January 2016

40 years’ rural environmental protection in China: Problem evolution, policy response and institutional change

Since 1973, China's rural environmental problems have changed a lot, and many new environmental protection policies were issued in the same time. However, rural environmental protection has not been paid enough attention in a long run. Herein, the evolution of the rural environmental problems and the corresponding environmental policies in the past 40 years in China were firstly discussed based on four stages, that...

Author(s): Dongmei Han and Shuqin Jin