Environmental policy and air pollution in China : governance and strategy / Yuan Xu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xu, Yuan, 1979- author.

Series:

Routledge studies in environmental policy.

Routledge studies in environmental policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--China.

Environmental policy.

Air--Pollution--Government policy--China.

Air.

China--Environmental conditions.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

Taylor & Francis 2021

London : Routledge, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China's sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in tandem with rapid economic growth but then dropped to a level not seen for at least four decades. Despite this favorable mitigation outcome, Xu details how this stemmed from a litany of policy stumbles within the Chinese context of no democracy and a lack of sound rule of law. Throughout this book, the author examines China's environmental governance and strategy and how they shape environmental policy. The chapters weave together a goal-centered governance model that China has adopted of centralized goal setting, decentralized goal attainment, decentralized policy making and implementation. Xu concludes that this model provides compelling evidence that China's worst environmental years reside in the past. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese environmental policy and governance, air pollution, climate change and sustainable development, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in these fields. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429452154, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Contents:

Political will

Environmental governance

Mobilizing the government

Policy making

Policy implementation

Environmental technology and industry

Goal-centered governance.

Notes:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Taylor & Francis Group, viewed December 23, 2022).

ISBN:

9780429838842

0429838840

9780429452154

0429452152

OCLC:

1200833323

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429452154

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access