Pollution prevention in China’s electroplating industry

Warren, Kimberley A; Ortolano, Leonard

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“…In addition to national level programs and projects, previous research (e.g., Sinkule and Ortolano, 1995;Warren, 1996;Cushing, 1998;Ma and Ortolano, 2000) demonstrates that local environmental improvement initiatives often play a major role in enterprise environmental management and that they can be a critical factor distinguishing poor from good enterprise environmental performance. For example, one of the main reasons cited by the Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone for obtaining certification was Dalian's 'Blue Sky, Green Sea' Project, a local environmental clean-up initiative with the goal of protecting the local natural environment, enhancing local residents' living conditions and increasing the city's international economic competitiveness.…”

Section: Government Environmental Improvement Initiatives and Pilot Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Here, the work of Warren (1996), Cushing et al (1999), andEconomy (2004) is particularly instructive. The underlying theme is that, with appropriate inducements, economic or otherwise, enterprises can be motivated to achieve environmental performance improvement goals, especially in conjunction with local environmental improvement initiatives or cleaner production projects.…”

Section: Formal Rules Informal Rules and Incentivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding ISO 14001 adoption and implementation in China

Cushing¹,

McGray²,

Lu³

2005

IJESD

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This paper investigates the status of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) standard in China and analyses key factors influencing its adoption by Chinese enterprises. It applies lessons learnt from studying the implementation of China's mandatory environmental regulations to assess the potential for using this voluntary standard to promote improved environmental performance. Our findings indicate that the number of certified enterprises is growing exponentially and that factors influencing adoption include international trade, transnational corporate policy, government-sponsored environmental projects, the potential for regulatory, economic, and environmental benefits, and the interest of top company management. Evaluation of case studies demonstrates that while the reported benefits of ISO 14001 adoption are often substantial, benefits are often qualitative and more normalised, while quantitative information is needed to conduct analysis that can be generalised within and across industrial sectors. Finally, we synthesise information presented in the body of the paper and make recommendations on steps that can be taken to maximise the efficacy of future ISO 14001 certifications.

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Section: Government Environmental Improvement Initiatives and Pilot Pmentioning

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Section: Formal Rules Informal Rules and Incentivesmentioning

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Understanding ISO 14001 adoption and implementation in China

Cushing¹,

McGray²,

Lu³

2005

IJESD

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Corporate Environmental Policy Statements in Mainland China: To What Extent Do They Conform to ISO 14000 Documentation?

Chung

Fryxell

2005

Environmental Management

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For decades, industry has been the main source of pollution in China. Determined to make changes, the mainland Chinese authorities have decided to promote mechanisms that incorporate environmental concerns into the internal management of enterprises. This is manifested in the rapid adoption of the ISO14000 standards, including a significant increase in ISO14001 registrations in China. Thus, this study examined the environmental policy statements of 106 certified facilities in mainland China against a strict interpretation of the mandatory requirements of the ISO 14001:1996 standard and the nonmandatory ISO14004 requirements in order to shed some light on the implementation of environmental management systems in an emerging economic giant. It was decided to analyze the environmental policy statement because such a statement is a core element in the ISO system of environmental management of each facility and there are relatively clear and specific requirements on what an environmental policy statement shall include. An analysis of the contents of the environmental policy statements shows that conformance to the relevant requirements of both the mandatory ISO14001 standard and the nonmandatory ISO14004 standard is far from impressive and that the facilities in our sample seldom went beyond the minimum requirements. By using ISO14001 and ISO14004 conformance scores as the dependent variables, we found that conformity to ISO14001 and overall conformance to ISO14000 series can be explained to some extent by the degree of top management commitment, the experience with informal environmental management systems, and the form of ownership of the facilities.

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China's national cleaner production strategy

Wang

1999

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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Pollution prevention in China’s electroplating industry

Cited by 5 publications

References 4 publications

Understanding ISO 14001 adoption and implementation in China

Understanding ISO 14001 adoption and implementation in China

Corporate Environmental Policy Statements in Mainland China: To What Extent Do They Conform to ISO 14000 Documentation?

China's national cleaner production strategy

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