Environmental performance rating and disclosure: China's GreenWatch program

Wang, Hua; Bi, Jun; Wheeler, David; Wang, Jinnan; Dong, Can; Lu, Guo‐ping; Wang, Yuan

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.01.007

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“…However, the large iconic listed SOEs are seen to be actively engaging in CEM and The SEPA estimated that at the beginning of the century, Chinese industry was a primary source of pollution, accounting for about 40% of the nation's water pollution and about 80% of its air pollution (Wang et al 2004 In general, potentials for enforcement problems stem from the fact that municipal environmental protection authorities are mainly responsible for environmental enforcement activities in China. However, they are often less responsive to State…”

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The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental Management

Rowe

Guthrie

2010

Public Management Review

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The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental Management

Rowe

Guthrie

2010

Public Management Review

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“…In the developing world, Afsah et al (1997) and more recently Wang et al (2002) have reported the success of information disclosure schemes in Indonesia and China, respectively.…”

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Public disclosure of industrial pollution: the PROPER approach for Indonesia?

López

Sterner

Afsah³

2007

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Program for Pollution Control Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) in Indonesia. PROPER, the first major public disclosure program in the developing world, was launched in June 1995; though it collapsed in 1998 with the Asian financial crisis, it is currently being revived. There have been claims of success for this pioneering scheme, yet little formal analysis has been undertaken. We analyze changes in emissions concentrations (mg/L) using panel data techniques with plant-level data for participating firms and a control group. The results show that there was indeed a positive response to PROPER, especially among firms with poor environmental compliance records. The response was immediate, and firms pursued further emissions reductions in the following months. The total estimated reductions in biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) were approximately 32%.

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“…Looking at environmental policy in particular, regulators have linked enforcement systems with information programmes to uncover levels of environmental performance of polluters (Foulon, Lanoie, & Laplante, 2002;Hsu, 2015;Wang et al, 2004). Based on big data, more sophisticated climate change models have been developed to reduce the uncertainty surrounding decisions linked to mitigating and adapting to environmental changes (Larson, White, Gober, & Wutich, 2015).…”

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Big data analytics for mitigating carbon emissions in smart cities: opportunities and challenges

Giest

2017

European Planning Studies

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The paper addresses the growing scepticism around big data use in the context of smart cities. Big data is said to transform city governments into being more efficient, effective and evidencebased. However, critics point towards the limited capacity of government to overcome the siloed structure of data storage and manage the diverse stakeholders involved in setting up a data ecosystem. On the basis of this, the paper investigates the challenges city governments face when dealing with big data in the context of carbon emission reduction. Through the lens of the evidence-based policy and policy capacity literature, the cities of Copenhagen (Denmark), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Oxford (UK) and Vienna (Austria) are analysed. The cases reveal that the institutional complexity underlying big data integration limits local government capacity to set up data management structures that would allow further utilization of big data and that current solutions focus on local pilot sites and outsourcing of data analytics. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Environmental performance rating and disclosure: China's GreenWatch program

Cited by 136 publications

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The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental Management

The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental Management

Public disclosure of industrial pollution: the PROPER approach for Indonesia?

Big data analytics for mitigating carbon emissions in smart cities: opportunities and challenges

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