Can intergovernmental cooperative policies promote water ecology improvement-An analysis based on water quality data from China's general environmental monitoring station.

ABSTRACT: To strengthen cooperation among local governmental departments and improve water ecology, China has proposed the river management policy "river chief system + procurator". However, it remains to be verified that intergovernmental cooperative policies contribute to the improvement of China's water ecology. Based on data from 87 national water quality monitoring sites released by the China Environmental Monitoring Station from 2015 to 2022, this paper constructed a multiperiod differences-in-differences model to evaluate the effectiveness of the cooperative governmental policy, the "river chief system + procurator", on the improvement of the water quality of rivers and lakes. The results of the study show that cooperative government policy helps to improve the water environment of rivers and

SUBMITTER: Ding Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10681251 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature