Macau's competitive foreign investment environment places it at the crossroads of global conceptions and articulations of corporate social responsibility (CSR). With tremendous financial resources at its disposal, including revenues six times those of Las Vegas, the Macau Government has a rare...

The People's Republic of China (PRC) is a party-state constituted under the authoritarian leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Most of its national-level institutions are duplicated at subnational levels in order to enhance central supervision. Two notable constitutional asymmetries...

China's status as the world's largest overall emitter of sulfur dioxide pollution carries with it serious hazards to human and ecosystem health. The National People's Congress began to address this in 2000 when it promulgated national SO2 emissions caps. By 2010, SO2 emissions across the...

Natural resources are the fountainhead of development and prosperity. Social injustices are often associated with resource exploitation when non-renewable resources located in undeveloped areas are depleted by politically and economically dominant peoples. China is not insulated from this...

The International Joint Commission (IJC), a bilateral institution established to manage the shared water resources of the United States and Canada, is celebrating its centennial. Despite its original mandate, the IJC also earned a prominent role in the governance of transboundary air pollution...