Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Information disclosure in environmental risk management: developments in China

Entering the twenty-first century, China has been the site of many serious environmental disasters and accidents. These have strengthened the call for the establishment of an environmental risk management system and for the development of new policies to effectively manage risk. Among the new policies in China's environmental risk management strategy are pollution insurance and information disclosure. This paper explores information disclosure policies through the implementation of the Environmental Information Disclosure Decree by governmental authorities and companies. In both 2008 and 2010, we reviewed the websites of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and all 31 provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus, conducted experiments in requesting information disclosure, and held interviews with all provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus. We conclude that the implementation of the Environmental Information Disclosure Decree is improving but still far from widespread, full and effective. The lack of enforcement and the ambiguity of some clauses in the decree give provincial environmental agencies great discretion to avoid disclosure and discourages enforcement of company environmental information disclosure. Implementation shortcomings of the decree are also related to the longstanding closeness, secrecy and monopoly of information in China's political system.

Weitere Titel
Enthüllungen zum Umweltrisikomanagement: Entwicklungen in China
ISSN
1868-4874
Umfang
Seite(n): 163-192
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 40(3)

Thema
Öffentliche Verwaltung, Militärwissenschaft
Ökologie
Politikwissenschaft
spezielle Ressortpolitik
Ökologie und Umwelt
Verwaltungswissenschaft
Umweltmanagement
Umweltrecht
Implementation
Information
China
Umweltpolitik
Politikumsetzung
Ostasien
Umweltschutzorganisation
Berichterstattung
Risikomanagement
Informationspolitik
Internet
Umweltverschmutzung
Umweltschutz
empirisch
empirisch-quantitativ
deskriptive Studie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Mol, Arthur P. J.
He, Guizhen
Zhang, Lei
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Deutschland
(wann)
2011

URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-4581
Letzte Aktualisierung
21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Mol, Arthur P. J.
  • He, Guizhen
  • Zhang, Lei

Entstanden

  • 2011

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