主題：Residential Awareness and Environment Improvement: Evidence from the River Chief System in China
主要內(nèi)容：River pollution has been a problem in many developing countries. As the largest developing country in the world, water pollution is highly prominent in China. Over 30% of surface water in China was reported contaminated round the end of 2016. Considering this detrimental situation, China initiated a flagship institutional innovation on river governance called the River Chief System (RCS), which requires the government to disclose information on administrative responsibilities to the public and invite public supervision. Using 1,156 self-collected questionnaires in 2018 and 2019 from residents in Shanghai, this paper exploits the variation in the timing when each town/subdistrict in Shanghai establishes the local River Chief Office to identify the causal effect of information disclosure on rivers’ environment from the perspective of public participation. Our model expands the traditional public goods theory to a discrete-choice application, and shows that the RCS can potentially lead to outcomes closer to the social optimal. The empirical results confirm the river quality improvement under the RCS, and further show that local residents’ willingness and actual action to involve in river management increases due to the RCS, which may play a critical role in the sustainability of river management.
專(zhuān)家姓名：李天舒
工作單位：南京審計(jì)大學(xué)
專(zhuān)長(zhǎng)和學(xué)術(shù)成就：主要研究方向?yàn)榄h(huán)境經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)，發(fā)展經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)，和區(qū)域經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)，目前的研究課題包括水權(quán)交易、水質(zhì)管理、碳排放和扶貧政策等多個(gè)涉及環(huán)境與發(fā)展方面的課題。相關(guān)研究成果發(fā)表于Nature Sustainability、The World Bank Economic Review、Land Economics和Advances in Water Resources等經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)和環(huán)境科學(xué)領(lǐng)域的國(guó)際期刊。
專(zhuān)家簡(jiǎn)介：李天舒，南京審計(jì)大學(xué)城市發(fā)展研究院助理教授，畢業(yè)于美國(guó)弗吉尼亞大學(xué)，獲經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)博士學(xué)位。曾在弗吉尼亞大學(xué)的達(dá)頓商學(xué)院做水資源方面的跨學(xué)科博士后研究，并參與多項(xiàng)美國(guó)國(guó)家科學(xué)基金項(xiàng)目。
時(shí)間：2021-10-12 13:30:00
地點(diǎn)：經(jīng)管樓335