Strictest nature conservation: China's national park policy underpinned by power shift and turf dynamic.
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- DOI码：10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103033
- 发表刊物：Forest Policy and Economics
- 关键字：China, National park, ACP theory, Turf, Bureaucratic politics
- 摘要：China initiated the national park policy in 2015 to achieve the strictest nature conservation. This study pointed
out that the core of this policy is to increase central authority. Hence, adopting the bureaucratic politics and
Actor-centered Power theory, the study aimed to analyze the power shift and turf dynamics among ministries in
the national park policy process. Based on the evidence, the study found that before 2015, ministries’ overlapping turfs in managing protected areas weakened the central coercion of local nature conservation, resulting
in excessive exploitation of these areas. To enhance conservation effectiveness, top leaders initiated the national
park policy. Top leaders reclaimed ministerial turfs through coercive power, whereas, utilized the ownership of
the national park policy to incentivize them to participate in pilots. Ultimately, the 2018 ministry reform led to
the State Forestry and Grassland Administration acquiring turf over protected areas including national parks. At
the same time, top leaders maintained the potential coercion through information provided by the Ministry of
Ecology and Environment that retained supervision authority over national parks. This ministerial restructuring
established robust national park administrations, breaking local power patterns and strengthening the central
control on nature conservation, which ensures the strictest nature conservation. This study contributed to understanding Chinese national park policy based on the perspective of political science. Furthermore, it provided
an analytical framework of power and turf for research on bureaucratic politics.
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- 合写作者：Max Krott
- 第一作者：Pei Zhang
- 论文类型：期刊论文
- 通讯作者：Jiacheng Zhao (赵佳程)*
- 学科门类：管理学
- 一级学科：公共管理学
- 文献类型：J
- 卷号：154
- 页面范围：103033
- 是否译文：否
- 发表时间：2023-07-10
- 收录刊物：SCI、SSCI
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Strictest nature conservation-China’s national park policy underpinned by power shift and turf dynamic.pdf
