Can campaign‐style enforcement work: When and how? Evidence from straw burning control in China

Feng, Wang; Wang, Min; Yin, Huaqiang

doi:10.1111/gove.12571

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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 ).…”

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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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“…This may relate to recent Government regulations on crop residue burning in many countries. In China, for example, crop residue burning has been banned since 1997 43 .…”

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Global decline in subsistence-oriented and smallholder fire use

2022

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Controlled fire use by hunter-gatherers and smallholder agriculturalists and pastoralists shapes ecologies and enhances livelihoods worldwide. Yet, at the global scale, we know little about how these practices influence human wellbeing, ecologies, and wildfire risk. As a basis for global syntheses, we collated information from the literature about fire practices in 587 case study locations spanning the globe. Here, we assess the coverage and completeness of this data. Limited quantitative data, particularly, presents a challenge for improved modelling of anthropogenic influences on fire regimes. We also analyse global trends in fire practices from these studies, finding evidence that subsistence-oriented fire practices have declined in recent decades, while marketoriented fire practices have increased. The case studies point to important drivers of these changes, especially economic pressures, and state governance. We discuss the implications of these findings for fire policy, and future research.

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“…CEPI could mobilize various resources within the vertical system from top to bottom and trigger power redistribution among bureaucratic agencies, thereby stimulating the local party and government leaders to bear the “common environmental protection responsibility” and addressing the long-standing phenomenon of “formalism” in environmental governance ( 18 , 19 ). The third role of campaign-style governance also is to alleviate information asymmetries ( 5 ). On the one hand, the conventional hierarchical governance structure is transformed into a flat one, thus preventing miscommunication between the central and local governments ( 16 ).…”

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“…Once the CEPI policy was promulgated, it attracted the attention of the academic community. Scholars have mostly studied the reasons for the success of CEPI, the problems and the campaign-style environmental governance (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6). Recently some scholars have studied the effectiveness of CEPI (1,3,(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14), but most of them investigated the influence of CEPI on firm's behavior, a systematic study focusing on the pollution mitigation effects of CEPI is still limited (13).…”

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Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection

Feng

Cheng

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Central environmental protection inspection (CEPI) is a major institutional innovation in China's environmental governance, but its effectiveness in improving air quality is still unclear. However, the effectiveness of CEPI is of great significance and can be regarded as an important reference for deepening the reform of environmental governance system in China. This article takes the CEPI as a quasi-natural experiment and uses the regression discontinuity design (RDD) and the difference-in-differences (DID) methods to examine the effectiveness of this policy. The study found that the first round of CEPI reduced the air pollution of cities in the inspected provinces in a short time. Moreover, this positive policy effect persisted in the aftermath of the inspection, but this long-term effect is mainly reflected in PM10 and SO2. Heterogeneity analysis showed that CEPI was only effective in reducing air pollutants of industry-oriented cities, cities in Central and Eastern China, and cities with large or small population size. The moderating effect analysis indicated that a healthy relationship (close and clean) between the local governments and businesses was conducive to reducing air pollution. The research confirmed the presence of “selective” reduction of air pollutants in the long run caused by CEPI, thereby providing new inspiration for the improvement of campaign-style environmental governance and the follow-up CEPI work.

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Can campaign‐style enforcement work: When and how? Evidence from straw burning control in China

Cited by 21 publications

References 39 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

Global decline in subsistence-oriented and smallholder fire use

Campaign-style governance of air pollution in China? A comprehensive analysis of the central environmental protection inspection

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