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- Clean Air at What Cost?
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Clean Air at What Cost?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Blunt Force Regulation
- Chapter 3 Why Blunt Force Regulation?
- Chapter 4 Blunt Force Regulation and Bureaucratic Control
- Chapter 5 The Impact of Blunt Force Regulation
- Chapter 6 What Are the Alternatives?
- Chapter 7 Managing the Risks
- Chapter 8 Comparative Implications
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2023
- Clean Air at What Cost?
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Clean Air at What Cost?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Blunt Force Regulation
- Chapter 3 Why Blunt Force Regulation?
- Chapter 4 Blunt Force Regulation and Bureaucratic Control
- Chapter 5 The Impact of Blunt Force Regulation
- Chapter 6 What Are the Alternatives?
- Chapter 7 Managing the Risks
- Chapter 8 Comparative Implications
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
This chapter explores how China’s authoritarian underpinnings may affect the trajectory of its environmental regulation. It examines whether rising environmental consciousness and a shift in social and economic norms will push China towards an era of greener growth, even if institutions take time to catch up. It then assesses how the regime’s current preference for a flexible, adaptive mode of governance will impact the future of pollution control. Will this spur on a process of “coevolution,” where local policy experimentation eventually produces an unexpected but effective set of institutions that can enforce sustainable solutions to pollution? Or will the regime’s deep-rooted principal–agent problems – combined with the bureaucracy’s growing wariness of experimentation – drive the leadership towards a pervasive “short-termism” in environmental governance?
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- Clean Air at What Cost?The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China, pp. 183 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023