Review and challenges of policies of environmental protection and sustainable development in China

Zhang, Kunmin; Wen, Zongguo

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2007.06.019

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“…The findings echo several authors' suggestions that whilst governments play the dominant role in the formal institutional mechanism of environmental management, it can be enhanced through market promotion and public participation Zhang and Wen 2008).…”

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The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental Management

Rowe

Guthrie

2010

Public Management Review

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“…China's "sophisticated set of regulatory programs" (Ma and Ortolano, 2000, p. 8) and the lack of stringent enforcement of environmental laws and rules has been widely cited by various authors (e.g., Ferris and Zhang 2002;Green and Yip 1993;Ross 1994;Stover 2000;Tang et al 1997;Zhang and Wen 2008).…”

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The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental Management

Rowe

Guthrie

2010

Public Management Review

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“…Similar China has also faced the challenge of growing its economy and controlling environmental pollution (Zhang & Wen, 2008). Perhaps what is unexpected, given that some participants understood the relationship between fossil fuel, GHG emissions and climate change, is the relative absence of discussion about Nigeria's oil reserves.…”

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Travel, tourism, climate change, and behavioral change: travelers’ perspectives from a developing country, Nigeria

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2014

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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(2015) Travel, tourism, climate change, and behavioral change: travelers' perspectives from a developing country, Nigeria. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 23(3), 437-454.Travel, tourism, climate change and behavioral change: travelers' perspectives from a developing country, Nigeria Abstract While studies have examined people's understanding of climate change and its relationship to tourism, these focus largely on developed country populations. Much future tourism growth will come from developing countries following economic development, often countries where climate change will be strongly felt. Do tourists from developing countries have the same knowledge gaps about travel, tourism and climate change as in the developed world? Will behavioral change policies be successful in encouraging more environmentally friendly approaches to climate change and tourism in developing countries? This paper presents findings from 20 in-depth interviews with active Nigerian tourists, analyzing their understanding of climate change, the links known, or not, between their travel and climate change, and their willingness to change their tourism patterns. Understanding of climate change was limited and there was conceptual confusion. Participants did not view their own travel as a cause of climate change and many were embedded in air travel practice. Participants were unwilling to change their tourism patterns to reduce their contribution to climate change. Significant structural barriers limit low carbon tourism travel in Nigeria (and other developing countries), including reliability, availability, safety and speed. Behavioral change will be difficult to achieve.

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“…This has been shown to be applicable and effective in the implementation of soil and water conservation and the Grain to Green projects in Shanxi province, northern China (Yuan 2009). The administrative (e.g., command and control policies or regulations), legal (e.g., legislation and law enforcement), and market approaches (e.g., ecological and environmental taxation and payment for ecosystem services) (Zhang and Wen 2008) need to be balanced and integrated to create a more flexible and effective ecosystem management system. This can be brought about through a paradigm shift from ''command and control'' to the ''rule of law'', public participation, and market-based incentives in ecosystem management routines.…”

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Major Ecosystems in China: Dynamics and Challenges for Sustainable Management

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Wei

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Environmental Management

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Ecosystems, though impacted by global environmental change, can also contribute to the adaptation and mitigation of such large scale changes. Therefore, sustainable ecosystem management is crucial in reaching a sustainable future for the biosphere. Based on the published literature and publicly accessible data, this paper discussed the status and trends of forest, grassland, and wetland ecosystems in China that play important roles in the ecological integrity and human welfare of the nation. Ecological degradation has been observed in these ecosystems at various levels and geographic locations. Biophysical (e.g., climate change) and socioeconomic factors (e.g., intensive human use) are the main reasons for ecosystem degradation with the latter factors serving as the dominant driving forces. The three broad categories of ecosystems in China have partially recovered from degradation thanks to large scale ecological restoration projects implemented in the last few decades. China, as the largest and most populated developing nation, still faces huge challenges regarding ecosystem management in a changing and globalizing world. To further improve ecosystem management in China, four recommendations were proposed, including: (1) advance ecosystem management towards an application-oriented, multidisciplinary science; (2) establish a well-functioning national ecological monitoring and data sharing mechanism; (3) develop impact and effectiveness assessment approaches for policies, plans, and ecological restoration projects; and (4) promote legal and institutional innovations to balance the intrinsic needs of ecological and socioeconomic systems. Any change in China's ecosystem management approach towards a more sustainable one will benefit the whole world. Therefore, international collaborations on ecological and environmental issues need to be expanded.

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Review and challenges of policies of environmental protection and sustainable development in China

Cited by 543 publications

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The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental Management

The Chinese Government's Formal Institutional Influence On Corporate Environmental Management

Travel, tourism, climate change, and behavioral change: travelers’ perspectives from a developing country, Nigeria

Major Ecosystems in China: Dynamics and Challenges for Sustainable Management

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