Knowledge and insight in national environmental governance in China
is widespread. However, increasingly it has been acknowledged that
the major problems in guiding the Chinese economy and society
towards sustainability are to be found at the local level. This
book illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of local environmental
politics in China, a topic only marginally addressed in the
literature. In the course of building up an institutional framework
for environmental governance over the last decade, local actors
have generated a variety of policy innovations and experiments. In
large measure these are creative responses to two main challenges
associated with translating national environmental policies into
local realities. The first such challenge is a 'policy
implementation gap' stemming from the absence of the state capacity
necessary to the implementation of environmental measures. The
second challenge refers to the need for local non-state actors to
engage in environmental management; oftentimes such a
'participation gap' contributes to implementation failures. In
recent years, we have seen a multitude of initiatives within China
at the provincial level and below designed to bridge both 'gaps'.
Hence, the central aim of this book is to assess these experiments
and innovations in local environmental politics. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Environmental Policy and Planning.
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