Chinese Environmental Governance

Chapter 1. Introduction: Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities in Making a Green China

1. Introduction: Dynamics, Challenges, and Opportunities in Making a Green China
Bingqiang Ren, Huisheng Shou

Part I. Institutions and Policies in Environmental Governance

2. A Survey of Environmental Deterrence in China’s Evolving Regulatory Framework
Anna Brettell

3. Does Cadre Turnover Help or Hinder China’s Green Rise? Evidence from Shanxi Province
Sarah Eaton, Genia Kostka

4. Incentive Structures and Compatible Development in a Chinese Local State
Jianguo Chen

Part II. Firms and Environmental Regulation

5. Environmental Management, Financing, and Performance in Chinese Firms: Evidence from a Nationwide Survey
Xiaojun Li

6. Mind the Gap: The Role of Foreign-Invested Firms in Narrowing the Implementation Gap in China’s Environmental Governance
Phillip Stalley

Part III. Environmental Movements and Public Participation

7. Environmental Protests and Local Governance in Rural China
Bingqiang Ren

8. Environmental NGOs and Participative Governance: The Case of the PM2.5 Incident
Zhen Lin, Yin Guan

Part IV. Social and Cultural Foundations of Environmental Governance

9. Firm Management and Environmental Organizational Violence in China
Gary Green, Huisheng Shou

10. Socialization and Intergenerational Change of Environmental Consciousness in China
Xiaoqing Liu

11. China’s Environmental Crisis and Confucianism: Proposing a Confucian Green Theory to Save the Environment
Joel J. Kassiola

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Asian Politics, Political Science, Public Policy, Environmental Politics, Asian Culture, Political History