This volume is the compilation of the papers submitted by scholars who presented at the international conference co-hosted by the Korea Environment Institute (KEI) and the HK+ National Strategies Research Project Agency in Center for International Area Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, titled ¡°Border and Environment: Supra-National Cooperation and Communication for Reaching Carbon Neutrality,¡± held in Seoul, South Korea in November 12, 2021. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was devoted to the critical issue of addressing climate change in the Korean Peninsula with the special focus on how to make possible cooperation between South Korea and North Korea beyond the inter-Korean border, or DMZ. The eight scholars, consisting of four Koreans, an American, a Chinese, a Russian, and a German residing in Japan, discussed various issues on border and environment as well as carbon neutrality. We sincerely hope that this volume would contribute to that effort toward the net-zero and carbon neutral Korean Peninsula.
List of Contributors
Preface
Part 1. The Border Wall on the Korean Peninsula in Global Context _Reece Jones
Part 2. China's Low-Carbon Economy: Trends and Outlook _Wang, Hongxia
Part 3. Environmental Agenda and Practice of Using ESG Criteria in Russia _Sergey Lukonin
Part 4. From Green Growth to Green Diplomacy: Japanese Domestic and International Initiatives Towards a Carbon Neutral Society _Sebastian Maslow
Part 5. Estimation of Sewerage Level of Service by Disposal Paths of Excreta in North Korea _Park, Kyoo-Hong
Part 6. An Overview of Natural Disasters in North Korea and Inter-Korean Cooperation Strategies _Kang, Taek Goo
Part 7. North Korea's Climate Change and Implications for Inter-Korean Cooperation _Myeong, Soojeong
Part 8. Cooperation between South and North Koreas for net-zero emissions on the Korean Peninsula with NBS & REDD+ _Jang, Won Seok
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References
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Reece Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a professor in and the chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of award-winning books, Border Walls: security and the war on teerror in the United States, India, and Israel (2012), Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (2016), and White Borders: the history of race and immigration in the United States from Chinese exlusion to the border wall (2021). He has also published dozens of research articles and newspaper columns on the roles that borders and immigration restrictions play. He is the editor in chief of the Journal Geopolitics and lives in Honolulu with his family.
Wang, Hongxia is a research professor and the director of Department of Population and Resources and Environmental Economics at the Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Fudan University. She is a member of China Population Association, a council member of Shanghai Economics Association, a chief professor of Metropolis spatial Development Strategy & Policy Research Innovation Think Tank, and a consultant for Shanghai municipal government, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, Yunan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet. She has published 5 monographs and more than 30 academic papers in CSSCI journals such as ¡°China Population Science¡±, ¡°Social Science¡±, and ¡°Shanghai Economic Research.¡± She has also accomplished more than 10 projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Foundation, Shanghai Social Science Foundation, and Shanghai Decision-making Consulting Projects Fund. Her research interest includes urban and regional development, industrial economy, energy economics, and environmental issues.
Sergey Lukonin is the head of Sector of Economy and Politics of China, Primakov National Research Institu