creator Shapiro, Matthew A. This paper explores the phenomena of environmental coordination within Northeast Asia. I initially frame the discussion around claims that China is a pollution haven for its neighboring countries, and I look for evidence in the domestic and regional environmental institutions which challenge China’s pollution haven status. I find that that there is a science and technology-based epistemic community in Northeast Asia which provides an important theoretical response to counter the pollution haven hypothesis. As well, given its strong science and technological output, Japan is poised to assume leadership of the Northeast Asian environmental regime for at least the short- to medium-term. Submitted by Matthew A. Shapiro (mshapir2@iit.edu) on 2013-03-15T11:39:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Regionalisms Challenge to the Pollution Haven Hypothesis.pdf: 12241 bytes, checksum: 622129d387bd17dcc341678b34f9ca72 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-03-15T11:39:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Regionalisms Challenge to the Pollution Haven Hypothesis.pdf: 12241 bytes, checksum: 622129d387bd17dcc341678b34f9ca72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 2013 2013

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