Environmental Governance: Community-Based

Author: Tao Chuanjin
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Concern for the environment and concern for the community are the two core themes of this book. Placing these two core concepts together promotes in-depth analysis and refinement of each. Community self-governance holds significant advantages in environmental governance, especially in preventing environmental contagion, but we have not fully utilized the strengths of the community. The relationship between environmental private interests and public interests, and the advantages and limitations of the community relative to the government and the market, as well as the temporal dilemma of resource use and its reflection of competition, development, and material desires, all become indispensable components in analyzing environmental issues. Concern for the environment and concern for the community are the two core themes of this book. The book is divided into four parts. The first part raises questions, discussing the relationship between environmental governance and community cooperation, as well as the incentive structure of environmental governance; the second part primarily elucidates community cooperation in environmental governance, proposing the conditions necessary for successful governance; the third part explores the incentive structure for community environmental protection, focusing on the modern market economy's destructive impact on resources, as well as the community governance under two different scenarios of environmental public and private interests; the fourth part presents the author's reflections on community-based environmental governance. This book is one of the outcomes of the Ministry of Education project "Research on the Current Status, Characteristics, and Cultivation Mechanisms of China's Grassroots Environmental Protection Forces." The author conducts a scientific analysis of numerous cases, emphasizing the greatest advantages of the community in environmental governance.