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Ho, Ming‐sho; Jobin, Paul

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“…Recent protests against polluting facilities (Xiamen in 2007, Dalian in 2011, Ningbo, Shifang, and Qidong in 2012, Tianjin in 2015, to name but a few) show an emergence of environmentalism in China. 25 Activists appear to have been most successful in mobilizing support among the middle class. However, as documented by Xiaoling Zhang and Gareth Shaw and others, while these protests are often successful in achieving their goals (immediate termination of a project or relocation of a polluting facility), up till this point in time none of the protests has resulted in policy change.…”

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China’s changing environmental governance: Enforcement, compliance and conflict resolution mechanisms for public participation

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2016

China Information

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For more than two decades, under the imperative of 'developing the country at all costs', local governments in China have allowed developers and industrialists to set up polluting industries which have had deleterious effects on citizens' health and the natural environment. However, China appears to have entered a new phase of determined and concerted efforts on the part of both the authorities and the public to tackle environmental problems. The articles in this special issue of China Information examine the main weaknesses and strengths of China's current system of environmental governance. The central questions linking the case studies reported here are concerned with whether and how environmental policies formulated at the central level are implemented at the local level and how different agents and interests, making use of the available legislative means, influence this implementation process. Engaging a range of political, economic, social and cultural perspectives, the five contributions in this collection concentrate on two broad issues: resolution mechanisms for public participation in environmental governance and the actual enforcement of environmental regulations. For more than two decades, under the imperative of "developing the country at all costs",

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China’s changing environmental governance: Enforcement, compliance and conflict resolution mechanisms for public participation

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2016

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“…9 In the past few years, environmental and NIMBY protests have occurred in both urban and rural areas, 10 with increased participation from the middle class, marking the beginning of what some scholars have termed China's environmentalist era. 11 Drawing on Alan Irwin's analysis of the state of 'public talk' and the new sciencesociety relations arising from increased public involvement in governance processes, 12 this article aims to study protesters' utilization of the existing participatory channels available for eco-conscious citizens to fight controversial developmental plans. We aim to establish whether or not these new channels for public participation reduce ecologically harmful consequences.…”

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New channels for popular participation in China: The case of an environmental protection movement in Nanjing

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2016

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In the last five years China has passed new regulations and formulated new policies to target urban smog. Accordingly, several cities have sought to improve their public transportation systems to reduce the number of motor vehicles on the streets. In 2011 in Nanjing, during the construction of Line No. 3 of the subway system, several long-standing London plane trees in the city's historical area were targeted for transplantation. This article focuses on the tree-hugging protest which was triggered by this event in 2011-12. While protesters framed their actions as tree protection and heritage conservation, this article is particularly interested in participatory approaches available to protesters, in light of certain recent developments in the environmental regulatory framework in China. Specifically, this article analyses a relatively new and less well-known tool for popular participation known as 'green assessment'.

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China’s changing environmental governance: Enforcement, compliance and conflict resolution mechanisms for public participation

China’s changing environmental governance: Enforcement, compliance and conflict resolution mechanisms for public participation

New channels for popular participation in China: The case of an environmental protection movement in Nanjing

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