Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 277, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111470
Keywords
Environmental governance; Three-year action plan to Win the blue sky defense war; Air quality; Regression discontinuity design
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Funding
- Social Science Planning Project of Anhui Province [AHSKZ2019D018]
- Anhui Research Center for Ecological and Economic Development [AHST2019017]
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This article evaluates the governance effect of the Chinese government's Three-year Action Plan to Win the Blue Sky Defense War using regression discontinuity design. The study found a significant reduction in PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations, with a more prominent effect in the Jing-Jin-Ji region.
Improving air quality is an era task for China to transform its economic development model and enhance its environmental governance capabilities. This article take the Chinese government's Three-year Action Plan to Win the Blue Sky Defense War (abbreviated as the Blue Sky Defense War) as a quasi-natural experiment and use regression discontinuity design (RDD) to evaluate the governance effect of this policy. The study found that the Blue Sky Defense War reduced the monthly average concentration of PM2.5 and PM10 in cities by 14.49 and 23.43, respectively. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the Blue Sky Defence War has a more prominent effect on urban air quality management based on PM10 assessment; Jing-Jin-Ji region and surrounding areas are the key points to ensure the achievement of air management. Consistent and effective environmental governance policies, transparent and timely information disclosure and structural adjustment are all powerful guarantees for the effectiveness of the Blue Sky Defense War. These research conclusions provide new ideas for developing countries to formulate practical environmental pollution control policies.
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