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To Ban or Not to Ban

China’s Trade in Endangered Species

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ID12422660
AuthorsAnnie Young Song (0000-0002-2530-1251, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author), Yanying Yao (University of Hong Kong), Yanran Yao (The University of Hong Kong, China)
Year2021
Volume31
Issue133
Pages153-167
Publication date2021-05-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670564.2021.1926103
OpenAlexW3161557535
LanguageEN
Citations received2

This study explores the conditions under which China complies with the international norms of banning the trade in endangered species using tiger bones and ivory cases. Why did China ban the ivory trade but attempt to allow the trade in tiger derivatives? The authors traced the key policies formulated by Chinese policymakers during 1981–2018. Drawing upon norm localization theory, the authors find that domestic policy preferences played a key role in linking domestic and international norms. Chinese policymakers actively chose ideas to advance their policy preferences, and this localization process reaches beyond a static fitting process between domestic-international norms. This finding has implications for wildlife policies in developing countries and sheds light on China’s wildlife policy development following the outbreak of coronavirus

Biology · Business · China · Endangered species · International trade · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Tiger · Wildlife · Wildlife trade · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Law · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology

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