The Pollution Reduction Effect of Vertical Environmental Management Reform Below the Provincial Level:Evidences from Water Pollution Emissions
The handling of the"Tiao-Kuai"relationship in the administrative management system is important for the performance of environmental governance.In order to solve the problems of insufficient investment and poor effectiveness in envi-ronmental governance by local governments under the territorial management system,the central government has launched a vertical environmental management reform below the provincial level.This article uses water pollution datas to examine the pol-lution reduction effect of this reform.Research has found that the implementation of reforms has effectively promoted the reduction of water pollution emissions,and the impact on western provinces and upstream provinces is more significant.Further mechanism examination found that the reform mainly promoting green development and reducing pollution protection.This paper provide a new perspective for impro-ving the environmental governance,and also provide empirical evidence for evalua-ting the reform of water pollution governance effect.
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