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  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,643 Views
19 Pages

With rapid economic development, the protection of the ecological environment has become very important. The modernization of rural ecological governance is the basis and prerequisite for the sustainable economic and social development of vast rural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,075 Views
13 Pages

In order to further improve the satisfaction of public health safety, this paper discusses the impact of government governance on the satisfaction of regional public health safety and discusses the effectiveness of government public health governance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,357 Views
18 Pages

9 October 2021

The governance of the global marine ecological environment is closely related to human life and needs to adopt a multisubject co-governance system. There is a lack of understanding of the need for co-governance by multiple subjects for global marine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,561 Views
19 Pages

12 June 2023

The implementation plan of the National Ecological Civilization Pilot Zone (Jiangxi) is an experimental policy aimed at exploring the path of ecological value realization, optimizing industrial structure, and ultimately promoting the green economic d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,028 Views
14 Pages

14 January 2022

China’s management of marine ecological environments has experienced a development process that has gone from weak to strong. However, whether there are problems such as lack of systems, invalid systems, and system conflicts in the current mana...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,599 Views
22 Pages

8 February 2024

Under integrated ecological and green development in the Yangtze River Delta, the regional ecology is adversely affected by ineffective synergistic governance. Regional environmental governance is a collaborative process involving multiple stakeholde...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,920 Views
15 Pages

The Evolution of the Collaborative Environmental Governance Network in Guizhou Province, China

  • Zhanjie Wang,
  • Yongfeng Ma,
  • Shasha Wang,
  • Chaoliang Luo and
  • Yongjian Wang

24 June 2023

China has successively set goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, aiming to transform to a green and low-carbon economy. Collaborative environmental governance (CEG) is an important way to achieve this transformation. To improve collaborative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,473 Views
13 Pages

In modern society, law is one of the most important means of risk prevention and control. Under the challenge of ecological and environmental risks, China’s legal governance experience provides important historical experience and theoretical sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,200 Views
24 Pages

Despite the great economic growth and fast urbanization process in the past four decades, China is now suffering severely from environmental pollution. Local governments’ industrial land supply behaviors have a great impact on local investment,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,701 Views
17 Pages

6 January 2023

The global novel coronavirus pandemic has caused a surge in the use of masks worldwide. A large number of used masks that have not been properly handled enter the environment, which caused and will cause serious ecological problems. The purpose of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
356 Views
26 Pages

21 December 2025

The quality of the living environment is a critical determinant of residents’ health and urban sustainability. To mitigate the environmental pollution induced by the traditional urbanization model, China launched the New-Type Urbanization Pilot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,613 Views
18 Pages

19 December 2018

As national policy implementers and regional development planners, local government managers have a clearer, more objective and comprehensive understanding of ecological changes than herdsmen. Thus, they have a significant impact on the sustainable d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,825 Views
14 Pages

14 April 2022

Energy and the environment are important foundations for sustainable economic development. In order to realize the sustainable development of energy economy, clarify the respective responsibilities of the government and enterprises, and explore the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,176 Views
17 Pages

16 September 2023

Improving the landscape- and village-integrated green governance (LVIGE) is currently a problem faced by various countries. China has also put forward the revitalization strategy of “rural development, the environment is the background color&rd...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,212 Views
33 Pages

With the rapid development of China’s economy, resource consumption and environmental pollution have become challenges faced by China in its development process. In order to effectively achieve a balance between economic development and ecologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,660 Views
18 Pages

16 August 2022

Horizontal ecological compensation is an important institutional innovation to promote ecological civilization and is the main functional area strategy in China under the current management mechanism. In this paper, we use contract theory to analyze...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,052 Views
18 Pages

Numerous countries actively consider the human settlement environment and have implemented rural governance strategies to ameliorate the living conditions of rural dwellers. The construction of a rural human settlement environment is an important goa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,246 Views
23 Pages

26 September 2019

Just as its general theoretical foundation does, the quantitative evaluation of ecological governance does not have a sound research compilation. This study aims to construct the ecological governance evaluation model and determine the indicator weig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,678 Views
21 Pages

