Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation: China's Path to a Brighter Future / Edition 1

by Tim Swanson, Tun Lin

Overview

This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation, and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today?

The context for the volume is the current situation in China, where twenty years of rapid growth have created a situation in which there are both demands for environmental regulation and needs for choosing a future development path. The advent of "A Macro-Environmental Strategy" for China presents an opportunity to ask how and why China should introduce regulation into its management of its development. The volume includes contributions from leading Chinese experts and established environmental economists from other countries including Timo Goeschl, Ben Groom and Andreas Kontoleon.

The volume looks at both the demand side of environmental regulation and the supply side. The demand side of regulatory intervention examines how regulation operates to supplement existing resource-allocation mechanisms, via effective demand aggregation and implementation mechanisms. The supply side of regulation examines how regulation operates to guide industrial growth down particular pathways, in the pursuit of managed development. Both sides of environmental regulation involve the important issue of implementation and enforcement.

This volume will be of most value to academics and scholars of environmental economics, growth economics, the Chinese economy and policy-makers of environmental regulations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415551274
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/04/2009
Series:	Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics , #20
Pages:	390
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Timothy Swanson is Chair of Law and Economics at University College London. He has worked on issues dealing with regulation and growth in China for more than fifteen years, and has examined issues dealing with regulation across many industries and many parts of the world.

Tun Lin is a Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank, focusing on issues to deal with China’s growth and development. He took his PhD at Cambridge University, focusing on issues dealing with environmental regulation and enforcement.

Table of Contents

List of figures x

List of tables xiii

Notes on contributors xv

Foreword xviii

Preface xx

1 Economic growth and environmental regulation in the People's Republic of China: introduction to the volume Tun Lin Timothy Swanson 1

Part I Growth and environmental regulation 33

2 Economic growth and environmental protection in the People's Republic of China Guang Xia Xiaofei Pei Xiaoming Yang 35

3 Environmental Kuznets Curves in the People's Republic China: turning points and regional differences Yi Jiang Tun Lin Juzhong Zhuang 66

4 Economic growth and environmental regulation: what is the role of regulation? Timothy Swanson 83

Part II Growth and environmental management: the PRC's experiences 117

5 Air pollution control strategy in the People's Republic of China Jiming Hao Shuxiao Wang 119

6 Progress and experience: water pollution control in the People's Republic of China Beidou Xi Wei Meng 137

7 Strategy report for ecosystem management in the People's Republic of China's experience Jixi Gao Yongwei Han 150

Part III Pathways to a brighter future? International experiences in environmental regulation 175

8 International experiences in air pollution management Haakon Vennemo Shaun Larcom 177

9 International experience to inform the People's Republic of China's water pollution and water resource management policy Ben Groom 227

10 International experiences in ecosystem management Andreas Kontoleon 251

Part IV Institutional development for a regulated environment 277

11 Institutional development of environmental management in the People's Republic of China Keyong Dong Wenzhao Li Zhong Ma Shuming An 279

12 International experiences to inform the People's Republic of China's institutional choices for environmental policy Timo Goeschl 296

13 Recurrent issues in environmental governance James Salzman 318

14 Conclusion: "the path to a brighter future" Tun Lin James Salzman Timothy Swanson 341

Index 358