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Requests for environmental information disclosure in China : an understanding from legal mobilization and citizen activism
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Wang, Xinhong (2015) Requests for environmental information disclosure in China : an understanding from legal mobilization and citizen activism. Journal of Contemporary China, 25 (97). doi:10.1080/10670564.2015.1075712 ISSN 1067-0564.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2015.1075712
Abstract
This article analyzes the fairly recent phenomenon of citizens and organizations requesting disclosure of environmental information in China. Chinese citizens and organizations are invoking the new open government information regulations to push government agencies, particularly environmental protection agencies, to fulfill their legal obligation of information disclosure. By requesting that government agencies disclose environmental information, citizens and organizations have turned themselves into active agents pushing forward the implementation of the new regulations. The findings of this article suggest that a bottom-up legal mobilization in the field of environmental information disclosure, though still with a limited scope, has been happening and endeavoring to make social and political changes in China. Furthermore, this legal mobilization can be seen as an important part of emerging civil society activities in contemporary China.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Contemporary China | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1067-0564 | ||||
Official Date: | 26 October 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 25 | ||||
Number: | 97 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/10670564.2015.1075712 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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