Local government responses to catalyse sustainable development: Learning from low-carbon pilot programme in China

Tang, Pengcheng; Zeng, Hao; Fu, Shuke

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.375

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“…On the other hand, due to the conflicting interests and asymmetric information in the central-local government relation, the formal regulations derived from central government often fail to be effectively implemented by local governments [21]. The public, as an independent third-party force, can restrain local authority, provide pollution clues and alleviate the information asymmetry between central and local governments, which ultimately promote the efficiency of pollution governance in local areas [22].…”

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Does Environmental Inspection Led by the Central Government Improve the Air Quality in China? The Moderating Role of Public Engagement

Tian

Yang

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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The severe air pollution in China has imperiled public health and resulted in substantial economic loss. To tackle the unprecedented pollution challenges, China has launched a campaign-based environmental inspection over all regions to impel local governments’ actual pollution abatement. At the same time, with the public’s awakening awareness about environmental protection, the public has also played a particularly vital role in this inspection. Under this circumstance, the study tries to reveal the impact of Environmental Inspection led by the Central Government (EICG) on air quality improvement, and to examine the role of public engagement in their relationship. Specifically, utilizing daily data covering 249 prefecture-level cities in China from 1 June 2015 to 31 May 2018, this study employed multiple regression models and then found that due to the implementation of EICG, the concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, SO2 and NO2 decline by 2.642 μg/m3, 6.088 μg/m3, 1.357 μg/m3 and 1.443 μg/m3, respectively, and the air quality index decreases by 2.4 in total, which implies that EICG can improve the air quality to a great extent. However, the coefficients for major variables change from negative to positive, suggesting that an attenuation effect of EICG on air quality improvement exists in Chinese institutional background. Meanwhile, public engagement is shown to enhance the positive association between EICG and air quality improvement. Additionally, further analysis demonstrates that EICG promotes the improvement in air quality up to three months after the inspection in cities during the heating period, while the positive effect has existed during one month before the inspection in cities during the non-heating period. Additionally, in contrast to the instant effect in cities not specially monitored, there is a lagged effect of EICG in controlling the air pollution in cities specially monitored.

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Does Environmental Inspection Led by the Central Government Improve the Air Quality in China? The Moderating Role of Public Engagement

Tian

Yang

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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“…However, if we are only concerned with short-term indicators, market entities tend to be short-sighted and lack motivation for long-term governance. When confronted with multiple mandatory goals that cannot be integrated into the short term, such as economy and environment, local officials will naturally pay close attention to the more favorable one, namely economic development [49,50]. There is little question that disregarding long-term development will not be favorable with respect to truly tackling environmental pollution concerns.…”

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SO2 Emissions Reduction Effect of China’s Pollution Levy Standard Adjustment: A Short-Term and Long-Term Analysis

Lv,

Wang,

Zhou

2024

Sustainability

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As one key environmental regulation measure, China’s pollution levy policy has been widely discussed; however, existing research has solely concentrated on the emissions reduction effect of pollution levy policies in the short term but has ignored long-term effectiveness, which may cause research bias. Thus, taking pollution levy standard adjustments as the core independent variable, this study builds firm-level pollution data and proves that the pollution levy policy is effective both in the short and long term. Furthermore, it demonstrates that the emissions reduction effect is achieved mainly by decreasing production and increasing the removal of sulfur dioxide (). In addition, it is uncovered that the emissions reduction effect is mainly a result of two processes—the first is the greater use of clean energy and higher energy efficiency that can cause a decrease in the production of , and the second is the utilization efficiency of waste gas treatment facilities, which can increase the removal of .

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“…Chinese environmental policy follows a model of authoritarian environmentalism, defined as a "public policy model that concentrates authority in a few executive agencies manned by capable and uncorrupt elites seeking to improve environmental outcomes" (Gilley, 2012, p. 288;Beeson, 2010;Lo, 2020). However, while the central government formulates policy, implementation is decentralized among local governments (Tang et al, 2019;Tang et al, 2021;Zhang, Zhang & Liang, 2017;Zhang & Li, 2020).…”

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Citizen Science for Conservation: Towards a Cleaner, Greener China

Aczel¹,

Cao²,

Makuch³

2022

EGJ

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Citizen science (CS) is the practice in which amateurs without formal scientific training collect data to contribute to the scientific observations available to scientists and decision makers (Bonney et al., 2009). Citizen science is increasingly utilized for environmental protection and conservation as well as related purposes such as education, access to nature, access to justice, inclusion, civics and equality or other 'social goods' (Mor Barak, 2020;Makuch & Aczel, 2020). Several eco-citizen science projects are developing in China (Chen et al., 2020;Hsu, Yeo, & Weinfurter, 2020), though little research has evaluated their effectiveness in facilitating environmental protection or advancing social goods. This paper aims to identify the role and potential benefits of environmental citizen science in China to promote environmental and social objectives within the context of what has been called "authoritarian environmentalism" (Beeson, 2018).Through semi-structured interviews and a review of the limited available literature, we identify three key areas in which citizen science could potentially benefit environmental protection and promote social good in China: (1) fostering education to inform society and encourage environmental advocacy; (2) facilitating effective environmental governance through monitoring and litigation; and (3) improving data collection for biodiversity and conservation research.

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Local government responses to catalyse sustainable development: Learning from low-carbon pilot programme in China

Cited by 28 publications

References 47 publications

Does Environmental Inspection Led by the Central Government Improve the Air Quality in China? The Moderating Role of Public Engagement

Does Environmental Inspection Led by the Central Government Improve the Air Quality in China? The Moderating Role of Public Engagement

SO2 Emissions Reduction Effect of China’s Pollution Levy Standard Adjustment: A Short-Term and Long-Term Analysis

Citizen Science for Conservation: Towards a Cleaner, Greener China

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