1. Power politics in the revision of China's Environmental Protection Law.
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Zhang, Lei, He, Guizhen, Mol, ArthurP.J., and Zhu, Xiao
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ENVIRONMENTAL law ,LAW reform ,POLITICAL opposition ,CHINA. Ministry of Environmental Protection ,ENVIRONMENTAL agencies ,TRANSPARENCY in government ,ENVIRONMENTALISM ,ENVIRONMENTAL quality - Abstract
The article discusses the results of the authors' analyses of the environmental politics related to a 2011 revision of China's Environmental Protection Law (EPL). Topics include the growing openness, debates, and protests over environmental conflicts in China, the internal governmental resistance to the introduction of the EPL in 1989 by officials within various ministries and commissions concerned that the EPL would affect their administrative power, sectoral ministries, and commissions, revision of the EPL amid growing concern about environmental quality, and the role of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and lower level Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs).
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- 2013
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