Does public participation promote environmental efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of environmental information disclosure in China

Zhang, Hua; Xu, Tao; Feng, Chao

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105871

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“…For government departments, environmental information disclosure is an essential means to improve environmental management [12]. The public can supervise the government's use of environmental resources and improve the government's environmental governance efficiency [13]. From the perspective of the public, the disclosure of environmental information strengthens the connection between the government and the public on environmental governance, which is conducive to expanding participation in environmental governance.…”

Section: Environmental Information Disclosurementioning

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The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on Environmental Governance Satisfaction

Yang

Shen

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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Recently, environmental information disclosure has increasingly become a popular rural environmental governance policy. Environmental governance satisfaction can reflect the government’s policy effect, and it is also residents’ subjective evaluation of environmental quality. This paper uses field questionnaire data in rural areas and establishes an ordered logit model to study the relationship between environmental information disclosure and residents’ satisfaction. The empirical results show that rural environmental information disclosure has a significant positive impact on residents’ satisfaction with environmental governance. Further research found that the impact process occurred through the mediating variable of residents’ evaluation of the surrounding ecological environment. In addition, residents’ knowledge of environmental protection has a moderating effect on the relationship between environmental information disclosure and satisfaction. Therefore, in rural environmental governance, local governments can increase environmental information disclosure to improve residents’ satisfaction and participation.

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Section: Environmental Information Disclosurementioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on Environmental Governance Satisfaction

Yang

Shen

et al. 2022

Sustainability

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“…As falas mais voltadas à preservação ambiental vieram de grupos de proteção ou Organizações Não Governamentais e não necessariamente da população afetada. Zhang et al (2022) relatam que o resultado do seu trabalho está amplamente alinhado com a literatura anterior, mas pode fornecer evidências mais convincentes da importância da participação pública representada pelas Organizações não Governamentais (ONG) na governança ambiental. Essa situação foi observada, por exemplo, no processo da PCH Balsa da Cachoeira, com a participação do grupo "Coletivo Rio Verde", e no processo da CSN Mineração, com a participação do movimento de atingidos por barragens.…”

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Participação na Avaliação de Impactos Ambientais no estado de Minas Gerais: um levantamento sobre as audiências públicas

Santos

Almeida

Veronez

2022

Rev. Bras. Geog. Fis.

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A principal forma de participação na Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental brasileira é a audiência pública, que ocorre no Licenciamento de atividades com potencial de causar significativa degradação ambiental. A participação é essencial para permitir que os impactados por um projeto possam entender e opinar sobre ele. Este trabalho objetivou analisar a participação pública em Minas Gerais por meio da ocorrência das audiências públicas. Foi feito um levantamento e análise documental e de conteúdo das informações disponibilizadas no site do órgão ambiental que, desde julho/2018, possui um sistema que lista processos de Licenciamento e possibilita a solicitação de audiência. Foram coletadas todas as informações e atas de audiências realizadas no período de julho/2018 a julho/2020. Os resultados indicam que em apenas 8% dos processos de Licenciamento apoiados em Estudo de Impacto Ambiental houve algum tipo de notificação de audiência (agendada, realizada ou solicitada), representando 16 dos 200 processos. Dentre as notificações, tem-se que somente 7 audiências já foram realizadas. A maior presença de audiências esteve relacionada a empreendimentos classe 6, à Superintendência de Projetos Prioritários e às atividades de mineração e infraestrutura. A análise das atas permitiu identificar problemas como: indisponibilidade de informações e pouca orientação ambiental dos envolvidos, falta de foco na audiência e também indícios de decisões já tomadas, sendo apenas justificadas à população. Desse modo, pode-se concluir que a participação pública por meio de audiência em Minas Gerais no período analisado, quando ocorre, não cumpre sua função, mantendo apenas o papel de informar sobre os impactos dos empreendimentos.Palavras-chave: Licenciamento Ambiental, Participação Pública, Minas Gerais, Audiência pública. Environmental Impact Assessment participation in Minas Gerais State, Brazil: a survey on public hearings A B S T R A C TThe main type of participation in the Brazilian Environmental Impact Assessment is public hearing, which takes place in Licensing of activities with potential to cause significant environmental degradation. The participation is essential and helps stakeholders to share their ideas and opinion. This paper objective was to analyze the public participation in Minas Gerais state by means of public hearings. It was made a survey, documentary and content analysis of information collected in environmental agency’s website. This website has made available since July/2018 and lists licensing processes and makes possible to request a public hearing. From July/2018 to July/2020, all information and hearings minutes were collected. The results indicate that, during the period, only 8% of the licensing processes with Environmental Impact Statement occurred with some type of hearing notification (scheduled, performed and requested), which represents 16 of 200 processes. Among the notifications, only 7 hearings have already taken place. Most of the hearings were related to class 6 projects, Priority Projects Superintendence and mining and infrastructure activities. The minutes’ analysis made it possible to identify problems such as: unavailability of information and low interest in environmental of those involved, lack of focus on the hearings and also evidence of decisions already taken, being only justified to the population. Thereby, it can be concluded that public participation that takes place through a public hearing in Minas Gerais in the analyzed period, when it occurs, ends up not fulfilling its function, maintaining only the role of informing the population about projects impacts.Key-words: Environmental Licensing, Public Participation, Minas Gerais State, Public Hearing.

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“…It indicates that the ETS in China significantly improved the enterprises’ green technology innovation in the eastern region, while the enterprises in the central region were inhibited. The eastern region has a developed economy, high development potential, and certain resource endowment and geographical advantages, coupled with sufficient high-quality talents and superior industrial structure, while its environmental information disclosure intensity is higher than that of the central region [ 66 ], the compensation effect of carbon trading can be reflected. While the development of the central region lags behind that of the east, the high-polluting enterprises in the east have been transferred to the central region one after another, leading to the carbon trading to produce compliance cost.…”

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The Carbon Emissions Trading Policy of China: Does It Really Promote the Enterprises’ Green Technology Innovations?

Xiaoqi

Guo

Feng

2022

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The carbon emissions trading policy has profound impacts on the production and operation of enterprises. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of the carbon emissions trading policy on enterprises’ green technology innovations by using PSM−DID models. The results showed that: (1) the carbon emissions trading policy has a facilitating effect on green technology innovation of China’s enterprises in pilot cities; (2) there is significant spatial heterogeneity in this effect and it is extremely beneficial to enterprises’ green technology innovations in eastern China; and (3) the trading policy is proved to have significant positive effects on green technology innovations of non-state and non-high-tech enterprises, while it has no effects on that of state-owned and high-tech enterprises. The above findings were corroborated by the placebo test and other methods.

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Does public participation promote environmental efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of environmental information disclosure in China

Cited by 159 publications

References 62 publications

The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on Environmental Governance Satisfaction

The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on Environmental Governance Satisfaction

Participação na Avaliação de Impactos Ambientais no estado de Minas Gerais: um levantamento sobre as audiências públicas

The Carbon Emissions Trading Policy of China: Does It Really Promote the Enterprises’ Green Technology Innovations?

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