Different extent of environmental information disclosure across chinese cities: Contributing factors and correlation with local pollution

Tian, Xiaofeng; Guo, Qi-Guang; Han, Chao; Ahmad, Najid

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.05.014

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“…Public participation has multiple advantages in dealing with information asymmetry [59], and therefore, public participation will function as an optimal means to make up for this defect for the following reasons [60]. Firstly, compared with the limited members in local governments' environmental protection department, public participation involves a much broader mass base.…”

Section: Solving Information Asymmetrymentioning

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The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Guo¹,

Bai²

2019

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As an essential stakeholder of environmental resources, the public has become the third force which assists in promoting environmental governance, together with local governments and polluting enterprises. In this paper, we construct a mediation model and a 2SLS (Two Stage Least Square) model to illustrate the role of public participation based on inter-provincial panel data of China from 2011 to 2015. The results indicate that the advantages of handling informational asymmetry and enhancing social supervision are the two logical starting points of involving public participation in environmental governance. As the public has no executive power, they can participate in environmental governance in an indirect way by lobbying local governments' environmental enforcement of polluting enterprises. In addition, their deterrent of polluting enterprises can also generate effects similar to local governments' environmental enforcement, and such a deterrent will help promote environmental governance directly. At the present time in China, the effects of public participation in environmental governance are mainly reflected in the form of back-end governance, while the effects of front-end governance are not remarkable enough. This research is of great significance in perfecting China's environmental governance system by means of arousing and expanding the public's rights to participate in environmental governance.

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Section: Solving Information Asymmetrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Guo¹,

Bai²

2019

Sustainability

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“…Since the 1970s, environmental protection has become one of the core tasks of the government. The central government of China, along with local governments and agencies responsible for policy implementation in related sectors, began to give more priority to environmental concerns for policy-making [1,8]. Establishing trust is essential to effective governance and shared decision-making [64].…”

Section: The Connection Between Environmental Attitude and Local Envimentioning

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Changes in Environmental Awareness and Its Connection to Local Environmental Management in Water Conservation Zones: The Case of Beijing, China

Wang

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This paper aims at investigating the change over time in the environmental awareness in rural Chinese communities and its correlation with environmental management measures implemented at the local level. We identify three main components of awareness, namely: perception, behavior, and attitude toward environmental management measures. Data were collected from two surveys in three villages in northern China in 2006 and 2015 that interviewed 125 and 129 respondents, respectively, and were analyzed employing an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach. The results discussed in the paper show that environmental awareness increased between 2006-2015, and was mainly manifested in better environmental behavior and understanding of environmental status due an improvement in rural infrastructure and a greater amount of information provided to rural residents about the environment. Place of residence had a considerable influence on respondents' environmental awareness: residents in eco-villages had a higher environmental awareness than those living in common agricultural villages. This appears to indicate a positive nexus between the comprehensiveness of environmental management measures implemented locally, and environmental awareness. Also, the universality of environment issues reduced the importance of socioeconomic and demographic factors in determining the degree of environmental awareness. However, more attention should be paid to villagers' external behavior and inner feelings, such as their attitude to governmental management policies. These findings yield important policy implications that are relevant to the promotion of environmental awareness in China's rural communities, and the adoption of more effective environmental management measures.

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“…As environmental problems are becoming increasingly serious, and with the introduction of environmental regulation policies, investors and creditors are increasingly looking forward to disclosure of corporate environmental information, so that enterprises can also reduce the cost of capital by actively disclosing environmental information (Ane, 2012;Shen, You, & Liu, 2010;Tian, Guo, Han, & Ahmad, 2016;Vogt et al, 2017;Wu, 2014). As climate change intensifies, companies will expand the scope of disclosure to carbon information to reduce the cost of capital in order to mitigate legal pressure (Broadstock et al, 2017;Grauel & Gotthardt, 2016;Luo & Tang, 2014;Thomson, 2011).…”

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The impact of water information disclosure on the cost of capital: An empirical study of China's capital market

Zhou

Zeng

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This study seeks to understand the underlying relationship between water information disclosure and the cost of capital in Chinese high‐water risk firms. With continuous strengthening of the Chinese Government's water regulation policy, water resources have begun to affect the sustainable development of enterprises. Many stakeholders have begun to pay attention to a series of water resources issues that companies face. As an important means of transmitting signals between enterprises and capital markets, water information disclosure can help enterprises achieve more favourable views of stakeholders. Using a sample of 334 listed companies in the Chinese high‐water sensitivity industry from 2010 to 2015, this paper examines the influence of these firms' water information disclosure on the cost of capital, and analyses the function mechanism of political connection on the relationship between water information disclosure and enterprise capital cost by using a panel regression model.

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Different extent of environmental information disclosure across chinese cities: Contributing factors and correlation with local pollution

Cited by 129 publications

References 31 publications

The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

Changes in Environmental Awareness and Its Connection to Local Environmental Management in Water Conservation Zones: The Case of Beijing, China

The impact of water information disclosure on the cost of capital: An empirical study of China's capital market

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