An implementation assessment of China's Environmental Information Disclosure Decree

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	An implementation assessment of China's Environmental Information Disclosure Decree
	Zhang, Lei ; Mol, Arthur P. J. ; He, Guizhen ; Lu, Yonglong
刊名	JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-CHINA
	2010
卷号	22 期号:10 页码:1649-1656
关键词	environmental information disclosure environmental governance
中文摘要	China's 2007 Open Government Information Regulations is widely considered as a milestone in the country's information policy history and is praised as a "sunshine program". The Environmental Information Disclosure Decree was the first to operationalize these general regulations into a sectoral information disclosure system on environment. This study assessed the implementation of the environmental information disclosure system about six months after the Decree took effect on May 1, 2008. Through reviewing the websites of all 31 provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus and the Ministry of Environmental Protection, conducting an experiment with actual information disclosure request, and through interviews with all provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus, this article concluded that the implementation of the environmental information disclosure system still falls short. Future improvements should focus on further publicity of the regulations and decree to enhance public participation, the establishment of an independent evaluation and supervision system for information disclosure, the exchange of experiences and best practices among provincial Environmental Protection Bureaus, and on strengthening the legal status of environmental information disclosure.
WOS记录号	WOS:000283473000025
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/20950]
专题	生态环境研究中心_城市与区域生态国家重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Lei,Mol, Arthur P. J.,He, Guizhen,et al. An implementation assessment of China's Environmental Information Disclosure Decree[J]. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-CHINA,2010,22(10):1649-1656.
APA	Zhang, Lei,Mol, Arthur P. J.,He, Guizhen,&Lu, Yonglong.(2010).An implementation assessment of China's Environmental Information Disclosure Decree.JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-CHINA,22(10),1649-1656.
MLA	Zhang, Lei,et al."An implementation assessment of China's Environmental Information Disclosure Decree".JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-CHINA 22.10(2010):1649-1656.