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- Title
The Compensation Trap: The Limits of Community-Based Pollution Regulation in China.
- Authors
Benjamin van Rooij; Wainwright, Anna Lora; Yunmei Wu; Yiyun (Amy) Zhang
- Abstract
The article presents an analysis of a localized pattern of citizen involvement in pollution regulation, which is drawn from a detailed ethnographic case study of one locality in southwestern China. It argues that the social, economic, and political contexts in the local community are deeply affected by the processes of industrialization that in turn give rise to a particular form of community-based pollution regulation. It analyzes how the compensation trap developed and through inference draws larger lessons for pollution regulation in China and countries with similar contexts. It details three stages of community-based regulation including industrial compensation in the planned economy, compensation contracts and collective action and resource capitalism and opportunist acquiescence.
- Subjects
CHINA; POLLUTION control industry; POLLUTION; POLLUTION laws; POLLUTION -- Social aspects; HOT spots (Pollution); INDUSTRIALIZATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION &; society; COMMUNITY-based conservation
- Publication
Pace Environmental Law Review, 2012, Vol 29, Issue 3, p701
- ISSN
0738-6206
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58948/0738-6206.1703