The applicability of environmental governance theories to China

Xidong Cao and Li Yu

Chapter 6 in Handbook on China’s Urban Environmental Governance, 2023, pp 93-113 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Chinese government has delivered policies to deal with environmental deterioration and CO2 emissions in the last two decades. Approaches to environmental management have also been amended to adapt to environmental governance mechanisms. This chapter, by reviewing the overall development of environmental governance theories, discusses the interaction between environmental governance, economic development and social justice to deal with China’s particular social-ecological problems via exploring a proper environmental governance model. This chapter has also identified the major elements, for example, power, resources, trust and commitment, and Guanxi (interpersonal social ties), which impact collaborative environmental governance in the Chinese context.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Politics and Public Policy Sustainable Development Goals; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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