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Regional supervision centres for environmental protection in China: functions and limitations
Regionale Überwachungszentren für den Umweltschutz in China: Funktionen und Grenzen
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Abstract China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), has set up six regional Supervision Centres for Environmental Protection (SCEPs) in recent years. The creation of the SCEPs reflects the "green will" of Chinese government, to reverse the ever-worsening environmental situation throughout China by s... view more
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), has set up six regional Supervision Centres for Environmental Protection (SCEPs) in recent years. The creation of the SCEPs reflects the "green will" of Chinese government, to reverse the ever-worsening environmental situation throughout China by strengthening vertical supervision of the environmental laws and policies enforcement. A primary analysis focusing on the South China Supervision Centre (SCSC) has clearly shown, however, that the SCEPs today can only perform well in the concrete or "small" tasks – most of them designated or handed over by the MEP – rather than in the complicated or "big" issues. To make the SCEPs do more and better, the most desirable but radical policy choice is to reshape them into fully authorised regional "sub-bureaus" of the MEP.... view less
Keywords
policy implementation; control; regional factors; implementation; administration; supervision; environmental policy; China; environmental protection; Far East; monitoring
Classification
Special areas of Departmental Policy
Ecology, Environment
Method
qualitative empirical; descriptive study; empirical
Free Keywords
Political science; SCEP; environmental policy; functions; Contemporary
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 139-162
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 40 (2011) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works