Abstract
Significant efforts towards environmental transparency have been made by the Chinese government since 2008. This paper focuses on the technical decisions shaping a database of official pollution information built and operated by a Chinese NGO known as the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE). Issues of standardization, power distribution and institutional fragmentation are discussed. The paper illustrates a case of NGOs integrating enforcement capabilities as data centres amidst the growing reliance on processes of informational governance of environmental issues.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 205-217 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | China Quarterly |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- China
- Development3304 Education
- Geography, Planning and Development
- IPE
- NGOs
- Political Science and International Relations
- database
- environment
- information disclosure
- pollution
- software
- standards
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