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oapen-20.500.12657-428372023-05-25T09:43:40Z Environmental Policy and Air Pollution in China Xu, Yuan Development economics and emerging economies Environmental economics Applied ecology Environmental policy and protocols Politics and government Energy Climate change bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RND Environmental policy & protocols bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PH Physics::PHD Classical mechanics::PHDY Energy bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution & threats to the environment::RNPG Climate change 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. 2020-11-04T16:03:39Z 2020-11-04T16:03:39Z 2021 book ONIX_20201104_9780429838859_4 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42837 eng Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780429838859.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429452154 10.4324/9780429452154 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge 212 open access
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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.
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