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- Title
The State of China’s Environmental Governance After the 17th Party Congress.
- Authors
Wu, Joshua
- Abstract
To redress its deteriorating environment, Chinese leaders have elevated the environmental agenda in its political discourse, especially at the recent 17th Party Congress. In this article, I answer whether the changes and reforms enacted at the 17th Party Congress and codified in the National Eleventh Five-year Plan for Environmental Protection (PEP) address the flaws of the Chinese environmental governance regime. First I identify the critical shortcomings of China’s environmental governance. Then I examine the PEP, focusing on the reforms that correspond with each of these shortcomings. I find that the PEP reforms are insufficient in addressing the shortcomings of the Chinese environmental governance regime. However, in examining empirical evidence, I find that despite almost non-existent institutional reforms, China’s environmental performance has improved. Finally, in the conclusion, I summarize my findings, examine the implications of the paradoxical increase in environmental performance without corresponding governance reform, and suggest areas of future research.
- Subjects
CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; ENVIRONMENTAL health planning; CHINESE politics &; government, 2002-; POLITICAL planning; COMMUNIST conventions; CHINESE Communist Party
- Publication
East Asia: An International Quarterly, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 4, p265
- ISSN
1096-6838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12140-009-9089-9