1st Edition

Environmental Policy and Air Pollution in China Governance and Strategy

By Yuan Xu Copyright 2021
212 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 65 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Political Will

3. Environmental Governance

4. Mobilizing the Government

5. Policy Making

6. Policy Implementation

7. Environmental Technology and Industry

8. Goal-Centered Governance

Biography

Yuan Xu is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.