Environmental governance for China: Major recommendations of a Task Force

Xue, Lan; Simonis, H.; Dudek, Daniel J.

doi:10.1080/09644010701419196

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“…Greater authority and resources have been allocated to environmental protection agencies at the central and local levels, and China has continued to improve and supplement its significant body of environmental legislation (Mol and Carter 2006). Although cultivating a strong environmental state remains a key part of China's environmental management strategy, command-and-control regulation alone is insufficient in dealing with the country's unprecedented environmental challenge (Xue et al 2007). Elsewhere, the spread of public participation in environmental protection partly reflects the recognition that environmental problems cannot be adequately resolved by governments in isolation (Weidner 2002).…”

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Environmentalism and NIMBYism in China: promoting a rules-based approach to public participation

Johnson

2010

Environmental Politics

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Environmentalism and NIMBYism in China: promoting a rules-based approach to public participation

Johnson

2010

Environmental Politics

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“…For example, the current literatures on environmental policy implementation and corporate regulatory compliance are based primarily on experiences in developed countries, often characterized by relatively clear political commitment to environmental protection and well‐developed administrative capacity for enforcement. Environmental enforcement in developing countries, however, is often constrained by a lack of both political will and administrative capacity (Auer, ; Ma & Ortolano ; Xue, Simonis, & Dudek, ). When regulations are widely perceived as not only unreasonable on paper but also arbitrary in enforcement, corporate managers are unlikely to comply with regulations out of a sense of duty.…”

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Political Commitment, Policy Ambiguity, and Corporate Environmental Practices

Liu¹,

Tang²,

Zhan³

et al. 2015

Policy Studies Journal

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A lack of clear political commitment together with confusing rules and enforcement often characterize the institutional context of policy implementation and regulatory compliance in developing countries. By connecting such contextual features to existing models of policy implementation and regulatory compliance, we examine how regulatory factors are related to basic and proactive corporate environmental management practices in the Pearl River Delta region in China. Drawing on data derived from both a survey and in-depth interviews, we show that a perception of clear political commitment to environmental protection across multiple government levels and units is positively associated with business efforts in basic environmental practices, regardless of the specific enforcement intensity. Nevertheless, a perception of clear political commitment is not related to proactive environmental practices. Conversely, a perception of policy ambiguity, in the form of confusing regulatory standards and enforcement, is negatively associated with corporate efforts in both basic and proactive environmental practices; yet, intensive inspections mitigate these negative associations with policy ambiguity.

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“…The role of the NGOs is, however, weak in China compared to the western countries, and their scrutiny by the government is still significant (e.g. Xue et al, 2007;McBeath & Wang, 2009). Despite this progress on environmental consciousness, much more should be done.…”

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“…McBeath & Leng, 2006;Qiu et al, 2009). Therefore, it is highly advisable, while being one of the major recommendations of the Task Force on Environmental Governance of the CCICED ('China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development'), that evaluating the performance of local government leaders should incorporate environmental performance (Xue et al, 2007). One of the main reasons for the still dominant attitudes toward over-exploitation of natural resources and the lack of biodiversity protection is that the importance of biodiversity is not fully understood.…”

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