17 February 2023

In recent years, ecological environmental problems such as the greenhouse effect, soil erosion, climate change, and biodiversity reduction have become more and more salient, and ecological environmental quality has gradually become a research hotspot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,268 Views
18 Pages

17 May 2023

Enhancing residents’ happiness is a fundamental goal of development and a priority for government action. This article conducts a theoretical analysis of the impact of the ecological environment and income level on residents’ happiness an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,586 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2025

The ecological governance system has made significant progress in information technology construction, and digitization has become an important driving force in the construction of this system. This article delves into the digital construction path o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,866 Views
21 Pages

17 July 2020

Since the late 1980s, the idea of sustainable development has been gaining widespread recognition as a guiding framework for policies on development and the environment. However, the concept of sustainable development has received a number of critici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,111 Views
19 Pages

22 March 2025

The Kuye River Basin, as an extremely important tributary of the Yellow River Basin, assessing its ecological environment’s response to human activities and natural environmental changes is of utmost importance. This can provide a critical refe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,217 Views
19 Pages

Economic Development, Fiscal Ecological Compensation, and Ecological Environment Quality

  • Hongjie Cao,
  • Meina Li,
  • Fengqin Qin,
  • Yankun Xu,
  • Li Zhang and
  • Zhifeng Zhang

Focusing on the exploration of the important role of fiscal ecological compensation in green development, this paper incorporates fiscal ecological compensation into the analytical framework of green development. Based on samples of data from county...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,435 Views
18 Pages

12 January 2023

Flowing water resources and relatively fixed regional segmentation form a governance problem. The essence of horizontal collaborative governance is the establishment of coordination and cooperation processes between different independent and decentra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,892 Views
19 Pages

Ecological poverty alleviation launched by the Chinese government is an innovative green development measure that combines targeted poverty alleviation with ecological protection to realize the ecological environmental protection and income growth of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,753 Views
16 Pages

2 April 2019

The Chinese government is committed to sustainability governance to alleviate the shortage of energy and the imbalance between ecological environment and economic development. This paper evaluates and analyzes the sustainability governance performanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,064 Views
13 Pages

The performance of the regional water environment integrated governance is affected by many factors. This study took place in Henan Province, China, as the research area, and constructed an index system through the comprehensive consideration of thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,931 Views
18 Pages

Investigating the Relationship between Economic Growth, Institutional Environment and Sulphur Dioxide Emissions

  • Xiaohua Hou,
  • Bo Cheng,
  • Zhiliang Xia,
  • Haijun Zhou,
  • Qi Shen,
  • Yanjie Lu,
  • Ehsan Nazemi and
  • Guodao Zhang

6 March 2023

In order to promote ecological sustainability, the issue of sulphur dioxide emissions is of increasing interest to researchers. Majority of the current research, however, focuses on the relationship between sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions, foreign di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,283 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2025

In recent years, with rapid economic development, the importance of environmental governance has gradually been overlooked. The increasing pollution caused by rural sewage discharge has posed a significant threat to the local ecological environment....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,333 Views
15 Pages

Environmental degradation and ecological devastation have become widespread global concerns in recent years as a result of the expansion of the international economy. China’s rapid economic development has been accompanied by a sloppy economic...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,362 Views
25 Pages

3 April 2022

As a vital method to resolve conflicts between water use in upstream and downstream areas and solve the problem of transboundary water pollution, watershed ecological compensation is widely used worldwide. It is necessary to analyze the influencing f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,503 Views
25 Pages

31 August 2020

Ecological environment evaluation is of great significance to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and promote the harmonious development of economy, society, and environment. To evaluate environmental SDGs, single environmental indicator...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,930 Views
27 Pages

4 June 2024

Based on panel data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2019 to 2023, the synergistic effects of the digital economy, green technology innovation, and ecological environment quality were analyzed. First, using the entropy method, the measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,682 Views
34 Pages

