Implementing Cleaner Production Programmes in Changzhou and Nantong, Jiangsu Province

Bibliographic Data

ID3884522
AuthorsHongyan He Oliver, Leonard Ortolano (Stanford University, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume37
Issue1
Pages99-120
Publication date2006-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0012-155x.2006.00471.x
OpenAlexW2063565243
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

Cleaner Production (CP) has been advocated worldwide as a strategy for companies to obtain environmental and economic benefits simultaneously. This analysis of how city-level CP programmes were implemented in Changzhou and Nantong (Jiangsu Province, China) finds that both cities failed to meet the Province's targets to implement CP at all large- and medium-sized companies by the end of 2000. Ineffective vertical control, weak inter-agency co-ordination, and lack of alignment between CP requirements and the core missions and operating procedures of implementing agencies have impeded CP implementation in the two cities. The relatively few successful CP outcomes at companies are based on the professionalism and skills of individual implementing agents. However, successes that rely exclusively on individual agents may not last, and thus institutional changes will be needed if the government's CP programmes are to lead to broader CP adoption

Agency (philosophy) · Business · China · Cleaner production · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental economics · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Municipal solid waste · Political science · Production (economics) · Engineering · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Regulation and Compliance Studies

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