Environmental Studies and Research Papers about China 

 [ Water and Air Pollution  | Government Policy | Other Environmental Challenges  ]

• Surviving Success: Policy Reform and the Future of Industrial Pollution in China (1997) -- http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/survive/index.htm -- Focuses on two major determinants of changes in the pollution intensity (or pollution per unit of output) of industry: General economic reforms, and China’s pollution charge system. Using their econometric equations for forecasting, the authors develop three future pollution scenarios under varying assumptions about policies during the next two decades.
• How the Chinese System of Charges and Subsidies Affects Pollution Control Efforts by China's Top Industrial Polluters (1999) -- http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/wps2198.htm -- China's unique combination of emissions charges and pollution abatement subsidies has given China's most heavily polluting industrial firms incentive to invest in pollution abatement.
• Citizen Complaints As Environmental Indicators: Evidence From China  (1996) -- http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/compwp/index.htm -- Are complaints a good substitute for direct monitoring?
• Industrial environmental performance in China: The impact of inspections (1999) -- http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/china/China_inspection.htm -- explores the impact of inspections on the environmental performance of polluters in China, including the potential impact of pollution charges and citizens’ complaints.
• Endogenous Enforcement and Effectiveness of China's Pollution Levy System -- http://econ.worldbank.org/view.php?topic=11&type=5&id=1090 (2000) -- there is considerable scope for using economic instruments to reduce China's industrial pollution problems
• Pollution Charge, Community Pressure and Abatement Cost: an Analysis of Chinese Industries (2000) -- http://econ.worldbank.org/view.php?topic=11&type=5&id=1091 -- Community pressure may be as strong an incentive for industrial firms to control pollution in China as pollution levies are
• Incomplete Enforcement of Pollution Regulation: Bargaining Power of Chinese Factories (2001) -- http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/china/Incomplete
  EnforcementofPollutionRegulation.htm -- analysis of the determinants of the relative bargaining power that firms may have in their relation with local environmental authorities pertaining to the enforcement of pollution charges.
• China Case Study - Analysis of National Strategies for Sustainable Development -  http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2004/measure_sdsip_china.pdf - June 2004
• See also: Chinese Government Environmental Policy - Research and Analysis Links

• China: Managing Environmental Challenges, Video Footage of Urban Environment Issues in the Chinese Context -- http://www.worldbank.org/nipr/china/video/index.htm -- web-viewable video from the World Bank
• A Decade of Reform - Science and Technology Policy in China --  http://www.idrc.ca/books/815/index.html -- on-line book focuses on five themes -- basic research, the high-technology sector, traditional state-owned enterprises, agricultural research and rural development, and environmental and social development -- and presents a description of China's S&T institutions and a brief history of the reforms to the S&T sector. 
• China Environment Series 5 --  http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?
  topic_id=1421&fuseaction=topics.publications&group_id=16288 -- CES 5 provides articles, commentaries, and meeting summaries that examine environmental and energy challenges facing China; it also explores creative ideas and opportunities for governmental and nongovernmental (NGO) cooperation. (2002)