该书将中国地方政府纳入到全球气候变化的多层次治理体系中来，以低碳发展为对象，研究中国地方政府参与全球气候治理的行为机制。该书在公共物品理论和中国地方政府研究的基础上，从中央政府激励—约束和地方政府利益维度，构建了一个地方政府参与全球气候治理的理论框架，提出地方政府自发性执行，政治性执行，行政性执行， 自发性试验等行为策略，并进行了实证研究。

The book integrates Chinese local governments into the multi-level governance system of global climate change, and studies the behavioral mechanisms of Chinese local governments participating in global climate governance with low-carbon development as the object. Based on the theory of public goods and the research of local governments in China, this book constructs a theoretical framework for local governments to participate in global climate governance from the dimensions of central government incentives-constraints and local government interests, puts forward behavioral strategies such as local government spontaneous implementation, political implementation, administrative implementation, and spontaneous experimentation, and conducts empirical research.（AI翻译）