Evaluating the effects of campaign-style environmental governance: evidence from Environmental Protection Interview in China

Zhao, Yihang; Zhang, Xinlong; Wang, Yu

doi:10.1007/s11356-020-09243-9

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“…Broadly speaking, the PM 2.5 rebound during the heating season characterizes the typical campaign-style governance model of China (Liu et al 2015 ; Wang et al 2021 ). First is the top-down campaign-style governance with quick and highly visible effects, which may create long-term issues and side effects (Zhao et al 2020b ). Specifically, this model focuses on solving the most-pressing issue with top priorities, at a very quick pace.…”

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Decomposing PM2.5 air pollution rebounds in Northern China before COVID-19

Dong

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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China’s efforts to curb air pollution have drastically reduced its concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) from 2013 to 2018 nationwide. However, few studies examined the most recent changes in PM 2.5 concentrations and questioned if the previous PM 2.5 declining trend was sustained or not. This study took a deep dive into the PM 2.5 trend for 136 northern cities of China from 2015 to early 2020 before the coronavirus disease 2019 (the COVID-19 hereafter) crisis, using ground-based PM 2.5 data notably adjusted for a key measurement method change. We find that mean PM 2.5 concentrations in northern China increased by 5.16 µg/m 3 in 2019, offsetting 80% of the large reduction achieved in 2018. The rebound was more significant during the heating seasons (HS; Nov to next Mar) over the 2 years: 10.49 µg/m 3 from the 2017 HS to the 2019 HS. A multiple linear regression analysis further revealed that anthropogenic factors contributed to around 50% of the PM 2.5 rebound in northern cities of China. Such a significant role of anthropogenic factors in driving the rebound was tightly linked to deep cuts in PM 2.5 concentrations in the previous year, systemic adjustment of policy targets and mitigation measures by the government, and the rising marginal cost of these measures. These findings suggest the need to chart a more sustainable path for future PM 2.5 emission reductions, with an emphasis on key regions during key pollution periods. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-17889-2.

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Decomposing PM2.5 air pollution rebounds in Northern China before COVID-19

Dong

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…We can see that CEPI is able to reduce PUWD consistently and significantly, and the reduction effect is further enhanced over time. This finding is different from the previous studies, which have generally assumed that CEI's policy effects would rapidly fade or even disappear once the policy ends (Kostka and Zhang, 2018;van Rooij et al, 2017;Zhao et al, 2020). The reason for the long-term positive effect of CEPI on water pollution control is that CEPI has moved from one-time enforcement to a routinized one (Jia and Chen, 2019).…”

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Benefits and costs of campaign-style environmental implementation: evidence from China’s central environmental protection inspection system

Pan

Hong

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Campaign-style environmental implementation (CEI) is widely exerted in environmental protection, while its benefits and costs are controversial. We take advantage of the Central Environmental Protection Inspection (CEPI) System-a latest and distinguished form of CEI launched by China in 2016, as a quasi-natural experiment to compare the benefits and costs of CEI based on water pollution effects estimates. Our results based on the annual panel data from 500 cities during 2009-2018 show that CEPI significantly reduced water pollution by an average of 11.2%. Further cost-benefit analysis based on the estimates of water pollution reduction shows that the potential health benefits of mortality and morbidity reduction resulting from CEPI are at least $279.5 billion, which is greater than the $192.2 billion economic losses it causes. The gap is further magnified after considering the potential biases. We also explore why CEPI is cost-effective and find that CEPI reduces water pollution and becomes cost-effective mainly through deterring local officials, punishing polluting enterprises, and increasing public participation in environmental governance.

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“…Likewise, it controls for other related factors to examine the differences between the two groups before and after implementing the policy [19,20]. In the field of environmental policy, this method has been widely used to test the effect of environmental regulation on environmental quality improvement [21]. The specific measurement model is as follows:…”

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Evaluation of the Effects of the Ecological Environmental Damage Compensation System on Air Quality

Zhan

Liu

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This study constructs comprehensive panel data based on the China City Statistical Yearbook and environmental indicators disclosed by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment from 2013 to 2017, using a difference-in-difference (DID) model to empirically validate the effects of the ecological environmental damage compensation system on urban air quality, followed by a further analysis of the system’s effect mechanism, namely, how the system has generated effects on reducing environmental pollution. This study finds that: (1) the ecological environmental damage compensation system can significantly improve urban air quality, and small cities are more sensitive to the pilot policy; and (2) the main impact is that the pilot policy mechanism improved the urban pollutant treatment capacity and reduced the proportion of the secondary industry. After multiple robustness tests, this conclusion still holds. This study provides empirical evidence for fully implementing an ecological environmental damage compensation system.

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Evaluating the effects of campaign-style environmental governance: evidence from Environmental Protection Interview in China

Cited by 40 publications

References 38 publications

Decomposing PM2.5 air pollution rebounds in Northern China before COVID-19

Decomposing PM2.5 air pollution rebounds in Northern China before COVID-19

Benefits and costs of campaign-style environmental implementation: evidence from China’s central environmental protection inspection system

Evaluation of the Effects of the Ecological Environmental Damage Compensation System on Air Quality

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