Local government responses to catalyse sustainable development: Learning from low-carbon pilot programme in China.

Clicks: 284
ID: 45122
2019
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality
Not rated
Combines reader engagement with the AI quality analysis. This article has not been analysed, so there is no overall score — reader engagement is measured and shown alongside.
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Readership in this journal
Steady

Ranked #362 of 637 articles by views in The Science of the total environment

Most read Least read

Bar heights use a square-root scale. Only the 120 most-read articles are drawn; the journal has 637 in total.

Mint this article as an NFT
Not yet minted

Create a permanent, verifiable on-chain record of this article on the Scimatic Network. The NFT is held in your Journament account, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet at any time.

5 SUSD one-off · no wallet required
Sign in to mint
Abstract
Though there has been a proliferation of strategies and initiatives formulated at both national and international levels to catalyse sustainable development, most are, in effect, implemented in the subnational jurisdictions. Therefore, it is important to address how local government responds to catalyse sustainable development under an environmental decentralisation regime. Prior studies focusing on environmental decentralisation come mainly from developed countries, whereas our paper examines how local governments in China involved in a low-carbon pilot programme react to stringent environmental regulations (ERs) from central government, reflected by changes in land transfer of pollution-intensive industries (PIIs). Our results show that a low-carbon pilot programme reduces land transfer of PIIs by 34.45 ha, due mainly to a decrease in the number of small PII projects. Meanwhile, our research furthers the understanding of environmental decentralisation literature by showing that public awareness, fiscal imbalance, and market-oriented reform can improve local enforcement. Besides, our study contributes to understanding the mixed effect of ERs on firm location, which is likely to be driven by the socio-economic conditions of jurisdictions. Our study also provides practical implications for catalysing sustainable development in those countries with traits of environmental decentralisation and disparate development.
Reference Key
tang2019localthe Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
Authors Tang, Pengcheng;Zeng, Hao;Fu, Shuke;
Journal The Science of the total environment
Year 2019
DOI
S0048-9697(19)32948-1
URL
Keywords
environmental regulations local government low-carbon pilot programme pollution-intensive industries

Citations

No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org

Comments

No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.