Table of Content 期刊目录
1. Environmental monitoring and enforcement in China: an economic perspective review
Ye Lyu & Lin Yang
Pages: 3-25

2. Biodiversity in China: challenges, efforts and prospects
Yuanning Liang & Shilong Zhuang
Pages: 26-39

3. The role of government social media in enhancing environmental governance
Huyang Chang, Yixuan Li & Mengdi Liu
Pages: 40-55

4. Does regional carbon market construction promote urban carbon emission efficiency?—taking Fujian carbon emissions trading system as an example
Chuanwang Sun & Xuguang Zuo
Pages: 56-77

5. The environmental benefit of tax enforcement: evidence from China
Yu Luo, Ming-ang Zhang & Sihan Zhang
Pages: 78-96

6. The impact of ozone pollution on stroke hospitalization
Lyuxiu Li, Chao Ma, Wei Xu & Xin Zhang
Pages: 97-115

7. Extreme Weather and Complaints: Evidence from Chinese Netizens
Yajie Han & Hongjia Zhu
Pages: 116-136

Article Abstract 文章摘要
1. Environmental monitoring and enforcement in China: an economic perspective review
Ye Lyu & Lin Yang
Pages: 3-25
ABSTRACT
Over the past two decades, China has actively engaged in pollution prevention and control efforts amidst growing environmental challenges. This review aims to provide an overview of China’s historical milestones, current status, and evolving trends in environmental monitoring and enforcement, and findings in the recent literature. Despite persistent issues in enforcement and compliance, China has been making significant strides in tackling environmental challenges by adapting its institutions, designing effective policies, and leveraging technological advancements. Overall, this review underscores the importance of continued efforts to address environmental challenges in China and provides implications for developing countries in environmental monitoring and enforcement practices. The review also explores the emerging opportunities in policy and research in this domain.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538963.2023.2300863

2. Biodiversity in China: challenges, efforts and prospects
Yuanning Liang & Shilong Zhuang
Pages: 26-39
ABSTRACT
Species extinctions and ecological degradation are accelerating to an unprecedented degree in human history, emphasizing the imperative need to understand the drivers of ecological degradation for designing effective conservation policies. This paper aims to provide an overview of China’s biodiversity landscape over the past three decades since the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992. We begin by reviewing several key challenges to biodiversity conservation, including habitat change, air pollution, and climate change. Next, we summarize China’s multifaceted approaches to ecosystem preservation, encompassing laws, regulations, policies, and noteworthy conservation events. Furthermore, the paper explores avenues for future research, shedding light on potential stressors and solutions in the realm of biodiversity conservation.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538963.2023.2300864

3. The role of government social media in enhancing environmental governance
Huyang Chang, Yixuan Li & Mengdi Liu
Pages: 40-55
ABSTRACT
In light of the advancements in information and communication technologies and growing concerns over environmental issues, environmental protection agencies are increasingly turning to official social media platforms to promote environmental governance, especially in rapidly developing nations. The adoption of government social media has improved the effectiveness of environmental governance in various aspects, while also presenting some challenges. This paper summarizes findings from recent literature on the role of government social media in enhancing environmental governance. It also highlights prospective research topics on the use of social media in e-government within environmental protection departments, including investigating efficient government-citizen communication strategies using social media tools, comprehensively addressing aspects of e-government from both supply and demand perspectives, and understanding the underlying factors that contribute to the varying operating patterns of different government social media.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538963.2023.2300865

4. Does regional carbon market construction promote urban carbon emission efficiency?—taking Fujian carbon emissions trading system as an example
Chuanwang Sun & Xuguang Zuo
Pages: 56-77
ABSTRACT
Carbon market construction is a crucial tool in meeting sustainable development goals (SDGs). Based on data from prefecture-level cities in Fujian Province, China, between 2011 and 2020, the SBM model is employed to determine the carbon emission efficiency for each city. Additionally, the event analysis method is deployed to evaluate the influence of the carbon market construction on carbon emission efficiency in Fujian Province, and project carbon emission efficiencies for different scenarios. The findings reveal that: (1) The construction of the carbon market has led to an improvement in carbon emission efficiency in Fujian Province, the duration of this effect needs to be strengthened. (2) No significant difference has been observed in carbon emission efficiency between coastal and inland cities due to the carbon market construction. It is feasible to investigate the formation of a carbon market with distinct local features, ultimately achieving SDGs.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538963.2023.2300866

5. The environmental benefit of tax enforcement: evidence from China
Yu Luo, Ming-ang Zhang & Sihan Zhang
Pages: 78-96
ABSTRACT
This study explores how tax enforcement contributes to the improvement of air quality. We leverage the implementation of the Golden Tax Project III in China as a quasi-natural experiment and employ a difference-in-differences framework to establish causality. The findings indicate that the average SO2 concentration in pilot cities decreased by 2.8%, and the average PM2.5 concentration decreased by 3.2%. Further analysis reveals that curbing the expansion of tax-evading firms and ensuring the government’s provision of environmental public goods are mechanisms through which stricter tax enforcement reduces air pollution. These effects are more prominent in cities characterized by a higher proportion of heavy-polluting industries, greater fiscal pressure, and a stronger preference for environmental governance.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538963.2023.2300867

6. The impact of ozone pollution on stroke hospitalization
Lyuxiu Li, Chao Ma, Wei Xu & Xin Zhang
Pages: 97-115
ABSTRACT
This study is one of the first to examine the causal impact of ozone pollution on stroke hospitalization in a developing country, using individual-level inpatient medical records from a major Chinese city. Employing an instrumental variable (IV) approach with thermal inversion to address potential endogeneity in air pollution, our findings reveal ozone pollution has statistically significant effect on total health expenses across all exposure intervals, spanning from 1 day to 14 days. The impact of exposure to ozone pollution for less than 7 days on total expenses can be primarily attributed to changes in daily expenses, while the impact of exposure for more than 7 days is associated with an increase in the length of hospital stay. This effect, largely driven by out-of-pocket spending on medication and examination costs, is more salient for females and ischemic stroke patients.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538963.2023.2300868

7. Extreme Weather and Complaints: Evidence from Chinese Netizens
Yajie Han & Hongjia Zhu
Pages: 116-136
ABSTRACT
This paper investigates the relationship between extreme temperature and online complaints to local government officials. We show that the number of complaints significantly increases by 11.1% on extremely hot days relative to the benchmark temperature. Such effect is most pronounced on the day of extreme weather conditions and muted immediately after the extreme weather day. Among all the complaint areas, we find that 28.6% of the increase in complaints on hot days is related to public service, 42.8% to urban construction, 21.4% to noise, and 7.2% to safety. Moreover, we reveal that the primary motivators of increased complaints on hot days are not likely to be psychological factors; instead, the complaints are more likely to be associated with inadequate provision of public facilities to cope with extreme weather and inadequate management of other environmental disamenities caused by extreme temperature.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538963.2023.2300869