Open AccessINDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER CONTROL IN CHINESE CITIES: DETERMINANTS OF SUCCESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Author(s) -
Rozelle Scott,
Ma Xiaoying,
Ortolano Leonard
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
natural resource modeling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1939-7445
pISSN - 0890-8575
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-7445.1993.tb00158.x
Subject(s) - pollution , china , control (management) , business , wastewater , government (linguistics) , industrial wastewater treatment , investment (military) , natural resource economics , environmental economics , environmental planning , economic growth , environmental science , economics , environmental engineering , geography , political science , politics , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , management , archaeology , law , biology
The research reported in this paper has three objectives: (1) to examine trends in Chinese industrial wastewater pollution and to describe policies developed to control this pollution; (2) to analyze relationships between the degree of industrial wastewater pollution control and the economic, demographic, and organizational characteristics of major Chinese cities; and (3) to identify factors that determine the success of the government's efforts to control industrial wastewater pollution. The study specifies and econometrically estimates a system of pollution control equations based on a unique data set for 82 Chinese cities from 1985 to 1990. Results demonstrate that the structure of enterprise ownership and investment in environmental management capacity are associated with increases in the effectiveness of wastewater pollution control. The Discharge Permit System, one of China's main strategies for urban environmental protection, appears to have been moderately successful in increasing wastewater treatment, but it has not encouraged enterprise managers to adopt less‐polluting production technology.