Vertical supervision is an important institutional arrangement designed to overcome the
challenges of environmental governance and promotion of green development in the region …

Air pollution has caused serious consequences, and improving air quality has become a
major global challenge. The environmental improvement of a healthy city is widely …

Building a marine ecological security shelter (MESS) has become the main strategy to adapt
marine ecological threats in China. As China's marine policy lacks a robust framework …

In the “full world” where natural capital is scarce, within the limits of the ecological
environment, the improvement of welfare is a fundamental requirement for sustainable …

Abstract China has established Pilot Free Trade Zones (PFTZs) since 2013. However, there
have been limited studies concerning the green economic effects of this policy. Given the …

China's local environmental protection agencies are the basic government units that
implement the country's environmental regulations. Initiated decades ago, the vertical …

Existing studies have focused on the impact of innovation on carbon emission performance
but ignore the importance of government support for innovation. To overcome this challenge …

The impact of Chinese-style fiscal decentralization on regional energy intensity has long
been disputed by the supporters of “federal environmentalism” and those who hold “race to …

Water resource management, as a foundation for supporting sustainable urban
development, has garnered increasing attention from scholars. Developing effective water …

This research examines the influence of political system changes, particularly official
turnover, on pollution reduction in Chinese industrial firms—a response to the environmental …