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| An implementation assessment of China’s Environmental Information Disclosure Decree | |
| 作者姓名： | Lei Zhang Arthur P. J Mol Guizhen He Yonglong Lu |
| 作者单位： | Lei Zhang(School of Environment and Natural Resources,Renmin University of China,Beijing 100872,China;Environmental Policy Group,Wageningen University,Hollandseweg 1,6706 KN,Wageningen,The Netherlands);Arthur P.J Mol(Environmental Policy Group,Wageningen University,Hollandseweg 1,6706 KN,Wageningen,The Netherlands);Guizhen He,Yonglong Lu(State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology,Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100085,China) |
| 基金项目： | This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program (973) of China (No. 2007CB407307), the National Key Project of Scientific and Technical Supporting Program (No. 2008BAC32B07), the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 10CDP030). |
| 摘 要： | China’s 2007 Open Government Information Regulations is widely considered as a milestone in the country’s information policy
history and is praised as a “sunshine program”. The Environmental Information Disclosure Decree was the first to operationalize
these general regulations into a sectoral information disclosure system on environment. This study assessed the implementation of the
environmental information disclosure system about six months after the Decree took e ect on May 1, 2008. Through reviewing the
websites of all 31 provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus and the Ministry of Environmental Protection, conducting an experiment
with actual information disclosure request, and through interviews with all provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus, this article
concluded that the implementation of the environmental information disclosure system still falls short. Future improvements should
focus on further publicity of the regulations and decree to enhance public participation, the establishment of an independent evaluation
and supervision system for information disclosure, the exchange of experiences and best practices among provincial Environmental
Protection Bureaus, and on strengthening the legal status of environmental information disclosure. |
| 收稿时间： | 20 October 2009 |
| 修稿时间： | 23 December 2009 |
An implementation assessment of China's Environmental Information Disclosure Decree |
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| Lei Zhang,Arthur P. J Mol,Guizhen He,Yonglong Lu.An implementation assessment of China's Environmental Information Disclosure Decree[J].Journal of Environmental Sciences,2010,22(10):1649-1656. | |
| Authors: | Lei Zhang Arthur P J Mol Guizhen He and Yonglong Lu |
| Institution: | 1. School of Environment and Natural Resources,Renmin University of China,Beijing 100872,China;Environmental Policy Group,Wageningen University,Hollandseweg 1,6706 KN,Wageningen,The Netherlands 2. Environmental Policy Group,Wageningen University,Hollandseweg 1,6706 KN,Wageningen,The Netherlands 3. State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology,Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100085,China |
| Abstract: | China's 2007 Open Government Information Regulations is widely considered as a milestone in the country's information policy history and is praised as a "sunshine program".The Environmental Information Disclosure Decree was the first to operationalize these general regulations into a sectoral information disclosure system on environment.This study assessed the implementation of the environmental information disclosure system about six months after the Decree took effect on May 1,2008.Through reviewing the websites of all 31 provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus and the Ministry of Environmental Protection,conducting an experiment with actual information disclosure request,and through interviews with all provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus,this article concluded that the implementation of the environmental information disclosure system still falls short.Future improvements should focus on further publicity of the regulations and decree to enhance public participation,the establishment of an independent evaluation and supervision system for information disclosure,the exchange of experiences and best practices among provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus,and on strengthening the legal status of environmental information disclosure. |
| Keywords: | environmental information disclosure environmental governance |
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