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- Analysis of the Legal Governance Status and Improvement Measures of Smog Pollution Control in China
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1 Law School, Anyang Normal University, Anyang, Henan, 455000, CN
1 Law School, Anyang Normal University, Anyang, Henan, 455000, CN
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Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, Vol 15, No 2 (2016), Pagination: 543-548Abstract
Exacerbating smog weather has been considered a major environmental problem threatening China's sustainable development. As such, the Chinese government has initiated environmental efforts to solve this problem. Smog pollution can be legally managed by improving environmental protection standards, increasing environmental illegal costs, and enhancing the construction of environmental responsibility mechanisms. This paper focuses on the legislation status of smog pollution control at national and regional levels and analyses the limitations of the current legal measures. Legal strategies on smog pollution control are proposed on the basis of governance standards, pollution detection, legal liability, and public participation. Results indicate that many laws in China have recognized smog pollution and provided legal governance action plans and local regulations corresponding to national guidelines. Nevertheless, smog pollution control is associated with several problems, including outdated legislative philosophy, inefficient prevention and treatment policy planning, and enterprises' insufficient social responsibility. Therefore, relevant policy suggestions are proposed in this study on the basis of four aspects: enhancing the evaluation system conforming to ecological civilization construction requirements; comprehensive promotion of emission trading system; improving public participation system; and building smog monitoring and early warning mechanisms. This study provides a basis for the proper determination of legal regulation status and smog-related problems in China and for the development of updated legal governance measures.Keywords
Smog Pollution, Legal Governance, Public Participation, Improvement Measures.Full Text
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1 Law School, China Anyang Normal University, Anyang, Henan, 455000, CN
1 Law School, China Anyang Normal University, Anyang, Henan, 455000, CN
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Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, Vol 15, No 3 (2016), Pagination: 887-893Abstract
Haze pollution has been effectively controlled through the vigorous implementation of China's measures for energy conservation and emission reduction in recent years. However, China's industrial development level and energy utilization rate remain low, and this condition seriously affects the efficiency of energy conservation and emission reduction. As a consequence, the desired effect of haze pollution control is not achieved. This study aims to analyse the current situation of China's haze pollution, explore the internal function mechanism of energy conservation, emission reduction, and haze pollution control, effectively identify the key links of energy conservation and emission reduction work, and effectively control haze pollution. Statistical data on China's haze pollution from 2000 to 2013 are collected to analyse the current situation and regional distribution of haze pollution. The current problems of energy conservation and emission reduction are identified, the intrinsic functional relationship among energy conservation, emission reduction, and haze pollution is clarified, and policy measures to control China's haze pollution are proposed from the perspective of energy conservation and emission reduction. Results indicate that China suffers from serious haze pollution, and the overall presentation area is imbalanced. Haze governance is mainly affected by five factors, namely, the government's lack of incentives to promote the development of energy technologies, the energy resource structure that is mainly based on high coal consumption, heavy industries that account for an excessively large portion of the industrial structure, the traffic transport structure characterized by high motor ownership, and the large amount of dust in construction sites during the urbanization process. Implementing energy conservation and emission reduction can effectively alleviate haze pollution. The findings of this research are highly significant because they provide full understanding of China's haze pollution level, promote the effectiveness of controlling haze pollution through energy conservation and emission reduction, and help achieve coordination between economic and environmental development.Keywords
Energy Conservation, Emission Reduction, Haze Pollution.Full Text
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