Improvement of regional environmental quality: Government environmental governance and public participation

2020 ◽  
Vol 717 ◽  
pp. 137265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihua WU ◽  
Tianshu MA ◽  
Yuanchao BIAN ◽  
Sijia LI ◽  
Zhaoqiang YI
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Regional Environmental Quality

scholarly journals Environmental Effects of Credit Allocation Structure and Environmental Expenditures: Evidence from China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5865
Author(s):  
Qiming Yang ◽  
Jun He ◽  
Ting Liu ◽  
Zhitao Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Private Enterprises ◽  
Spatial Econometric ◽  
Credit Allocation ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Environmental Expenditures

This article studies how the allocation structure of bank credit capital between state-owned and private enterprises and government environmental expenditures affect environmental pollution in China. The present literature argues that credit allocation and government environmental expenditures may play an important role in environmental quality improvement. However, these studies rarely consider the credit allocation structure between State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private enterprises; in addition, they overlook the interaction effects of credit allocation and government environmental expenditures. Based on these, we put forward three hypotheses. Moreover, the study applies relevant spatial data for 2011–2017 from 31 provinces in China to a spatial econometric model, and the results indicate that (1) environmental pollution among provincial regions shows a significant positive spatial autocorrelation. (2) Environmental expenditures and environmental pollution display an inverse U-shaped relationship, which supports the numerical simulation results. (3) The interaction effect of credit allocation structure and environmental expenditures on environmental pollution is significantly positive, which means that the allocation of more credit capital to private enterprises will restrain the effect of government environmental expenditures. With the increasing significance of environmental protection in China, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of private enterprises’ environmental pollution behavior, expand government expenditures on ecological protection, and promote regional collaborative environmental governance to improve environmental quality.

How can environment get better? A research review of pollution governance

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqing He ◽  
Xintian Liu ◽  
Xiaoqing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Research Review ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Survival And Development ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Comparative Study

PurposeThis study aims to build a global environmental quality protection convention to jointly address the problems of environmental pollution governance worldwide.Design/methodology/approachFrom the perspective of environmental pollution of the air, ocean, forest, water and solid waste, the authors summarize the main important measures and mechanisms of environmental pollution governance in various countries.FindingsThe results indicate that management research on biodiversity and natural resources must be strengthened, the relationship between economic development and environmental quality management needs to be balanced, the comparative study of domestic and international environmental governance theories and practices should be strengthened, empirical and applied research on environmental governance needs to be focused on, and complete system research on environmental governance and management should be explored. In the future, further strengthening environmental awareness, addressing environmental pollution and managing environmental quality are necessary.Originality/valueThe environment is the foundation of human survival and development. With the development of economy, contradictions between human and natural environment (e.g. air, ocean, forest and water) have become prominent. Environmental pollution governance cannot only help address existing environmental problems but also solve economic problems of various countries. The prerequisite for sustainable development is to lay a solid foundation for the coordinated development of economic growth and pollution management.

Construction of an Indicator System for Integrated Assessment of Environmental Quality of the Dianchi Basin

2011 ◽  
Vol 356-360 ◽  
pp. 903-907
Author(s):  
Ai Jun Li ◽  
Yan Ying Guo ◽  
Feng He ◽  
Rui Jia Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Regional Environment ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Regional Environmental Quality

There are few indicator systems available for monitoring and assessing the environmental quality of large-scale regions. We constructed an indicator system for integrated assessment of the environmental quality of the Dianchi Basin. First, the definition of regional environmental quality is determined by both the supply of materials and energy in the region and the extent to which the region is polluted. Second, the indicator categories used for assessment mainly comprise vegetation biomass and the concentrations of various pollutants. Third, owing to spatial heterogeneity of a region, evaluation of the regional environment first requires division into sub-regions, each of which should be relatively homogeneous with regard to physical conditions (e.g. marine and terrestrial) and appearance (e.g. vegetation cover). Finally, the mathematical models for assessing regional environmental quality can be built according to the relationships between the various indicators, the sub-regions and regional environmental quality. The indicator system built using this approach can reflect environmental changes over time and identifies reasons for environmental variation.

scholarly journals The Relationship among Government, Enterprise, and Public in Environmental Governance from the Perspective of Multi-Player Evolutionary Game

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (18) ◽  
pp. 3351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingxin Chen ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Pandu R. Tadikamalla ◽  
Xutong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Evolutionary Game ◽  
Industrial Wastes ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Government Supervision ◽  
The Government ◽  
Positive Effect

