This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly
lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the
complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past
two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China's sulfur dioxide
emissions rose quickly in tandem with rapid economic growth but
then dropped to a level not seen for at least four decades. Despite
this favorable mitigation outcome, Xu details how this stemmed from
a litany of policy stumbles within the Chinese context of no
democracy and a lack of sound rule of law. Throughout this book,
the author examines China's environmental governance and strategy
and how they shape environmental policy. The chapters weave
together a goal-centered governance model that China has adopted of
centralized goal setting, decentralized goal attainment,
decentralized policy making and implementation. Xu concludes that
this model provides compelling evidence that China's worst
environmental years reside in the past. This book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of Chinese environmental policy
and governance, air pollution, climate change and sustainable
development, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in
these fields. The Open Access version of this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429452154, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
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