Does the “Miracle Drug” of Environmental Governance Really Improve Air Quality? Evidence from China’s System of Central Environmental Protection Inspections

Wu, Ruxin; Hu, Piao

doi:10.3390/ijerph16050850

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“…Secondly, government environmental governance of air pollution should pay attention to the cooperativity of environmental governance between regions. The actions of local governments are crucial to China's environmental governance because they need to implement the central environmental policy and take responsibility for local social welfare and public health (Wu and Hu, 2019). Although this study only used the data of 31 provinces, and did not analyzed the more detailed data of Municipality-level cities, the Moran Index analysis of still showed the trend of spatial aggregation about the AQ, from insignificant at 2003 to significant at 2018.…”

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Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Ambient air pollution is an important environmental problem that impacts the health and sustainable development of human beings. Many measures have been taken by governments to decrease air pollution. This paper focuses on whether government investment has a positive effect on air quality. Based on China’s environmental statistics from 2003 to 2020, the Spatiotemporal Weighted Regression Model is used to observe the spatiotemporal correlation between environmental governance investment and air quality in different provinces in China, finding that there is a negative time-space correlation between environmental governance investment and air quality. In addition, environmental governance investment will not immediately improve air quality, and air pollution has the characteristics of spatial overflow that the pollution between regions affect each other. Then, to further research governments how to deal with environmental protection, configuration analysis has been used, and finds out four high-performance paths for environmental governance of China’s provinces. At the end of this research, we put forward four suggestions for air protection. Firstly, government should formulate long-term air governance policies. Secondly, government environmental governance of air pollution should pay attention to the cooperativity of environmental governance between regions. Thirdly, the third sectors, companies and the public should be encouraged in air protection. Fourthly, government should build a whole-process air governance strategy.

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Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data

Zhang

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Environmental problems are a typical dilemma in public governance. Governments can guide society to conduct environmental governance through institutional arrangements [ 42 , 43 ], such as environmental policy tools [ 44 , 45 ], financial arrangements [ 46 , 47 ], and environmental protection assessments and inspections [ 48 , 49 ]. Ecological environmental protection is inseparable from the intervention and governance of public power departments.…”

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Impact of rating and praise campaigns on local government environmental governance efficiency: Evidence from the campaign of establishment of national sanitary cities in China

Tang

Lin

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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Background Ecological and environmental protection is essential to achieving sustainable and high-quality development, which highlights the important role of environmental governance. In terms of the practical actions of environmental governance, the central government in China has carried out continuous rating and praise campaigns, and local governments have actively promoted this effort. However, the related performance consequences have not been empirically investigated. We aimed to verify whether this incentive policy can improve the efficiency of environmental governance and whether this governance method has long-term effects. In addition, we sought to identify mechanisms through which the policy can improve environmental governance. Method We take the rating and praise campaign of the Establishment of National Sanitary Cities (EONSCs) as a quasi-natural experiment and use the panel data for 174 cities from 2004 to 2016 and the propensity score matching-difference in differences (PSM-DID) method to test the impact of rating and praise campaigns on environmental governance efficiency. Results EONSCs campaign can improve the efficiency of environmental governance by 0.7595 (p<0.01), which is significant at the 1% level; the effects are clearly significant during the evaluation process and the year in which cities are named National Sanitary Cities (NSCs) but decrease annually thereafter. The EONSCs campaign has a significant promoting effect on public services provision, such as public infrastructure investment, public transportation and education. Conclusions (1) The rating and praise campaigns can effectively improve the efficiency of environmental governance; (2) the incentive effect is distorted and is not a long-term effect; (3) the impact of the rating and praise campaign of EONSCs on the efficiency of environmental governance is mainly realized through the provision of corresponding public services that are closely related to environmental protection. The findings of this paper provide empirical support for the effectiveness of the central government’s rating and praise campaigns and could motivate local governments to actively participate in environmental governance. Moreover, the findings provide an important reference for further improving the rating and praise campaigns and the level of environmental governance.

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“…In the theoretical model, Chong and Sun (2020) explored the emission reduction strategies of CEPI based on an evolutionary game theory model. In the empirical analysis, many scholars found that CEPI can improve environmental quality (Wu and Hu, 2019;Jia and Chen, 2019;He and Geng, 2020) and reduce pollutant emissions (Zhang et al, 2018). While Wu and Hu (2019) argue that the emission reduction effect of CEPI is not sustainable in the short term, Jia and Chen (2019) argue that this effect will not gradually diminish after regulation.…”

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“…Compared with previous environmental policies, the Central Environmental Protection Inspector (CEPI) has made the results of the inspectors an important basis for the assessment and appointment of leading cadres, increased the assessment of local governments' environmental performance, enhanced local governments' enforcement efforts, and improved the problems of poor policy implementation and difficult accountability of local governments in the process of environmental governance. Scholars have studied the implementation effect of CEPI in terms of environmental quality improvement (Wu and Hu, 2019;Jia and Chen, 2019;He and Geng, 2020;Zhang et al, 2018), corporate stock value (Tian et al, 2019), and capital market response (Zeng et al, 2021), respectively. Then, in a market environment where China's environmental regulatory system is not yet perfect, whether CEPI can have a good effect on environmental information disclosure, reduce the hoarding of negative corporate information and reduce the risk of corporate stock price crash risk.…”

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Central environmental protection inspector and stock price crash risk—evidence from polluting industries firms in China

Wen

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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In recent years, under the background of vigorously promoting environmental governance, the implementation effect of the central environmental protection inspection is an issue of great concern to the government and the public. This paper systematically investigates the impact of central environmental protection inspection on the risk of stock price crash using a sample of listed firms in polluting industries.The results show that compared with non-supervised areas, central environmental protection inspection can reduce the polluting industries firms' stock price crash risk by reducing stock price bubbles. After a series of robustness tests, the results still held. The above transmission mechanism is more effective in the samples of private enterprises, low information transparency and disclosure quality enterprises, non-national civilized urban areas and high promotion incentive areas. Furthermore, this paper found that there were differences in the effects of central environmental protection inspection in different batches. Among the effects of central environmental protection inspection in different batches, the effect of environmental regulation in the second, third and fourth batches was better, and the effect of central environmental protection inspection in different batches gradually deepened. Finally, by analyzing the environmental governance of the central environmental protection inspection, it is found that the central environmental protection inspection has significant short-term and long-term control effect in air pollution governance, and it is still necessary to strengthen the law enforcement in water pollution governance.

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Does the “Miracle Drug” of Environmental Governance Really Improve Air Quality? Evidence from China’s System of Central Environmental Protection Inspections

Cited by 45 publications

References 44 publications

Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data

Environmental governance investment and Air Quality: Based on China’s provincial panel data

Impact of rating and praise campaigns on local government environmental governance efficiency: Evidence from the campaign of establishment of national sanitary cities in China

Central environmental protection inspector and stock price crash risk—evidence from polluting industries firms in China

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