School of Economics and Finance, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710115, China.
School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2021 May;28(20):24972-24991. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-13642-x. Epub 2021 Mar 26.
The social and economic development in China has not only made a series of great achievements but also suffered from increasingly serious air pollution. It is of great significance to explore the co-governance mechanism of air pollution in order to promote high-quality development and the construction of "beautiful China." Based on an analysis using the concept of co-governance, this paper reviews the research from four aspects: the multi-object relationships, multi-agent framework, and the co-governance technical tools and policy tools. The results show that the current research has many deficiencies: a lack of research on the size, direction, and driving factors of the correlation of objects; the construction of the multi-agent framework focused only on concepts and lacking the design of core mechanisms; evaluating only the effect of tools but ignoring the optimal combination of governance tools, and paying attention only to the traditional pollutants and disregarding the latest air pollution. Accordingly, this paper finds that the research should be expanded from four aspects, which include taking into account the co-governance of new air pollution, clarifying the relationship between the various types of air pollutants and the driving factors, building a multi-disciplinary research framework for co-governance, and optimizing the combination of governance policies and technical tools in order to realize high-quality development of China.
中国的社会和经济发展不仅取得了一系列伟大成就，而且还面临着日益严重的空气污染问题。探索空气污染的协同治理机制对于促进高质量发展和建设“美丽中国”具有重要意义。本文基于协同治理的概念，从多目标关系、多主体框架以及协同治理技术工具和政策工具四个方面对相关研究进行了回顾。研究结果表明，当前研究存在诸多不足，例如缺乏对目标相关性的大小、方向和驱动因素的研究；对多主体框架的构建仅停留在概念层面，缺乏核心机制的设计；仅评估工具的效果而忽略了治理工具的最佳组合，以及只关注传统污染物而忽视最新的空气污染问题。因此，本文认为应该从四个方面拓展研究，包括考虑新的空气污染协同治理、厘清各类空气污染物之间的关系及其驱动因素、构建协同治理的多学科研究框架，以及优化治理政策和技术工具的组合，从而实现中国的高质量发展。