Environmental governance is an important component of the national governance system. China’s current environmental problems are particularly complex. How to let the government, enterprises, and the public participate in environmental governance is the key to enhance the ability of environmental governance. Based on the evolutionary game theory, the interaction and influencing factors among enterprise pollution control, government supervision, and public participation are analyzed, and the empirical analysis is carried out based on China’s 30 provincial panel data from 2009 to 2018. The research results show that government supervision has a positive effect on the environmental governance and can urge enterprises to actively perform pollution control. The effect of government supervision is constrained by the income and cost of enterprises, and the penalties for passive pollution control should be raised. At the same time, improving the government’s reputation loss can effectively stimulate the government’s environmental supervision behavior. Public participation significantly promotes the governance effect of three industrial wastes, and the enthusiasm of public participation is closely related to participation cost and psychological benefits. Public participation can replace government supervision to a certain extent. The interaction between government and public has a positive effect on environmental governance. The research results will help to build an effective environmental governance system and improve environmental governance performance and public satisfaction.

scholarly journals The democratic legitimacy of public participation in planning: Contrasting optimistic, critical, and agnostic understandings

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-370
Author(s):  
Sherif Zakhour
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Participatory Governance ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Research Engagement ◽  
Individual Citizen ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations

How does public participation in planning and environmental governance engender democratic legitimacy? Drawing a distinction between the optimistic and critical participation literature, I argue that both these strands of research have tended to neglect the public’s perspective on this question. This oversight has, in effect, produced strongly normative and essentialist understandings of democratic legitimacy that treat legitimicy as intrinsic to either process or substance of participatory governance. Proceeding from an anti-essentialist understanding of democratic legitimacy, which primarily relies on contemporary social perceptions and expectations of democratic institutions, I outline a normatively agnostic framework for exploring how legitimacy is engendered through participation. Using this framework to investigate citizen experiences of participation processes in Sweden, I highlight how democratic legitimacy can gainfully be understood as a multidimensional, provisional, and contingent quality that individual citizen participants “confer” and “retract” in a plurality of ways. Based on this, I conclude by suggesting that sustained research engagement with the public’s expectations and experiences of participatory governance can reveal critical insights into the potentials and challenges for realizing democratic planning outcomes.

scholarly journals The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo ◽  
Bai
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Environmental Enforcement ◽  
The Public

As an essential stakeholder of environmental resources, the public has become the third force which assists in promoting environmental governance, together with local governments and polluting enterprises. In this paper, we construct a mediation model and a 2SLS (Two Stage Least Square) model to illustrate the role of public participation based on inter-provincial panel data of China from 2011 to 2015. The results indicate that the advantages of handling informational asymmetry and enhancing social supervision are the two logical starting points of involving public participation in environmental governance. As the public has no executive power, they can participate in environmental governance in an indirect way by lobbying local governments’ environmental enforcement of polluting enterprises. In addition, their deterrent of polluting enterprises can also generate effects similar to local governments’ environmental enforcement, and such a deterrent will help promote environmental governance directly. At the present time in China, the effects of public participation in environmental governance are mainly reflected in the form of back-end governance, while the effects of front-end governance are not remarkable enough. This research is of great significance in perfecting China’s environmental governance system by means of arousing and expanding the public’s rights to participate in environmental governance.

Public Involvement in Environmental Governance: Review of Benin's Experiences

2013 ◽  
Vol 798-799 ◽  
pp. 1162-1165
Author(s):  
Junior Bloh Nignilo Adohinzin ◽  
Ling Xu ◽  
Shu Shen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Good Method ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Integral Procedure ◽  
Republic Of Benin ◽  
Benin Republic

Nowadays public participation is recognized as an integral procedure to achieving sustainable development as well as a good method of environmental governance. This study aimed to improve the quality of public participation in the field of environmental governance. To this end, it used Benin republic as a case study to provide an analytical review of two public participation approaches developed in Republic of Benin for environmental management. Results highlighted some keys limitation of each of those approaches. The study concludes with recommendations to improve the quality of public participation application in Benin.

scholarly journals China’s Environmental Protection in the New Era from the Perspective of Eco-civilization Construction

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Qingzhi Qingzhi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Jiangxi Province ◽  
New Era ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Radical Reconstruction

Under a particular context of China’ eco-civilization construction in the New Era after the 18th national congress of CPC, an interesting question is that the discourse of socialist eco-civilization and its practice can to what an extent reshape or change the relationship among eco-capital, green technology and public participation in achieving a better environmental governance. A field-study in Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, shows clearly that there are both great hope for a radical reconstruction and multitudinous difficulties and challenges in front of the pioneering Green enterprises and the pilot areas of eco-civilization construction.

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