The Public Participation in Environmental Protection and the Sustainable Development

Abstract

There is more and more environmental crisis in our beautiful earth and in our country. According to history, human can draw a correct conclusion and selection that is choosing sustainable development way to improve the harmony between human and natural world. This dissertation finds that the public to participate in Environmental Protection to solve the environment problem is capital. The author try to build a model of investment to environmental protect and carry on imitation calculation on the practical case. The model is proved to be feasible.

Do constraints created by economic growth targets benefit sustainable development? Evidence from China

“…To a certain extent, investments in environmental protection can improve China's environmental quality (Quah & Boon, 2003;Xue et al, 2014;Zhang, 2014), but under the incentive of competition, local governments reduce the scale of these investments.…”

“…To a certain extent, investments in environmental protection can improve China's environmental quality (Quah & Boon, 2003; Xue et al, 2014; Zhang, 2014), but under the incentive of competition, local governments reduce the scale of these investments. These investments are often large in scale, long in cycle, and slow in return; they cannot deliver political achievements during the 5‐ to 10‐year tenure of officials in the jurisdiction.…”

The Effect of Governance on Industrial Wastewater Pollution in China

“…For example, some studies concluded that the total emission intensity of investment in environmental governance had a significant negative impact [ 8 , 9 ], that is, the greater the investment in governance, the stronger the emission. However, other scholars believe that investment in environmental governance has a positive effect on environmental pollution [ 10 , 11 ].For example, by using provincial panel data from 2003 to 2012, Gao (2015) concluded that environmental investment had a positive role in promoting industrial emission reduction in central and western China [ 12 ]. Some scholars also believe that the positive effect of environmental governance investment on environmental pollution is affected by factors such as governance structure and technology level [ 13 , 14 ].…”