Administrative Reforms in Germany and China in Comparison [2] (2006–2009)

Administrative Reforms in Germany and China in Comparison [2]: Decentralised Policies, Environment Policy as a Case Study (2006–2009)

Joint project by Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer, Prof. Dr. Dieter Grunow (University of Duisburg-Essen), and Prof. Dr. Yu Keping (China Center of Comparative Economics and Politics, Beijing), funded by the Franz Haniel Foundation.

The follow-up project intended to scrutinize local administrative acting (or non-acting) in the domain of environmental issues. A comparison with German policies shall facilitate to learn from the experiences of an advanced country and its underlying concepts. Three case studies in Northeast, East and Central China were conducted.

Four core issues of environmental policies will be examined:

  1. Environmental policies of various governmental echelons (local, province, centre) and their implementation;
  2. The role and acting of various players (various levels of government and Party administration, enterprises, environment organizations (NGOs), the media, citizens, international leverage, etc.);
  3. Conflicts and conflict management;
  4. Elaboration of environment-oriented development strategies.

The objective is to elaborate a policy paper and a proposal concerning the implementation and diffusion of an effective environmental policies in the sense of policy learning.