PAST EVENT

China’s Environmental NGOs and Public Policy: Three Case Studies

Seminar
Series: Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS)
Open to the Public - CGIS - 1730 Cambridge St., S250
June 23, 2009
12:15-2:00 p.m.

Description:

Professor Xu will examine the role of China's environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during public policy implementation by introducing three cases: the Yuanmingyuan anti-seepage project, the Xiamen PX project, and the Nu River dam project. He will use resource dependence theory to analyze environmental policy and the environmental movement in China. Professor Xu separates the Chinese environmental movement into three stages according to three dimensions: government relations, resource mobilization capability, and organizational-level activities. He asserts that environmental NGOs have played a leading role in promoting a more scientific and democratic government environmental decision-making in China. He raises issues such as the lack of openness and participation in the government policy-making, which leads to lower efficiency in policy implementation and difficulties in achieving consensus with the public.
Jialiang Xu received his PhD in politics from Peking University in 2002, and an MA in politics from Fudan University. His fields of interest include government regulation, public policy, civil society, environmental NGOs, government-society relations, and local governance.

Summer Guest Series
Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Contact:

Harvard East Asia Society
Ben Robbins, Co-President, HEAS
Email: brobbins@fas.harvard.edu
Phone: 978-807-2070