Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780429452154
0429452152
9780429838835
0429838832
0429838859
9780429838842
0429838840
9780429838859
9781138322325
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Open Access
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed (02/23/21).
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| Summary: | "This book systematically analyses 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 policymakers working in these fields"--
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| Other form: | Print version: Xu, Yuan, 1979- Environmental policy and air pollution in China Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9781138322325
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