Disentangling the relationship between economic development and environmental
protection has attracted much attention from public administration scholars. While …

How do local governments set performance targets under multi‐task conditions? This article
builds a theoretical linkage between environmental targets and gross domestic product …

China, the world's second largest economy, has been facing a growing municipal solid
waste (MSW) disposal problem. How to choose and implement the MSW classification policy …

As a multidimensional topic, smart cities continue to attract interest from practitioners and
academics across a variety of disciplines. Whilst much theorizing and conceptualization …

Linking strategic management to performance has been called essential for public
managers to confront pernicious environmental and community problems in the 21st …

During the last two decades, scholars have pointed to a process of “denationalization,” or
the delegation of competencies away from the center of the nation‐state—upward …

The study of policy design has been of long-standing interest to policy scholars. Recent
surveys of policy design scholarship acknowledge two main pathways along which it has …

The environment is the common property of all human beings, and all should enjoy equal
rights to use the environment. Years of growth have greatly improved China's overall …

Some corporate pollution behaviors raise public concern on whether local governments can
strictly implement the central environmental policy to restrain heavy-polluting firms within …

Local governments are leading sustainability efforts through a range of initiatives, often
voluntarily. While a spate of research exists to explain what drives these voluntary decisions …