Turnover of environmental protection officials and transboundary water pollution
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Turnover of environmental protection officials and transboundary water pollution Juan Lu 1 Received: 18 July 2020 / Accepted: 3 November 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Considering the situation of the frequent turnover of Chinese environmental protection officials (EPOT), this paper analyzes its impact on transboundary water pollution. The results show that EPOT can reduce transboundary pollution. EPOT can reduce the concentration of DO by 0.261 and NH3-N by 0.167 in the downstream river. And the impact shows a first strong and then weak change over time. EPOT can restrain transboundary pollution by reducing the production of polluting enterprises and promoting public pollution reporting, and it aggravates transboundary pollution by reducing environmental law enforcement and collaborative governance. In addition, the impact of EPOT on transboundary pollution has a distance effect. Within the regulatory distance of 50 km, EPOT has strong inhibition on transboundary pollution. When the governor and the environmental protection official (EPO) change tenure at the same time, the inhibition of transboundary pollution is the strongest. In addition, EPOs from the central government and with working experience in environmental protection departments can control transboundary pollution better. Keywords Transboundary pollution . Turnover of environmental protection officials (EPOT) . Regulatory distance . Governor . Environmental protection official (EPO)
Introduction According to the information released by the Ministry of Ecological Environment, in the 1610 sections of China’s seven major rivers in 2019, the proportion of grades IV–V and inferior grade V1 are 17.9 and 3%, respectively. Among the 32 provincial boundary sections, the proportion of grades IV–V and inferior grade V water quality sections is 22.8 and 4%, respectively. It shows that the water quality of the provincial boundary section is worse than that of other river sections, indicating that transboundary pollution in China is relatively serious. Transboundary pollution mainly refers to the environmental pollution across administrative regions, which has its 1 The water quality is divided into grades I, II, III, IV, and V and inferior V. Among them, grades IV and V and inferior V represent light pollution, moderate pollution, and severe pollution, respectively
Responsible Editor: Eyup Dogan * Juan Lu [email protected] 1
School of Economics and Trade, Hunan University, Changsha, China
unique institutional roots. In the GDP performance competition, local officials compete to accept polluting industries to settle in their jurisdiction in order to obtain tax, which makes it difficult to solve transboundary pollution problems (Sigman 2005). Due to the direct impact of local environmental protection officials (EPOs) on pollution control, this paper attempts to find an effective way to solve transboundary pollution from the perspective of the turnover of environmental protection officials (EPOT).
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