The significance of government in environmental protection
The significance of government in environmental protection
1. Introduction
In the past decades, China has achieved unprecedented economic and social progress, at the same time; China also faces many new challenges, especially increasing environmental issues and depleting resources. Fortunately, Chinese government has put these issues in an important position and makes efforts for sustainable development. This paper takes two cases in China to illustrate the significance of government in environmental protection, one case is government policy about Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (PEIA), and the other case is Comprehensive Improvement Program of Qinhuai River.
2. Government policy about Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (PEIA)
China's environmental protection legislation has experienced the process from scratch to less and to more. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Law of China actualized in 2003 stipulates that the environmental impact assessment have to be done in the planning. Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (PEIA) is a process which analyses, predicts, and estimates the environmental impact caused by the planning bringing into effect, and brings forward the countermeasure and measure of preventing or alleviating bad environmental impact, in the stage of compiling planning.
As a yardstick of sustainability, PEIA can make planning more environmental-friendly and improve compliance with the principles of sustainable development. A key aim of PEIA is to strengthen the capacity to integrate environmental concerns into government planning and implementation. PEIA has been identified in China as playing a key role in achieving a scientific outlook on development and the pursuit of an increasingly harmonious society.
Since the enactment of China's EIA Law many cities have carried out PEIA.
PEIA in China is gradually emerging as an effective tool for preventing and controlling environmental pollution and ecological degradation
1. Introduction
In the past decades, China has achieved unprecedented economic and social progress, at the same time; China also faces many new challenges, especially increasing environmental issues and depleting resources. Fortunately, Chinese government has put these issues in an important position and makes efforts for sustainable development. This paper takes two cases in China to illustrate the significance of government in environmental protection, one case is government policy about Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (PEIA), and the other case is Comprehensive Improvement Program of Qinhuai River.
2. Government policy about Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (PEIA)
China's environmental protection legislation has experienced the process from scratch to less and to more. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Law of China actualized in 2003 stipulates that the environmental impact assessment have to be done in the planning. Planning Environmental Impact Assessment (PEIA) is a process which analyses, predicts, and estimates the environmental impact caused by the planning bringing into effect, and brings forward the countermeasure and measure of preventing or alleviating bad environmental impact, in the stage of compiling planning.
As a yardstick of sustainability, PEIA can make planning more environmental-friendly and improve compliance with the principles of sustainable development. A key aim of PEIA is to strengthen the capacity to integrate environmental concerns into government planning and implementation. PEIA has been identified in China as playing a key role in achieving a scientific outlook on development and the pursuit of an increasingly harmonious society.
Since the enactment of China's EIA Law many cities have carried out PEIA.
PEIA in China is gradually emerging as an effective tool for preventing and controlling environmental pollution and ecological degradation