中國環境治理機制的變遷與延續――從外交、內政與黨建設分析（Change and Continuity in Chinese Environmental Governance Mechanisms: Diplomacy, Government, and the Chinese Communist Party）

中国環境ガバナンスにおけるメカニズム の変遷と継続–外交・内政・党建設からの分析–

當代中國環境治理的討論偏重於說明管控環境污染物的治理內容，造成分析中國環境治理機制的研究成為回顧當代中國環境保護部的成立過程，這樣的分析角度過於強調城市居民所重視的環境汙染治理，卻也因此而忽略農村居民所重視的生態保育治理。本文認為造成上述分析偏頗的原因在於分析中國環境治理的時間深度不足，因此透過回顧中國環境外交、內政與黨建設的分析過程，認為中國環境治理機制的內容不只包含治理環境汙染的項目，還具有傳統生態保育的內容，使得環境治理的重點已經從「節能減排」運動以回應城市居民所關心的減少大氣汙染物排放量，延伸到深化「生態文明建設」以強調鄉村居民所重視的生態保育工程。 Contemporary discussion of China's environmental governance mechanisms tends to revolve around pollution mitigation programs. This has led academic discussion to focus heavily on the establishment of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and overemphasize the urban environmental protection agenda, while under-emphasizing the importance of ecological conservation, which is a core concern for the rural environmental policy agenda. By re-focusing the discussion on the under-explored rural agenda, and through analysis of China's environmental diplomacy, the views of Chinese government and official statements from the Chinese Communist party, this paper finds contemporary environmental governance mechanisms in China incorporate both pollution mitigation strategies, as well as more traditional ecological conservation mechanisms. As a result, the attention of Chinese environmental governance has expanded from a thoroughly urban approach focusing on emissions reductions, to a broader project of ‘Constructing an Ecological Civilization' emphasizing traditionally more rural concerns ecological conservation and food security.

Contemporary discussion of China's environmental governance mechanisms tends to revolve around pollution mitigation programs. This has led academic discussion to focus heavily on the establishment of China's Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and overemphasize the urban environmental protection agenda, while under-emphasizing the importance of ecological conservation, which is a core concern for the rural environmental policy agenda. By re-focusing the discussion on the under-explored rural agenda, and through analysis of China's environmental diplomacy, the views of Chinese government and official statements from the Chinese Communist party, this paper finds contemporary environmental governance mechanisms in China incorporate both pollution mitigation strategies, as well as more traditional ecological conservation mechanisms. As a result, the attention of Chinese environmental governance has expanded from a thoroughly urban approach focusing on emissions reductions, to a broader project of ‘Constructing an Ecological Civilization' emphasizing traditionally more rural concerns ecological conservation and food security.