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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476835903321

Autore

Xu Yuan <1979->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2021

London : , : Routledge, , 2020

©2021

ISBN

0-429-83884-0

0-429-45215-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge studies in environmental policy

Disciplina

333.70951

Soggetti

Environmental policy - China

Air - Pollution - Government policy - China

China Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Political will -- Environmental governance -- Mobilizing the government -- Policy making -- Policy implementation -- Environmental technology and industry -- Goal-centered governance.

Sommario/riassunto

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.