"Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of...

"'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...

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...