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China's environmental policy: an introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2013

Jintao Xu  and
Peter Berck
Jintao Xu
Affiliation:
National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China. Tel: 86-10-62767629. E-mail: xujt@pku.edu.cn
Peter Berck
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, USA. E-mail: pberck@berkeley.edu
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Abstract

This special issue covers several important aspects of China's environmental policy, ranging from evaluation of government programs (biogas and the Sloping Land Conversion Program) that aim directly to enhance the rural environment, to the reform of natural resource sectors (collective and state forest reforms) that set foundations for the sustainable use of natural resources, and to the impacts of urban environmental policies (including urban transportation management and industrial pollution control policy). We provide an overview of the topic and a brief introduction to each of the contributed papers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Environment and Development Economics , Volume 19 , Special Issue 1: China's Environmental Policy , February 2014 , pp. 1 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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