Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages 473-477Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.11.010
Keywords
Water pollution; Causal chain; Institution; Environmental governance
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71471047, 71390522, 71101036]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [HIT.BRETIII.201208]
- NKBRPC [2014CB340503]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2014M551262]
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The purpose of this paper is to discover the latent causal chain of industrial water pollution in China and find ways to cure the wanton discharge of toxic waste from industries. It draws evidences from the past pollution incidents in China. Through further digging the back interests and relations by analyzing representative cases, extended theory about loophole derivations and causal chain effect is drawn. This theoretical breakthrough reflects deeper causality. Institutional defect instead of human error is confirmed as the deeper reason of frequent outbreaks of water pollution incidents in China. Ways for collaborative environmental governance are proposed. This paper contributes to a better understanding about the deep inducements of industrial water pollution in China, and, is meaningful for ensuring future prevention and mitigation of environmental pollution. It illuminates multiple dimensions for collaborative environmental governance to cure the stubborn problem. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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