A New Environmental Protection Law, Many Old Problems? Challenges to Environmental Governance in China

Zhang, Bo; Cao, Cong; Gu, Junzhan; Liu, Ting

doi:10.1093/jel/eqw014

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A New Environmental Protection Law, Many Old Problems? Challenges to Environmental Governance in China

Published in Journal of Environmental Law • Jul 1, 2016

Authors:

Bo Zhang

Cong Cao

Junzhan Gu

Abstract

Through a three-year revision involving various stakeholders, China has enacted a new Environmental Protection Law ( EPL ). The new law seeks to harmonize economic and social development with environmental protection and for the first time establishes clear requirements for the construction of an ec...

Subject

Environmental governance

China

Environmental law

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