An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Decentralization on Environmental Governance in China

Abstract

Environmental problems are particularly prominent in the context of carbon neutrality. The root cause of the environmental dilemma lies in the system. Therefore, this article discusses whether China is an environmental federalist country based on the perspective of environmental management system changes, and portrays China based on the two dimensions of environmental management system and fiscal decentralization. Changes in the system of environmental decentralization. With the help of environmental affairs responsibilities, the overall environmental decentralization is divided into administrative decentralization, monitoring decentralization, and supervision decentralization. The number of environmental protection agencies and the coverage of environmental protection agencies are used to calculate the Chinese-style environmental decentralization index during 1993-2015. The current environment in the western region Decentralization is still at a relatively low level. Through empirical analysis, the results show that the level of environmental governance is negatively correlated with environmental decentralization, which reflects the strengthening of the degree of centralization under the framework of environmental decentralization in China, such as the implementation of vertical management reform of environmental protection agencies, which will further improve local governments. Environmental governance level.