Environmental Policy and Rural Industrial Development in China
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چکیده
China’s environmental policy emphasizes the use of economic instruments. By levying a fee for discharges, the government hopes to internalize environmental costs associated with production and consumption. This policy has been working relatively well in the urban areas, but faces a grave challenge in the rural areas where there has been a development of rural industries on a massive scale since the late 1970s. Polluting industries scattered in villages pose a major threat to the rural environment. The dispersedness of rural industries and the insufficiency of environmental monitoring have become major obstacles for the implementation of environmental legislation. Based on a field study in Qinshan town in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, this study discusses limitations in the implementation of China’s environmental laws in combating industrial pollution in the rural areas.
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