Local environmental governance and policy implementation: Variegated environmental education in three districts in Tianjin, China

Outi Luova

Urban Studies, 2020, vol. 57, issue 3, 490-507

Abstract: Variation in the implementation of environmental policies in urban China has received widespread scholarly attention, but the extensive heterogeneity in local governance frameworks has remained under-studied. Leaning on the abundant, new institutionalism theory, this article suggests that the concept of institutional configuration can bring structure to the analysis of local complex governance frameworks and help identify factors that create different approaches to environmental policies. This study analyses the construction of approaches to new environmental education policies in three urban districts in Tianjin to illustrate how the suggested conceptual framework applies to centrally administered Chinese cities. The findings show that different combinations of formal and socio-cultural factors emerge as decisive in the institutional configuration of each district. This study also reveals new interesting nuances in the motivations behind environmental policy implementation.

Keywords: China; district; environmental education; environmental policies; governance; 中国; 城区; 环境教育; 环境政策; æ²»ç † (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098019862230

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