Nature Environment and Pollution Technology

Rixin Cai ¹

Affiliations
1 College of History and Ethnic Culture, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, CN

Abstract

Industrialization and urbanization have promoted the rapid development of China’s economy. However, the site contamination, environmental and health damage, and the government’s ecological responsibility supervision have become hot topics in the society in recent years. This study selects Liaoning province of China to further analyse the local governments’ ecological responsibility in treating contaminated sites. Moreover, the ecological responsibility of foreign governments in the treatment of contaminated sites is summarized, the characteristics of site contamination are analysed, and the functional localization of local governments in the treatment is clarified. Finally, the paths for local governments to realize the ecological administrative responsibility in the treatment process are pointed out. Research results show that site contamination is characterized by concealment, lag, accumulation, difficulty of repair and complexity. In the treatment process, local governments have two roles, namely: (1) as the public service provider; and (2) as the restorer and redeveloper in the contaminated site treatment. This study suggests the establishment of the perfect treatment laws for contaminated sites, acceleration of the law system construction, strengthening of the responsibility supervision and accountability mechanisms, implementation of the administrative accountability system, improvement of external supervision means, encouragement of the public to participate in environmental contamination control, formulation of environmental management measures in contaminated sites, and regulation of contaminated site treatment market to encourage the local governments to fulfil and implement the ecological responsibility during the treatment of the contaminated sites. This research provides a reference value for the discussion in the dominant role and ecological responsibility of the local governments in the remediation and redevelopment of contaminated sites and the establishment of an effective remediation mechanism.

Keywords

Site Contamination, Ecological Responsibility, Local Government, Liaoning Province.

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