Collaborative Governance for Sustainable Development in China

Kuhn, Berthold

doi:10.4236/ojps.2016.64037

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“…The concept of multi-level governance has been previously applied to the Chinese context (Schreurs, 2010;Liu et al, 2012;Hensengerth, 2016;Kuhn, 2016). Multi-level governance can be a major challenge for governments seeking to bring about policy change.…”

Section: Theoretical Considerations: Multi-level Governance In a One-mentioning

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Multi‐level Climate Governance in China

Schreurs

2017

Env Pol Gov

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China is setting increasingly ambitious greenhouse gas targets and backing them up with a wide array of policies and programmes. How successful China will be in slowing and eventually reversing the growth in its greenhouse gas emissions will depend significantly on how well it does with policy implementation at the local and regional levels. This article examines how climate governance works in China's multi-level governance structure. It explores why the Chinese leadership is taking climate change seriously, the nature of the policies and programmes being introduced, and the steps being taken to promote local environmental innovation and improve policy compliance.One of the great challenges the Chinese Government faces is dealing with rising energy demands accompanied by rising pollution levels. China's air pollution and climate change problems are linked strongly to its energy structure. China is heavily dependent on coal although the share of coal in the primary energy mix did decrease from 76% in 164M. Schreurs

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Section: Theoretical Considerations: Multi-level Governance In a One-mentioning

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Multi‐level Climate Governance in China

Schreurs

2017

Env Pol Gov

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“…Although China emphasizes centralization, it also tends to multi-agent environmental governance [ 34 – 36 ]. In China, a growing number of people has expressed their concerns about pollution and strong demands for environmental governance.…”

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Ecopolitical discourse: Authoritarianism or democracy? — Evidence from China

Li²

2020

PLoS ONE

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From the discourse analysis perspective, ecopolitics has experienced a discourse change from authoritarianism to democracy. This study uses theory of authoritarianism and democracy in ecopolitics to explore the impact of authoritarian ecopolitical discourse (AED) and democratic ecopolitical discourse (DED) on environmental quality in China. After analysis using panel data and comparison of three main regions, results suggest a negative relationship between AED of the central government and environmental quality. By contrast, a positive relationship exists between AED of local governments and environmental quality. A positive relationship exists between DED, which measures the proposals of People's Congress deputies and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and environmental quality. Nevertheless, the positive effect of DED is weaker than that of AED. The impact is also different among the regions. Our interpretations are as follows. China's current governance mechanism is a top-down decision-making mechanism, rather than a bottom-up information transmission mechanism. The concentration of power keeps decisionmaking power and resources away from levels with considerably accurate information and capabilities in problem solving. Therefore, we suggest that governments should change their decision-making process and exert effort to be transparent to the entire society. A bottom-up mechanism of information collection and transmission should be established, such as environmental inspection mechanism and checking on cadres' achievements with green GDP.

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“…Pressures unrelated to climate change are thus driving environmental and energy policies in a direction that also generates benefits in terms of either improved carbon intensity or reduced carbon dioxide emissions. The current growth model is being critically re-evaluated for numerous reasons, and an alternative growth model that also emphasizes strengthening the financial sector might be attractive to Chinese leaders (Kuhn 2016). Accordingly, the shift toward renewable energy and improved energy efficiency could also be part of China's global climate mitigation strategy, because it is completely consistent with (at least some) domestic priorities, although not primarily driven by concerns about climate change.…”

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The Value of a Valuation Perspective for Theorizing about Social Change and Climate Change: A Study on Carbon Pricing in China

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Wang

2018

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This study combines three purposes: to advance a valuation perspective for theorizing about social change and climate change; to contribute to the general debate on pricing as the dominant policy to meet climate mitigation goals; to improve our understanding of potential decarbonization processes in China. We apply a valuation perspective to an in-depth case study of an emerging carbon market in Hubei Province in Central China. The study builds on original data collected during field trips to Hubei (2014, 2015) and additional documents covering recent developments in the Chinese carbon market. It shows how putting a price on carbon in China emerges as the outcome of a long-term cultural and institutional process in which China’s high-carbon growth model is increasingly contested. We emphasize the work that was required before a carbon price could emerge as a market price, and focus on the uncertainty that needed to be overcome in the complex multilevel Chinese system. We suggest that China’s introduction of low-carbon policies are a side effect of other political, economic and social pressures, and that it is largely facilitated because such policies are consistent with many other changes that are occurring simultaneously both in the Chinese context and globally.

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Collaborative Governance for Sustainable Development in China

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

Multi‐level Climate Governance in China

Multi‐level Climate Governance in China

Ecopolitical discourse: Authoritarianism or democracy? — Evidence from China

The Value of a Valuation Perspective for Theorizing about Social Change and Climate Change: A Study on Carbon Pricing in China

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