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Book/Printed Material Environmental policy and air pollution in China : governance and strategy

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Title

  • Environmental policy and air pollution in China : governance and strategy

Summary

  • "This book systematically analyses 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 policymakers working in these fields"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Xu, Yuan, 1979- author

Created / Published

  • London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Franics Group, 2021.

Contents

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

Headings

  • -  Environmental policy--China
  • -  Air--Pollution--Government policy--China
  • -  China--Environmental conditions

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed (02/23/21).

Medium

  • 1 online resource : illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GE190.C6

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020033752

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Xu, Yuan, Author. Environmental policy and air pollution in China: governance and strategy. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Franics Group, 2021. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020033752/.

APA citation style:

Xu, Y. (2021) Environmental policy and air pollution in China: governance and strategy. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Franics Group. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020033752/.

MLA citation style:

Xu, Yuan, Author. Environmental policy and air pollution in China: governance and strategy. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Franics Group, 2021. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020033752/>.