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Environmental accidents and environmental legislation in China

In: Handbook on Climate Change and Environmental Governance in China

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  • Xiaowei Zang

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Knowledge on environmental disasters and legislation in non-democracies is limited. This chapter narrows this knowledge gap by examining the relationship between environmental accidents and climate legislation in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It offers an account of local environmental accidents and local environmental legislation and focuses on political centralization to understand bill submission and bill enactment in local climate legislation in China. It draws data from a unique provincial panel dataset for the period of 1997-2014 (N = 527) for empirical analysis and shows that environmental accidents are correlated with local environmental legislation. This chapter discusses how local government leaders make rational choices under the incentive system in the Chinese bureaucracy in the wake of environmental accidents.

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  • Xiaowei Zang, 2024. "Environmental accidents and environmental legislation in China," Chapters, in: Xiaowei Zang & Xiaoling Zhang (ed.), Handbook on Climate Change and Environmental Governance in China, chapter 7, pages 102-117, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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