<i>Introduction</i>. Dying for Development: Pollution, Illness and the Limits of Citizens' Agency in China

Lora‐Wainwright, Anna

doi:10.1017/s0305741013000313

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“…Nevertheless, the subjective perception of health determinants should not be overlooked in health promotion or environmental risk management and regulation (Elliott et al 1999;Lora-Wainwright 2015). Environmental risk management in China is predominantly a top-down objective process that does not consider public perceptions of environmental hazards or attitudes to risk and risk acceptance (L. Zhang et al 2013).…”

Section: Geographical and Social Distributions Of Health And Environmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inequality in Beijing: A Spatial Multilevel Analysis of Perceived Environmental Hazard and Self-Rated Health

Mitchell

Dong

et al. 2016

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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dents, are distributed at a fine (subdistrict) scale in urban Beijing and investigate the association between hazards, health, and geographical context. A Bayesian spatial multilevel logistic model is developed to account for spatial dependence in unobserved contextual influences (neighborhood effects) on health. The results reveal robust associations between exposure to environmental hazards and health. A unit decrease on a fivepoint Likert scale in exposure is associated with increases of 15.2 percent (air pollution), 17.5 percent (noise), and 9.3 percent (landfills) in the odds of reporting good health, with marginal groups including migrant workers reporting greater exposure. Health inequality is also evident and is associated with age, income, educational attainment, and housing characteristics. Geographical context (neighborhood features like local amenities) also plays a role in shaping the social distribution of health inequality. The results are discussed in the context of developing environmental justice policy within a Chinese social market system that experiences tension between its egalitarian roots and its pragmatic approach to tackling grand public policy challenges.

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Section: Geographical and Social Distributions Of Health And Environmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inequality in Beijing: A Spatial Multilevel Analysis of Perceived Environmental Hazard and Self-Rated Health

Mitchell

Dong

et al. 2016

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…How to control environmental pollution has become a pressing policy issue faced by the Chinese government. After more than 30 years of rapid economic development, the country has witnessed deteriorating environmental quality, mainly as a result of its poor performance in controlling industrial pollution (Economy ; Lora‐Wainwright ). From 2001 to 2005, for example, industrial sulphur dioxide ( SO 2 ) discharge increased by 28 percent, while smoke dust emissions decreased by only 0.5 percent (the original national policy target was a 10 percent decrease of both pollutants) .…”

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Campaign‐Style Enforcement and Regulatory Compliance

Liu

Zhan

et al. 2014

Public Administration Review

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This article examines the recoupling mechanism of campaign‐style enforcement and its effects on environmental regulatory compliance. Drawing on the policy implementation literature and institutional theory, the authors develop a conceptual model of campaign‐style enforcement in which both resource mobilization and power redistribution are theorized to address decoupling problems in regulatory compliance. The two‐pathway recoupling mechanism is evidenced by an empirical investigation of the implementation of China's energy conservation and emission reduction policy as part of that country's 11th Five‐Year Plan. Findings suggest that campaign‐style enforcement can effectively improve regulatory compliance when it addresses the efficiency/legitimacy conflict by providing policy incentives and reorganizing a clear hierarchy of political authority. The article concludes with a discussion of the strengths and limitations of campaign‐style enforcement.

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“…For example, Anna LoraWainwright notes that both rural and urban citizens often feel powerless to oppose environmental problems and turn as a result to "individualized strategies to protect their own bodies". 73 Bryan Tilt's study of environmental pollution in rural Sichuan emphasizes how, in the course of economic reforms, "the individual" has become key to understanding how people fit into society, reflected not only in institutional arrangements but also in people's understanding of their own place in society and how they should behave. 74 Jakob Klein argues, in contrast, that we should not be so quick to adopt an individualized model for understanding reactions to environmental and other threats in China.…”

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Opting Out? Gated Consumption, Infant Formula and China’s Affluent Urban Consumers

Hanser¹,

Li²

2015

The China Journal

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Introduction. Dying for Development: Pollution, Illness and the Limits of Citizens' Agency in China

Cited by 24 publications

References 16 publications

Inequality in Beijing: A Spatial Multilevel Analysis of Perceived Environmental Hazard and Self-Rated Health

Inequality in Beijing: A Spatial Multilevel Analysis of Perceived Environmental Hazard and Self-Rated Health

Campaign‐Style Enforcement and Regulatory Compliance

Opting Out? Gated Consumption, Infant Formula and China’s Affluent Urban Consumers

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