Introduction -- Regional pollution emission in China -- Technology, production, and the environment -- Regional convergence from an environmental perspective -- Openness, the environment, and productivity -- Structural change, convergence, and the environment -- Unbalanced development and the...

"'The authors make some very critical interventions in this debate and scholars engaged in the environmental pollution haven and race to the bottom debates will need to take the arguments made here seriously, re-evaluating their own preferred theories to respond to the insightful theorizing and...

"This book discusses several important issues in the practice of China's green development. It analyzes the carbon mitigation, water conservation and environmental pollution from the perspectives of economic development, technological change, production and demand. The book uses various...

Institutional constraints -- Institutional reform and economic changes -- Service organization reform -- Enforcement styles and effectiveness -- Enforcement styles : regional variations -- Enforcement styles : changes over time -- Environmental agencies and public opinion -- Public participation...