Governing Environmental Conflicts in China

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Cover Page Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Government strategies in environmental conflicts: A governance issue for Chinese local governments Problem statement: environmental conflict as a governance issue in China Problem analysis and knowledge gaps Research relevance Theoretical value: advancing the development of governance theories Methodological relevance: a multi-methodapproach to case study research Practical relevance: providing policy guidelines for the state and insights for practitioners Structure of this book Notes Chapter 2: Government strategies in environmental conflicts: A literature review Introduction Literature-searchstrategy and findings Environmental conflict literature The nature of environmental conflicts Government strategies for environmental conflict resolution Explanation of why particular strategies are applied in environmental conflicts Governance, decision-making,and policy change literature Understanding the nature of conflicts Government strategies for conflict resolution Explanation of why particular government strategies are applied to conflict resolution The public participation in planning literature The nature of conflicts in planning Government strategies for public participation in planning Explanation of why specific government strategies are applied during planning processes The social conflict resolution literature in China The nature of social conflicts in China Government strategies for social conflict resolution in China Explanation of why particular government strategies are applied in resolving social conflicts in China Conclusion Findings about the nature of environmental conflicts Findings about government strategies in governing environmental conflicts Findings about the explanation of why particular government strategies are applied in environmental conflicts Conclusions and a next step … Note Chapter 3: Toward a conceptual framework to describe and explain government strategies in governing Chinese environmental conflicts Introduction Policy game as a concept to conceptualize environmental conflict processes in China The definition of environmental conflicts Policy game as a tool to analyze environmental conflicts in China Conclusion: understanding environmental conflicts in China from a governance network perspective Six government strategies in Chinese environmental conflicts The conditions that explain why particular government strategies are applied in environmental conflicts Conditions 1 and 2: the form and scale of protest Condition 3: the position of national mass media Condition 4: the stage of the project Condition 5: the position of higher-level governments Condition 6: the involvement of activists Condition 7: the occurrence of events Relationships of key concepts Propositions regarding the application of government strategies during environmental conflicts Configurational thinking about the explanation of the application of government strategies Conclusion: using propositions and configurational thinking as two ways to explain the application of government strategies during environmental conflicts Toward a conceptual framework to describe and analyze government strategies in environmental conflicts in China Note Chapter 4: Research strategy and research method Introduction A multi-method research strategy Single case study Comparative case study Qualitative comparative analysis Toward a combination of three case study strategies Chapter 5: Government strategies in governing environmental conflicts: The Panyu waste incineration power plant in Guangzhou as a single case Introduction The Panyu waste incineration power plant case Background to the Panyu waste incineration power plant case The network characteristics of the Panyu waste incineration power plant case Process: five rounds in the Panyu waste incineration power plant case The substantive, procedural, and institutional outcomes of the Panyu waste incineration power plant case Strategies of local governments in Guangzhou during the Panyu waste incineration power plant case The explanation for the application of government strategies in the Panyu case The explanation for the application of a go-alonestrategy at the beginning The explanation for the application of a suppression strategy The explanation for the application of a tension reduction strategy The explanation for the application of a collaboration and a facilitation strategy Discussion Conclusions Notes Chapter 6: Government strategies in governing environmental conflicts: The Dalian PX plant as a single case Introduction The Dalian PX case Background to the Dalian PX case The network context of the Dalian PX case The process of the Dalian PX case The substantive, procedural, and institutional outcomes in the Dalian PX case Government strategies in the Dalian PX case The explanation for the application of government strategies in the Dalian PX case The explanation for the application of a go-alone strategy The explanation for the application of a suppression strategy The explanation for the adoption of a tension reduction strategy The explanation for the application of a giving in strategy The explanation for the application of a tension reduction strategy Discussion Conclusions Notes Chapter 7: What makes the patterns of government strategies similar and different during environmental conflicts? Introduction Research method Identification of the three patterns of government strategies during environmental conflicts Within-pattern comparison using the method of agreement Understanding the similarities in the two cases in pattern 1 Understanding the similarities in the three cases in pattern 2 Understanding the similarities in the five cases in pattern 3 Toward an explanation of the three patterns of government strategies during environmental conflicts Cross-pattern comparison using the method of difference The pair-wise comparison of the cases in pattern 1 and pattern 3 The pair-wise comparison of the cases in pattern 1 and pattern 2 The pair-wise comparison of the cases in pattern 2 and pattern 3 Toward an explanation of the differences in the three patterns of government strategies during environmental conflicts Conclusions Notes Chapter 8: Under what conditions do Chinese local governments make compromises with local communities during environmental conflicts? Introduction Conceptual framework The outcome to study: the occurrence/nonoccurrence of government compromises during environmental conflicts The conditions that explain the occurrence/nonoccurrence of compromises by local governments Calibration of outcome and conditions Analysis Explaining the occurrence of compromise by local governments with local communities during environmental conflicts The explanation of the absence of compromises by local governments with local communities during environmental conflicts Discussion and conclusion Notes Chapter 9: Toward a conclusion: Governing environmental conflicts in China Introduction Conclusions about research questions What are the general characteristics of environmental conflicts in China? What strategies are applied by local governments during environmental conflicts? How can the application of government strategies during environmental conflicts be explained? Contributions and reflections Contributions to, and reflections on, theories Contributions to, and reflections on, practices Contributions to, and reflections on, methods A research agenda for studying the governance of environmental conflicts in China Appendix 1: Description of the 10 cases Case 1 The Xiamen PX case in 2007 Case 2 The Liulitun waste incineration power plant case in Beijing in 2007 Case 3 The Panyu waste incineration power plant case in Guangzhou in 2009 Case 4 The Tianjingwa waste incineration power plant case in Nanjing in 2009 Case 5 The Dalian PX case in 2011 Case 6 The Ningbo PX case in 2012 Case 7 The Wuxi waste incineration power plant case in 2012 Case 8 The Songjiang waste incineration power plant case in Shanghai in 2012 Case 9 The Kunming refinery project in 2013 Case 10 The Pengzhou PX plant in 2013 Appendix 2: Interviewee list in China References Index