17 November 2024

Green innovation provides powerful incentives to achieve sustained social progress. However, the available research examines the financial drivers of green innovation, overlooking the impact of digital government development and the institutional env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,680 Views
18 Pages

28 October 2016

This article presents a social-ecological resilience assessment and attempts to explicitly examine the impacts of urbanization on resilience, with a view to explore how to strengthen social-ecological governance of the resilience of urban ecosystems....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,019 Views
20 Pages

25 November 2022

Ecological damage in mining areas largely affects the regional ecological environment and ecological security. In China, ecological restoration in mining areas is urgent, as its environmental protection lags behind economic and social development. Re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,632 Views
19 Pages

Assessment of the Impact of Road Construction on the Ecological Environment

  • Ziyu Wang,
  • Hongmin Zhou,
  • Huawei Wan,
  • Peirong Shi,
  • Chen Li,
  • Jinlin Qi and
  • Ruojing Fang

28 November 2024

In recent years, China has made remarkable progress in infrastructure construction, which has greatly contributed to the development of the regional economy. However, the impacts of construction on the ecological environment are of increasing concern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,820 Views
22 Pages

27 March 2023

Promoting green development and promoting harmonious coexistence between humans and nature are strategic tasks for the construction of ecological civilization in China in the new era. Currently, the growing environmental governance investment in Chin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,893 Views
28 Pages

Chinese-Style Fiscal Decentralization, Ecological Attention of Government, and Regional Energy Intensity

  • Mingxiong Bi,
  • Chencheng Wang,
  • Dian Fu,
  • Xun Tan,
  • Shurong Yu,
  • Junbai Pan and
  • Kun Lv

10 November 2022

The impact of Chinese-style fiscal decentralization on regional energy intensity has long been disputed by the supporters of “federal environmentalism” and those who hold “race to the bottom” views. At the same time, with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,538 Views
25 Pages

22 November 2024

Ecological environmental governance is not only a crucial aspect of the urbanization process, but also a key factor for achieving coordinated development between regional economies and the environment. This study utilizes a multi-regional Computable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,458 Views
22 Pages

28 May 2022

Functional zoning provides a basis for establishing a regional development layout with clear functions, reasonable division of labor, and complementary advantages. In the process of urban development, a large number of behaviors such as occupying eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
454 Views
27 Pages

28 December 2025

In the current context, where global ecological governance overly relies on technological intervention while neglecting the role of social and cultural resources, intangible cultural heritage (ICH), as a carrier of traditional ecological wisdom, is f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,413 Views
25 Pages

18 August 2024

The issue of black-odorous water (BOW) represents a formidable challenge to the current aquatic ecosystems, and its governance exhibits characteristics of low efficiency, susceptibility to relapse, and fragmented management under the Central Environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,308 Views
15 Pages

24 February 2022

People’s demands for a better environment have become increasingly strong, and the construction of ecological civilization has risen to the national level of strategic decision making. This paper studies the relationship between city ecological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,105 Views
23 Pages

25 July 2024

As an important incentive and constraint system to coordinate the contradiction between ecological resource protection and regional economic development, the ecological and environmental protection effect after its implementation deserves special att...

  • Article
  • Open Access
317 Citations
24,315 Views
12 Pages

13 July 2017

The Anthropocene is characterized by rapid global change, necessitating adaptive governance. But how can such adaptive governance be operationalized? The article offers a three-point argument to approach this question. First, people and environment n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,349 Views
14 Pages

5 February 2024

With the continuous advancement of the economy, the issues of resource scarcity and environmental damage are becoming increasingly severe. For example, in terms of water resources, the problems of environmental pollution and ecological imbalance in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,548 Views
19 Pages

2 September 2022

The water environment quality is not high, the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources is uneven, and the water quality-induced water is in shortage in the world. Strengthening the construction of water ecological civilization is one of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,350 Views
14 Pages

6 January 2022

In this paper, we present a framework for the analysis of shock and conflict in social-ecological systems and investigate the implications of this perspective for the understanding of environmental governance, particularly its evolutionary patterns a...

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