Energy is crucial to the functioning of any human society and central to understanding East Asiaâs âeconomic miracleâ. The regionâs rapid development over the last few decades has been inherently energy-intensive and the impact on global energy security climate change and the twenty-first-century global system generally is now very significant and will become more so over foreseeable years and decades to come. The region is already the worldâs largest energy consumer and greenhouse gas emitter so establishing cleaner energy systems in East Asia is both a regional and global challenge and renewable energy has a critically important part to play in meeting it. This book presents a comprehensive study of renewable energy development in East Asia. It begins by examining renewable energy development in global and historic contexts and situates East Asiaâs position in the recent worldwide expansion of renewables. This same approach is applied on sector-specific chapter studies on wind solar hydropower geothermal ocean (wave and tidal) and bioenergy and to general trends in renewable energy policy. Governments play a critical role in promoting renewables and their contribution to tackling climate change and other environmental challenges. Christopher M. Dent argues this is particularly relevant to East Asia where state capacity practice has been increasingly allied to ecological modernisation thinking to form what he calls ânew developmentalismâ the principal foundation on which renewables have developed in the region as well as how East Asiaâs low carbon development is being generally promoted. Renewable Energy in East Asia will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian studies economics political economy energy studies business development international relations and environmental studies. It will also appeal to researchers working on the subject matter in government business international organisations think tanks and civil society organisations. . Language: English