The Paradox of Small Hydropower: Local Government and Environmental Governance in China

Wang, Jenn-hwan; Tseng, Shao-Chin; Zheng, Huan

doi:10.1080/00220388.2014.973860

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“…Finally, as environmental governance ( f 4) indicators, we consider the proportion of government spending on energy conservation and environmental protection in GDP (X 16 ), comprehensive utilization rate of industrial solid waste (X 17 ), harmless disposal rate of household garbage (X 18 ), proportion of green cover in the built-up urban area (X 19 ), and investment in the treatment of industrial pollution (X 20 ). X 16 measures the strength of the government's implementation of environmental governance functions [44], while X 17 and X 18 measure the treatment of industrial fixed emissions and domestic waste, respectively [45]. X 19 reflects the ecological greening of the city [39] and X 20 measures the progress of industrial pollution policies [46].…”

Section: Sustainable Development Indicator Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

FinTech and Sustainable Development: Evidence from China Based on P2P Data

2019

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In the current international context, the ways in which financial technology (FinTech) affects sustainable development need to be urgently identified. However, relevant studies are rare and there is no consensus on the optimal indicator system for sustainable development. Therefore, this study proposes an indicator system to evaluate sustainability and conducts in-depth analysis of the relationship between FinTech and sustainable development based on data of peer-to-peer platforms (P2P) in 31 Chinese provinces. The empirical results show the existence of a U-shaped relationship between FinTech and sustainable development, mainly determined by the pattern of extensive economic growth. Furthermore, heterogeneity analysis indicates that there are significant regional differences in its impact on sustainable development, being significant in China’s eastern and central regions and insignificant in the western region; moreover, the impact on the central region is significantly higher than that on the eastern region. Our research not only has strong practical significance but also contributes significantly to the literature on FinTech and sustainable development.

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Section: Sustainable Development Indicator Systemmentioning

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FinTech and Sustainable Development: Evidence from China Based on P2P Data

2019

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“…Потребление энергии в локальном регионе всегда имеет очень сильные колебания, а значит, автономная система без дополнительных средств аккумулирования энергии, возможности оперативного отключения части турбоагрегатов или иных средств обеспечения маневренности будет работать неэффективно. Энергоснабжение группой независимых электростанций всегда будет иметь меньшую надежность, чем объединенная система (Wang, Tseng, Zheng, 2015). С другой стороны, подключение к единой системе имеет свои проблемы технического и организационно-экономического характера.…”

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Risks and benefits of small hydropower development: Chinese experience and Russian practice

Chernyaev¹,

Васильевич²

2020

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Èkon.

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The inevitable depletion of traditional energy sources attracts a strong interest in the development of renewable energy technologies around the world. Territorial features and abundance of water resources in Russia have a great potential for small hydropower development, but statistics show that there is no high practical interest in this area. A comparative analysis of the features of the Russian and Chinese energy systems indicates the presence of certain problems in the small hydropower industry of Russia connected with the lack of a strategic understanding of the prospects for the development of the industry at the state level. This situation naturally leads to an increase in investment risks. The purpose of the present research is to determine the conditions that can make the construction of small hydropower plants attractive to investors and lead to the formation of the market of the appropriate technological equipment. Official statistics, planning documents, expert publications in the media and scientific magazines, as well as the author's comparisons of the Russian and Chinese small hydropower regulation measures have been used in the process of analyzing the Russian energy development.

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“…Previous studies have discussed the resulting tensions between central and local agendas through economic decentralization (Hsing, 2010;Landry, 2008;Lin, 2011;Zheng, 2010), focusing on the inconsistency among different entities cross administrative scales leading to difficulty in balancing environmental protection and economic development. For example, Wang et al (2015) discuss the case of small-hydro power plants in Yunnan where, despite local governments receiving a clear mandate to pursue the central government's green agenda, local cadres and interest groups tend to subvert green policies into 'economic-bundled' projects. However, this paper actually finds that the decentralization perspectives cannot properly explain why 'being green' is seen as the 'voluntary imposition' of implementing various environmental restrictions, and local authority are willing to sacrifice the interests of their jurisdictions to comply with centrally assigned policy directives.…”

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Green developmentalism and trade-offs between natural preservation and environmental exploitation in China

Hong

Chien

Liao

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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China is transitioning from the pursuit of growth at any cost to a stage in which the costs of growth and environmental sustainability have become a consideration. Career incentives for local government officials require them to simultaneously meet stringent targets for economic growth and environmental protection, but these goals are frequently in conflict. Against this backdrop, officials differentiate environment resources into two kinds: privileged and marginal, exploiting the latter to preserve the former. This ‘green self-contradiction’ is generated by two trade-offs: restriction–substitution relationship at the local level and supplement–compensation relationship at the national (trans-local) level. This trade-off framework is examined through two empirical cases: (1) a provincial policy of preservation of plain farmlands along with urbanization of outskirt hills in highland cities like Kunming and Yannan, and (2) a national scheme of stabilization for underground water in the Greater Beijing Region along with exploitation of cloud water from the distant Yangtze River provinces. We argue that these trade-offs embody the Chinese government’s ideological use of technology to preserve certain ‘green’ goals while maintaining a foundational ‘developmentalist’ logic, which we call ‘green developmentalism’.

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The Paradox of Small Hydropower: Local Government and Environmental Governance in China

Cited by 19 publications

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FinTech and Sustainable Development: Evidence from China Based on P2P Data

FinTech and Sustainable Development: Evidence from China Based on P2P Data

Risks and benefits of small hydropower development: Chinese experience and Russian practice

Green developmentalism and trade-offs between natural preservation and environmental exploitation in China

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