The River Runs Black. The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

By Shan Zhao. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. R. Ran
2. Fubing Su
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4. C. Lo
5. D. Roland-Holst
6. Ran Tao
7. Xiaolan Fu
8. Arthur P. J. Mol

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7. C. Lo
8. D. Roland-Holst

Citations in the corpus

• China's water-energy nexus (2008, background): “The country’s declining water resource base has been extensively documented elsewhere (Ma, 1999; Economy, 2005; Liu & Diamond, 2005).”
• FDI and environmental regulations in China (2008, background): “‘The [annual] economic cost of environmental degradation and pollution . . . are the equivalent of 8–12 percent of China’s annual gross domestic product’ (Economy 2004).”
• Rise of China and the global overaccumulation crisis (2008, background): “The increasing awareness about the environmental limit to high speed growth further enhances the determination of the center to check the recklessness of local states, which have so far been pursuing rapid development at all cost (Economy, 2004; Naughton, 2007: 487–504).”
• Implementation and Participation in China's Local Environmental Politics: Challenges and Innovations (2013, background): “A second view explains the gap between national policies and local practices with reference to China’s decentralized governing structure, which allows local officials to be choosy about which national policies to faithfully implement and which ones to ignore (Economy, 2004; O’Brien & Li, 1999).”
• Performance Management, High-Powered Incentives, and Environmental Policies in China (2015, background): “As increasingly severe ecological deterioration has triggered social unrest, which is a top concern to China (Economy 2004), the central government has begun to prioritize environmental management that previously had been a relatively minor issue.”
• Fragile Convergence: Understanding Variation in the Enforcement of China's Industrial Pollution Law (2009, background): “First, central-level commitment has been inconsistent, as high-growth policies combined with growth targets, regardless of environmental concerns, have concurrently been promoted (Economy 2007).”
• Environmental Perspectives and Behavior in China (2006, background): “…degradation, resource scarcities, and air and water pollution has been estimated to be about 12% of the country’s gross national product (Economy, 2004).1 But pollution and environmental degradation are not only harming the Chinese; acid rain falls on China’s neighbors, industrial and…”
• The China model withering? Institutional roots of China’s local developmentalism (2017, background): “In some cases, local enforcement agencies openly colluded with factories to evade central inspections (Economy, 2004).”
• Perverse Incentive Structure and Policy Implementation Gap in China's Local Environmental Politics (2013, background): “…biggest obstacle to environmental policy implementation for two reasons: (a) they are development-oriented at a cost to the environment and (b) the central government has decentralized too much power to control local governments, while maintaining very weak control (Economy, 2004; Lo & Tang, 2006).”