Abstract
This paper aims to unearth the ways in which the Chinese government applies policies to govern the marine environment effectively. Co-word analysis, word frequency analysis and multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) were chosen to analyze the evolution of marine environmental policy. This paper focuses on the marine environmental governance policy of China since 1982, takes the five-year plan for marine economic development as the node, divides these policies into five stages: The germination period, the 10th Five-Year Plan period, the 11th Five-Year Plan period, the 12th Five-Year Plan period and the 13th Five-Year Plan period. The evolution characteristics of China’s marine environmental governance policy are analyzed accordingly and include the diversification of participants, changes from ex-post control to ex-ante control, diversification of policy tools, and expansion of governance scope. Finally, we elucidate the challenges regarding the formulation and implementation of China’s marine environmental governance policies in the future.
Highlights
The marine environment has been deteriorating for many years, and restricting the development of the marine economy
The change in marine environmental governance policy reflects the change of the marine environment problem and marine development goals
This paper studies the policy documents directly related to marine environmental governance, such as laws, administrative regulations, departmental rules, normative documents, planning outlines and notices issued at the national level since the promulgation of the “Marine Environment Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China” in 1982
Summary
The marine environment has been deteriorating for many years, and restricting the development of the marine economy. Marine pollution has become a major and common problem across the world [1], attracting the efforts of international organization and economies. The UN is advancing the process of marine environmental governance actively. In 1982, the “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” stipulated the rights and obligations of states to protect the marine environment and take measures to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the oceans. In 1992, “Agenda 21” was devoted to the marine conservation and rational utilization and exploitation of marine resources. In 2016, the United Nations General Assembly adopted “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which specialized setting sustainable development goals in the marine sector, thereby indicating the ways for sustainable development of the marine economy
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