What waste are you- Analyzing 46 pilot cities’ MSW management program from the perspective of authoritarian environmentalism
(2021) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM02 20211LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
- Abstract
- The problem of growing waste and its management is global. The Chinese central government has tried several municipal solid waste (MSW) management pilot programs, but few of them succeeded. In this case study, the 2017 program applied the Target Responsibility System (TRS) to incentive 46 pilot cities to implement the specific requirements by the end of 2020.This thesis analyzes the heterogeneity of the material from both the central government andlocal governments through the theoretical scope of authoritarian environmentalism. Without enough clear harmonized strategy between the outputs and
implementation, the results show that unclear definition, unreasonable targets and short-term oriented evaluation system can lead to poor... (More) - The problem of growing waste and its management is global. The Chinese central government has tried several municipal solid waste (MSW) management pilot programs, but few of them succeeded. In this case study, the 2017 program applied the Target Responsibility System (TRS) to incentive 46 pilot cities to implement the specific requirements by the end of 2020.This thesis analyzes the heterogeneity of the material from both the central government andlocal governments through the theoretical scope of authoritarian environmentalism. Without enough clear harmonized strategy between the outputs and
implementation, the results show that unclear definition, unreasonable targets and short-term oriented evaluation system can lead to poor implementation. In this respect, a more sustainable and reasonable TRS and a long-term oriented evaluation system are suggested to the future environmental governance. (Less)
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- author
- Tang, Run LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MESM02 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Sustainability Science, target responsibility system, China, Municipal solid waste
- publication/series
- Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
- report number
- 2021:035
- language
- English
- id
- 9048565
- date added to LUP
- 2021-06-04 09:18:34
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