Chinese environmental law / Yuhong Zhao.

China has industrialized and urbanized at unprecedented scale and speed since its economic take-off began in the 1980s. It has become the world's second largest economy, but pollution has pushed the environment to the limits of its carrying capacity. Chinese Environmental Law provides a compreh...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Zhao, Yuhong (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • Detailed Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Author's Note
  • Contents
  • Translation
  • Online Resources
  • Footnote Citations
  • Tables of Statutes and Other Legal Instruments
  • Abbreviations
  • Table of Weight and Measures
  • Table of Statutes
  • Table of Regulations and Measures
  • State Council Regulations and Opinions
  • Administrative Measures
  • Table of Judicial Interpretations
  • Table of State Plans and Party Policies
  • Table of Cases
  • SPC Guiding Cases
  • SPP Guiding Cases
  • SPC Model Cases
  • SPP Model Cases
  • Joint SPC and SPP Model Cases
  • Other Cases
  • Table of Treaties
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Abbreviations of Legal Instruments
  • 1 Environmental Problems and Legal Responses
  • 1.1 China's Environmental Crisis
  • 1.1.1 Air Pollution
  • 1.1.2 The Water Crisis: Water Pollution and Water Shortage
  • 1.1.3 Soil Contamination
  • 1.1.4 The Waste Problem
  • 1.1.5 The Cost of Pollution
  • 1.2 Sources of Environmental Law
  • 1.2.1 Chinese Constitution
  • 1.2.2 Environmental Statutes
  • 1.2.3 Other Relevant Statutes
  • Civil Law
  • Civil Procedure Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Criminal Law
  • 1.2.4 State Regulations and Administrative Rules
  • 1.2.5 Judicial Interpretations
  • 1.2.6 Local Regulations
  • 1.2.7 International Environmental Treaties
  • 1.3 State and Party Policies and Plans
  • 1.3.1 The Five-Year Plans on National Economic and Social Development
  • 1.3.2 Party Policies Jointly Promulgated with the State Council
  • 2 Key Institutions of Environmental Protection
  • 2.1 People's Congress at National and Local Levels
  • 2.1.1 The NPC and NPCSC
  • 2.1.2 Special Committee: The ENRPC
  • 2.1.3 Lawmaking Process
  • 2.1.4 Supervision of Implementation of Laws
  • 2.1.5 Local People's Congress
  • 2.2 State Council and Local People's Governments
  • 2.2.1 The State Council's Lawmaking Power
  • 2.2.2 Government Environmental Responsibilities
  • 2.2.3 Equal Accountability of Party and Government Leaders
  • 2.2.4 Supervision and Inspection by the Central Authorities
  • 2.3 Environmental Protection Agencies
  • 2.3.1 MEE: A Historical Review
  • 2.3.2 Local Environment Agencies
  • 2.3.3 Environmental Monitoring Stations
  • 2.3.4 Regional Environmental Inspection Bureaus
  • 2.3.5 River Basin Environmental Regulatory Bureaus
  • 2.4 Other Relevant Departments
  • 2.4.1 The NDRC
  • 2.4.2 The MWR
  • 2.4.3 MLR to MNR
  • 2.4.4 The SOA
  • 2.4.5 The MOHURD
  • 2.4.6 MOA to MARA
  • 2.4.7 The GAC
  • 2.4.8 The MPS
  • 2.5 The Courts
  • 2.5.1 Specialized Environmental Tribunals
  • 2.5.2 SPC Judicial Guidance
  • Judicial Interpretation
  • Guiding Cases and Model Cases
  • White Papers
  • 2.5.3 Jurisdiction
  • 2.5.4 Innovation in Adjudication, Judgment and Enforcement of Judgment
  • Combined Adjudication
  • Use of Special Experts in Adjudication
  • Judicial Redress and Enforcement of Judgment
  • 2.5.5 Environmental Caseload
  • 2.6 The Procuratorates