Air pollution control is an important link in the construction of ecological civilization, and
government vertical regulatory reform is a key factor affecting air pollution control. This …

The vertical environmental reform in China has led to the change of environmental
management system from territorial management model to vertical management model. This …

Developing a scientific environmental management system is the institutional foundation to
address transboundary environmental governance issues. Based on the perspective of …

Using environmental regulation to control air pollution is one of the essential means to
resolve economic growth bottlenecks and ecological environment constraints. We construct …

This paper selects the key pollutant data of 53 cities in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Yangtze River
Delta and Pearl River Delta from 2004 to 2016, and tests the effect of the joint prevention …

The relationship between fiscal regimes and urban industrial pollution emissions is unclear.
This paper aims to explore the effects and mechanisms of fiscal centralization on urban …

This paper studies how centralizing environmental administration affects air pollution in
China. China launched a reform in 2016 to empower upper-level environmental protection …

Ambient air pollution is an important environmental problem that impacts the health and
sustainable development of human beings. Many measures have been taken by …

In decentralized environmental governance, local governments are likely to adopt the
“beggar-thy-neighbor” strategy to relax regulations at boundaries. This study investigates the …

How decentralization influences environmental governance is vital in tackling environmental
challenges. The literature focuses on whether decentralization is a better choice for …