State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
Center for Industrial Ecology, School of the Environment, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
J Environ Manage. 2021 Feb 15;280:111730. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111730. Epub 2020 Nov 29.
In this article, we introduce and analyze an emerging polycentric governance model for addressing wastewater challenges in textile industrial parks in China. Unlike the conventional two-tier model with government and polluters only, the emerging model emphasizes multi-actor participation and presents new possibilities in enhancing the cost-effectiveness and alleviating the compliance deficiency. We introduce the model through a case study of the Binhai textile industrial park. The features of the model include levering the subject of monitoring, allowing collaborative wastewater treatment, employing the administrative power of local governing bodies, and engaging multiple local actors. To explain its formation, we adopt event sequence analysis, and point out the important role of local government as a facilitator and a regulator in the externally generated collaborative governance. We identified its success factors with pattern matching based on polycentric governance theories. We find the involvement of varied actors in the decision-making process of internal wastewater emission standard could lead to applicable policy making with high acceptance, which contributes to the environmental performance. To initiate the transition towards the new model, three conditions are required, including policy support from the government, the establishment of monitoring systems, and capacity building for actors.
本文介绍并分析了一种新兴的多中心治理模式，用于解决中国纺织工业园区的废水问题。与传统的只有政府和污染者的两级模式不同，新兴模式强调多方参与，并在提高成本效益和缓解合规不足方面提供了新的可能性。我们通过滨海纺织工业园区的案例研究介绍了该模式。该模式的特点包括撬动监测主体、允许协同污水处理、利用地方治理机构的行政权力以及调动多方地方参与者。为了解释其形成机制，我们采用事件序列分析，并指出地方政府作为外部产生的协同治理的促进者和监管者的重要作用。我们基于多中心治理理论进行模式匹配，确定了其成功因素。我们发现，在内部废水排放标准的决策过程中，多样化的参与者的介入可能会制定出具有较高接受度的适用政策，从而有助于提高环境绩效。要向新模式过渡，需要具备三个条件，包括政府的政策支持、监测系统的建立以及参与者能力的建设。
