ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the development of empirical political instruments for the integration of adaptive Sustainable Development Goals not only in East Asia but also at international level. It provides solid empirical analyses which assess and compare the direct effects from different social actors that form the emerging multilevel governance for renewable energy production, consumption and related social innovation in China and Japan. The book discusses advanced statistics to exploit large amounts of data available from original, creditable Chinese and Japanese sources. It explains corpus-based discourse analyses of the main social factors which contribute to the introduction and cultural adaptation of values, principles and idea sets of environmental sustainability in China. The book describes three important social mechanisms which underscore translation, adaptation and diffusion of discourses on transitioning to clean/renewable energy in the two countries, which represent two distinct social and cultural systems.
