Emerging environmental Multi-Level Governance in China? Environmental protests, public participation and local institution-building

Hensengerth, Oliver; Lu, Yiyi

doi:10.1177/0952076717753279

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“…Whereas earlier reforms were focused on internal capacity building to ensure that the civil service could keep up with economic development, power sharing and participation have garnered support as means to provide legitimacy and higher citizen satisfaction (Xue and Liou ). Hensengerth and Lu (, 122) noted that “China, recognizing the severity of environmental degradation and the need to improve environmental governance to avert crises, the central government has introduced legislation for public participation in environmental decision‐making.” As the Chinese government still lacks experience and expertise in managing networks (Lu ), it is essential that supervisors in public agencies encourage their employees to initiate and maintain relationships with contacts outside their organizations. To avoid abuses, leaders should also articulate the boundaries of networking activities.…”

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Can Public Leadership Increase Public Service Motivation and Job Performance?

Schwarz

Eva

Newman

2020

Public Administration Review

102

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To advance understanding of leadership in the public sector, this article examines the link between accountability, rule‐following, political loyalty, and network governance approaches to leadership and employees' public service motivation (PSM) and individual job performance. Using a sample of 300 civil servants and their 64 managers in China, the study finds that accountability, rule‐following, political loyalty, and network governance leadership are all significantly positively related to employees' PSM levels and job performance. The results of multilevel modeling show that network governance leadership has the strongest positive relationship with both PSM and job performance, suggesting that managers should encourage public employees to initiate and maintain contacts outside their organizations to access relevant information, technical expertise, and resources that may be not be available internally.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Can Public Leadership Increase Public Service Motivation and Job Performance?

Schwarz

Eva

Newman

2020

Public Administration Review

102

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“…Hensengerth et al (2019) point out public participation legislation has suffered from an implementation gap, leading to the proliferation of environmental protests across China. There are indications that protests may result in the improvement and creation of local institutions that facilitate public participation, which in turn help to foster a new model of governance that contains features of multi-level governance [22].…”

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The Relationship among Government, Enterprise, and Public in Environmental Governance from the Perspective of Multi-Player Evolutionary Game

Chen

Zhang

Tadikamalla

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Environmental governance is an important component of the national governance system. China’s current environmental problems are particularly complex. How to let the government, enterprises, and the public participate in environmental governance is the key to enhance the ability of environmental governance. Based on the evolutionary game theory, the interaction and influencing factors among enterprise pollution control, government supervision, and public participation are analyzed, and the empirical analysis is carried out based on China’s 30 provincial panel data from 2009 to 2018. The research results show that government supervision has a positive effect on the environmental governance and can urge enterprises to actively perform pollution control. The effect of government supervision is constrained by the income and cost of enterprises, and the penalties for passive pollution control should be raised. At the same time, improving the government’s reputation loss can effectively stimulate the government’s environmental supervision behavior. Public participation significantly promotes the governance effect of three industrial wastes, and the enthusiasm of public participation is closely related to participation cost and psychological benefits. Public participation can replace government supervision to a certain extent. The interaction between government and public has a positive effect on environmental governance. The research results will help to build an effective environmental governance system and improve environmental governance performance and public satisfaction.

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“…A multi-level governance system, which refers to a cooperative governance system that involves different governance actors on different levels of society to deal with common properties [76], should be introduced to facilitate the coordination between governments and among local farmers, other stakeholders, and government agencies. Although it may be challenging when such a governance system is implemented in the Chinese context, it has become a need and is both appropriate and feasible as argued in recent papers by Ongaro et al [77] and others [78]. Building a multi-level governance system needs to consider issues relevant to horizontal and vertical coordination among actors, which means that actors should be able to cooperate within the same level and across different administrative and jurisdictional scales.…”

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China’s Agricultural Irrigation and Water Conservancy Projects: A Policy Synthesis and Discussion of Emerging Issues

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The United Nations (UN) has identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to tackle major barriers to sustainable development by 2030. Achieving these goals will rely on the contribution of all nations and require balancing trade-offs among different sectors. Water and food insecurity have long been the two major challenges facing China. To address these challenges and achieve the SDGs, China needs to safeguard its agricultural irrigation and water conservancy projects. Although China is making efforts to transition its agricultural development to a sustainable trajectory by promoting water-saving irrigation, a number of issues are emerging, both with policy reforms and technological innovations. Through synthesizing the historical development of agriculture and its relationship with policy and political regimes, this paper identifies four major issues that are challenging the sustainability transformation of China’s agricultural irrigation system and water conservancy projects: (1) problems with financial policy coordination between central and local governments; (2) the lack of incentives for farmers to construct and maintain irrigation infrastructure; (3) conflicts between decentralized operation of land and benefits from shared irrigation infrastructure; and (4) deterioration of small-scale irrigation infrastructure calls for action. In addressing these challenges, policy changes are required: government financial accountability at all levels needs to be clarified; subsidies need to be raised for the construction and management of small-scale irrigation and water conservancy projects; local non-profit organizations need to be established to enhance co-management between farmers and government.

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Emerging environmental Multi-Level Governance in China? Environmental protests, public participation and local institution-building

Cited by 33 publications

References 62 publications

Can Public Leadership Increase Public Service Motivation and Job Performance?

Can Public Leadership Increase Public Service Motivation and Job Performance?

The Relationship among Government, Enterprise, and Public in Environmental Governance from the Perspective of Multi-Player Evolutionary Game

China’s Agricultural Irrigation and Water Conservancy Projects: A Policy Synthesis and Discussion of Emerging Issues

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