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Jin Guo; Yingzhi Xu. The logics, paths, and effects of public participation in environmental management. 资源科学 2020, 42, 1372 -1383.
AMA StyleJin Guo, Yingzhi Xu. The logics, paths, and effects of public participation in environmental management. 资源科学. 2020; 42 (7):1372-1383.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJin Guo; Yingzhi Xu. 2020. "The logics, paths, and effects of public participation in environmental management." 资源科学 42, no. 7: 1372-1383.
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.
Jin Guo; Junhong Bai. The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4696 .
AMA StyleJin Guo, Junhong Bai. The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (17):4696.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJin Guo; Junhong Bai. 2019. "The Role of Public Participation in Environmental Governance: Empirical Evidence from China." Sustainability 11, no. 17: 4696.
Urbanization is considered a main indicator of regional economic development due to its positive effect on promoting industrial development; however, many regions, especially developing countries, have troubled in its negative effect—the aggravating environmental pollution. Many researchers have addressed that the rapid urbanization stimulated the expansion of the industrial production and increased the industrial pollutant emissions. However, this statement is exposed to a grave drawback in that urbanization not only expands industrial production but also improves labor productivity and changes industrial structure. To make up this drawback, we first decompose the influence of urbanization impacts on the industrial pollutant emissions into the scale effect, the intensive effect, and the structure effect by using the Kaya Identity and the LMDI Method; second, we perform an empirical study of the three effects by applying the spatial panel model on the basis of the data from 282 prefecture-level cities of China from 2003 to 2014. Our results indicate that (1) there are significant reverse U-shapes between China’s urbanization rate and the volume of industrial wastewater discharge, sulfur dioxide emissions and soot (dust) emissions; (2) the relationship between China’s urbanization and the industrial pollutant emissions depends on the scale effect, the intensive effect and the structure effect jointly. Specifically, the scale effect and the structure effect tend to aggravate the industrial wastewater discharge, the sulfur dioxide emissions and the soot (dust) emissions in China’s cities, while the intensive effect results in decreasing the three types of industrial pollutant emissions; (3) there are significant spatial autocorrelations of the industrial pollutant emissions among China’s cities, but the spatial spillover effect is non-existent or non-significant. We attempt to explain this contradiction due to the fact that the vast rural areas around China’s cities serve as sponge belts and absorb the spatial spillover of the industrial pollutant emissions from cities. According to the results, we argue the decomposition of the three effects is necessary and meaningful, it establishes a cornerstone in understanding the definite relationship between urbanization and industrial pollutant emissions, and effectively contributes to the relative policy making.
Jin Guo; Yingzhi Xu; Zhengning Pu. Urbanization and Its Effects on Industrial Pollutant Emissions: An Empirical Study of a Chinese Case with the Spatial Panel Model. Sustainability 2016, 8, 812 .
AMA StyleJin Guo, Yingzhi Xu, Zhengning Pu. Urbanization and Its Effects on Industrial Pollutant Emissions: An Empirical Study of a Chinese Case with the Spatial Panel Model. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (8):812.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJin Guo; Yingzhi Xu; Zhengning Pu. 2016. "Urbanization and Its Effects on Industrial Pollutant Emissions: An Empirical Study of a Chinese Case with the Spatial Panel Model." Sustainability 8, no. 8: 812.