as well as for China’s ambitions to move into emerging industries. Lewis’s work is a lucid look at the development of a key green-tech sector, and the larger lessons it holds for China’s innovative capacity.”
— The Asian Review of Books (Full review available from the Asian Review of Books)
“Joanna Lewis’ Green Innovation in China is as important as it is timely. Offering a detailed exploration of China’s wind power industry, Lewis provides a rich analysis of the clean technology strategy of the world’s leading consumer of energy. In the process, she goes a long way toward promoting scholarly understanding about China’s quest to develop a low-carbon economy. While Green Innovation is required reading for anyone interested in China’s energy or environmental politics, it will likely appeal to a much wider audience. Scholars with a general interest in China, as well as anyone concerned about global climate change, will find Green Innovation a valuable source of information and analysis.”
— Phillip Stalley, DePaul University. (Full review available in The China Quarterly, 214, June 2013, pp. 471–504.)
“Joanna Lewis’s Green innovation in China provides an excellent overview of the Chinese wind power industry and the country’s efforts to become a global forerunner in the low-carbon economy.”
“Lewis’s book is based on a decade of primary research in the fields of China’s renewable energy, climate and innovation policies. The book is written in a detailed and knowledgeable style. It elaborates on interesting case-studies of transfer of wind energy technology from Denmark, Germany and the United States to China, thereby explaining the roots of China’s booming wind energy industry. Lewis further provides fascinating in-depth analysis of competition and cooperation in the wind energy industry between China as an emerging player and the established global players in Europe and the United States.”
— Johan Nordensvärd, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Frauke Urban, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. (Full review available in International Affairs 89: 4, July 2013, pp. 1041-1043.)
“In this book, Joanna Lewis, provides a detailed account of China’s role in the global climate change situation and the innovative measures they are taking towards a greener future.”
“In a well-researched argument, Lewis makes the case that China is becoming a hub for global innovation with domestic and foreign wind technology firms.”
“As a China policy consultant and scholar, Lewis brings an unusual, embedded perspective to her closing evaluation of competition and cooperation between the United States and China – the world’s largest energy consumers, greenhouse gas emitters, and economies.”
“While this book is accessible to a broad audience, it will be particularly valuable for policymakers and industry decision-makers interested in emergent technology markets.”
— Kathleen Araújo, Harvard University. Full review available at Anthem EnviroExperts Review, September 27, 2013.
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Book talks for Green Innovation in China
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China. Embassy of Belgium, Sanlitun Lu 6, Beijing, China. June 7, 2013, 11-12:30
Beijing Energy Network, Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable, Abella, No. 28 Dongzhimenwai Dajie, 爱贝拉意大利餐厅北京市朝阳区朝阳区东直门外大街28号, June 5, 2013, 8pm.
American Chamber of Commerce, Beijing. The Office Park, Tower AB, 6th Floor No. 10 Jintongxi Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100020 PRC | 北京市金桐西路10号 远洋光华国际 AB座6层. June 5, 2013, 12:30-2 PM.
The Georgetown Club of Shanghai and the Hopkins China forum, Shanghai, China. The Wooden Box, 9 Qinghai Lu (just to the South of Nanjing West Road) 青海路 9 号, 近南京西路, 地铁二号线南京西路站. May 28th, 2013, 19:15pm –20:30 pm.
Energy and Resources Group Colloquium. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, March 6, 2013. 4 PM.
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY. February 13, 2013. 12 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 918.
National Committee on US-China Relations (Cleary Gottlieb, 450 Park Avenue #28, New York, NY 10022). February 12, 2013. 5:30 PM.
China Environment Forum. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. January 29, 2013. 9 AM.
Mortara Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. January 16, 2013. 5:30 PM.
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