Centralization or Decentralization of Environmental Governance—Evidence from China

Luo, Zhitian; Hu, Xinyun; Li, Mingming; Yang, Jiandong; Cheng, Wen

doi:10.3390/su11246938

Cited by 28 publications

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“…Single-core governments have higher synergy in SAM compared to the other two types of governments. This partly indicates that the concentration of power can better leverage the power to solve problems rather than just setting objectives (Luo et al, 2019). It can be seen that each government is choosing different policy tools according to its own situation.…”

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Evaluation of policy synergy in coastal ocean pollution prevention and control: The case from China

Yao

Sun²,

Liu³

2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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In recent years, the Chinese central government and coastal provincial governments have promulgated a series of Coastal Ocean Pollution Prevention and Control Programs (COPPCP). Whether the government’s COPPCP can achieve policy synergy will affect the level of marine pollution governance. This study constructs a two-dimensional assessment framework of policy “subject department”–”content theme” and conducts a comprehensive evolution of policy synergy from objective, process, and state perspectives. From the subject department dimension, the study used social network analysis to find that interdepartmental collaboration was not done well overall. The policy synergy process is difficult to be guaranteed. Meanwhile, the structure of departmental synergy networks in different provinces shows differences and can be divided into three types of governments with single-core, multi-core, and vertical synergy. In the content synergy dimension, it was found by the Chinese Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers-Whole Word Masking (BERT-WWM) model that the policy content is mainly focused on four themes of marine ecological protection (MEP), marine pollution control (MPC), land-based pollution reduction (LPR), and safeguard measures (SAM). The three types of governments show different performances on the four theme synergies. The governments perform well in the objective synergy; however, it is difficult for them to agree on the policy tool synergy, and the status of policy synergy is difficult to maintain. This paper adopts the BERT-WWM model instead of the manual coding method in the previous policy content analysis, enhancing the evaluation’s objectivity. The study results will provide a reference for further improving marine pollution governance systems in developing countries.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Evaluation of policy synergy in coastal ocean pollution prevention and control: The case from China

Yao

Sun²,

Liu³

2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…Ranking officials are tracked and held responsible for life for the consequences of their governing actions on the environment. Starting in 2014, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China began to conduct warning talks with local government officials who failed to fulfill their environmental protection duties [ 25 , 26 , 27 ]. Such measures have influenced local governments to adopt policies that stress environmental improvement along with economic prosperity, with their goals not confined to their term in power but spanning a much longer horizon [ 23 , 28 , 29 ].…”

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Optimal Environmental Policy for Heterogeneous Governments in China

Wang

Bian

Gao

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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The purpose of the article is to study how the shift in the developing philosophy of China’s central leadership has impacted the management style of China’s local governments and, in turn, the country’s economic and environmental equilibrium. We use a real business cycle model with environmental variables and divide governments into those with/without environmental concerns and into those with long- and short-term policy horizons. We find that forcing local governments to plan in the long run is effective only when those governments are simultaneously mandated to consider the environment to be as important as the economy. Theoretical results show that both output and pollution levels are highest under governments without environmental obligations, intermediate under long-term governments with environmental obligations, and lowest under short-term governments with such obligations.

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“…1) Formal environmental regulation (ER 1 ): this paper draws on Luo et al (2019). First, the government work reports of 270 cities from 2007 to 2020 were collected manually.…”

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Does environmentally biased technological progress reduce air pollution emissions? empirical analysis based on spatial model and PSTR model

Meng

Liu

Ran

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Environmental policies and Environmentally biased technological advances have important theoretical value and practical significance for air pollution reduction and green economic development in China. The article is based on panel data for 270 cities in China from 2007 to 2020. Using a Spatial model, the direct, spillover and moderating effects of Environmentally biased technological progress on “local-neighbourhood” urban air pollution are examined empirically. On this basis, the PSTR model is used to further explore the non-linear effects of different types of environmental regulations. The study found that: 1) There is a significant positive spatial correlation between both air pollution and Environmentally biased technological progress in China. Environmentally biased technological progress significantly suppresses air pollution, with significant spatial spillover effects, and the conclusions remain robust after a series of robustness tests. 2) Different types of environmental regulations reinforce the dampening effect of Environmentally biased technological progress on air pollution. However, informal environmental regulation only reinforces the dampening effect of Environmentally biased technological progress on air pollution in the local cities. 3) There is a significant threshold effect of environmental regulation on the impact of Environmentally biased technological progress on air pollution. When the level of environmental regulation within a certain threshold interval, Environmentally biased technological progress has a dampening effect on air pollution. 4) The more eastern the city, the larger the city and the non-resource-based cities, the more significant the air pollution suppression effect of Environmentally biased technological advances. Based on this, this study points out that governments at all levels should pay attention to the spatial spillover effect of technological progress bias on air pollution, deepen the construction of joint prevention and control mechanisms for regional air pollution control; Establish multiple environmental regulation policies, formulate and implement environmental regulation policies according to local conditions and local technological progress bias; Formulate targeted environmental regulation policies and technological innovation policies according to the characteristics of different cities. It is an important theoretical reference to help China to fight the battle against air pollution in-depth and to promote further improvement of ecological and environmental quality.

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Centralization or Decentralization of Environmental Governance—Evidence from China

Cited by 28 publications

References 50 publications

Evaluation of policy synergy in coastal ocean pollution prevention and control: The case from China

Evaluation of policy synergy in coastal ocean pollution prevention and control: The case from China

Optimal Environmental Policy for Heterogeneous Governments in China

Does environmentally biased technological progress reduce air pollution emissions? empirical analysis based on spatial model and PSTR model

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