Regulating land and pollution in China : lawmaking, compliance, and enforcement : theory and cases

Rooij, B. van (2006)

Doctoral Thesis

Since the second half of the 1990s, the Chinese government has made an intensive effort to control ongoing natural resource losses. In order to curb the loss of arable land and the environmental destruction caused by air and water pollution, central level leadership amended existing legislation, making it stricter and more specific. In addition, the centre organized enforcement campaigns to overcome local resistance against the implementation of the amended laws. In an effort to understand the effects these changes had at the local level, this book details how they influenced compliance with natural resource legislation at Lake Dianchi in Yunnan province. This book combines local case studies with theories about lawmaking, compliance, and enforcement, derived from Western and non-Western contexts. Doing so, it offers a unique body of empirical and theoretical knowledge for those interested in how law functions in China, as well as those interested in the workings of regulatory lawmaking, compliance, and enforcement in a comparative perspective

• China
• Chinese law
• Compliance
• Criminology
• Enforcement
• Environmental law
• Law and development
• Legal theory
• Rule of law
• Sociology of law

• All authors: Rooij, B. van
• Supervisor: Otto, J.M.
• Co-supervisor: Chen, J.
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Faculty of Law, Leiden University
• Date: 2006-12-14
• Publisher: Leiden: Leiden University Press
• ISBN (print): 9087280130
• Court: LEI Universiteit Leiden
• Sponsorship: Dutch Ministry of OCW LUF