A Review of Environmental Regulation Competition
Zhang Hua
摘要：环境规制竞争意味着相邻地区之间的环境规制相互作用和影响，表现为空间上的策略互动，是环境联邦主义理论与地方政府竞争理论相融合的产物。本文从环境规制竞争的理论背景、起源和发展三个方面出发，以分权导致竞争为主线，阐述了环境联邦主义理论，梳理了地方政府竞争理论及具体竞争形式，在此基础上着重分析了环境规制策略性竞争的经验研究，尤其关注了环境规制“逐底竞争”的议题，并总结了代表学者的观点，以期厘清环境规制竞争文献的研究脉络和最新动态。
关键词：环境规制竞争；环境联邦主义；地方政府竞争
Abstract:Environmental regulation competition, which is characterized by spatial strategic interaction, refers to the interaction and influence of environmental regulation between adjacent jurisdictions, was born in the combination of environmental federalism theory and interjurisdictional competition theory. As the main line of decentralization system leading to competition, this paper includes three aspects of environmental regulation competition, which are the theoretical background, origin and the development. This study starts with the theory of environmental federalism and then combs the theory of interjurisdictional competition and its specific competitive patterns. On this basis, we carefully analyze the strategic competition of environmental regulation and summarize the views of representative scholars, especially the issue of race to the bottom. These efforts are for clarifying the research framework and the recent developing trends of environmental regulation competition.
Keywords:Environmental Regulation Competition; Environmental Federalism; Interjurisdictional Competition
DOI:10.19511/j.cnki.jee.2017.01.009