... approach, a prominent policy process theory that has been popular in many European and some North-American contexts. Keywords: Energy conservation, Environmental management,Environmental regulations, China www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/17561411011077918 This article originally appeared...

.... Carbon Sustainable development Environmental management Government policy China Climate change has become the most significant environment and development challenge to human society in the twenty‐first century. Responding to climate change is the core task to achieving global sustainable...

... of the development of novelties in their early phases when most actors in a system tend to see them as irrelevant. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Carbon Environmental management Innovation China China has an exceptionally important role to play regarding a global low‐carbon...

...‐carbon policy options. Originality/value The study provides an empirical application of the policy network approach, a prominent policy process theory that has been popular in many European and some North‐American contexts. Energy conservation Environmental management Environmental regulations...

...., 2009). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Carbon Innovation Environmental management Solar power Energy technology China China aims to become an “innovation‐oriented economy” by 2020 (Xie and Li‐Hua, 2009), the manufacturing and use of low‐carbon technologies is expected...