Contemporary Environmental Policy Governance in China: The Transformation of Municipal Solid Waste Management [Hardcover]

This book examines environmental governance in China during the Xi Jinping era. Offering fresh insights into Chinas policy processes, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Chinese Politics and Environmental Policy.

A timely, empirically rich, and theoretically innovative work that deepens our understanding of China's environmental policy processes in Xi Jinping Era.

Lianjiang Li, Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration,?University of Hong Kong

China scholars have not stopped trying to understand the country's policy process in the Xi Jinping era. This excellently researched book provides profound insight into the complex local implementation of national policy guidelines, using waste separation as a case study. It sheds light on the limited steering capacities of the central government and the ongoing challenges of efficiently implementing policies in contemporary China.

Gunter Schubert, Professor of Greater China Studies at the Department of Chinese Studies,?Tuebingen University, Germany

1. Introduction  2. Environmental Governance in China  3. MSW Eco-Management: A Cycle of Policy Trials and Failures  4. Central Steering in Policy Formulation  5. Local Steering in Policy Mobilisation  6. Policy Implementation: Minimum Compliance  7. Change Amid Continuity

This book examines environmental governance in China during the Xi Jinping era.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book uses the eco-transformation of waste management as a case study to reveal how central authorities exert political pressure to enforce national policy visions, while local governments frequently resort to minimum compliló;