China's Emerging Ecosystem Law: From Characteristics to Implementation Research
Huiyu Zhao & Y. Jun Xu
What the paper says
As China continues to enhance its ecological civilization, emerging ecosystem laws have arisen. This paper aims to explore the characteristics of China’s emerging ecosystem laws as well as their practical application and challenges. The research focuses on two main backgrounds of these laws - the ecological civilization ideology that led to their emergence, and their legislative phases. This study primarily revolves around the legal characteristics and implementation challenges of the emerging ecosystem laws, recognizing the considerable innovation in legislating for large-scale ecosystems in China. The main challenge lies in the need for novel administrative and judicial coordination mechanisms across administrative regions and the detailed implementation of specific rules and regulations. By comparing these ecosystem laws to the legislation and governance of five representative large river basins in the United States, the research concludes that China’s emerging ecosystem laws are not fundamentally different from the watershed management laws and governance in the US. However, there is innovation in laws regarding other ecosystem types, such as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The key focus should be on coordinating current cross-administrative regional governance and judicial collaboration and innovating large-scale environmental regulatory measures to enhance the effectiveness of such laws in China.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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