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The article argues that China can only tackle its environmental problem if it streamlines its legal and governance institutions to align them with the goal of long-term environmental sustainability.

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The challenge is especially great because it is often the case that, even though there are adequate laws and standards on paper, they are not being implemented in practice by China's municipal and local governments.

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This page is a summary of: Environmental Degradation and Economic Development in China: An Interrelated Governance Challenge, The Law and Development Review, September 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/ldr-2017-0020.
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