The making of Environmental law in China : The making of Environmental law in China

This thesis analyses the history of politics of environmental law in China and its applications today. Looking back at the formation of China's political system, from the administrative organ to the legal system, the thesis gives an overview of the long term roots in traditional political ideology in contemporary Chineses political practive. The history of enviromental law is discussed in detail and the complexity of central, provincial and local governments and legislative organizations is discussed, The negotiation between envoernment and enterprise, as a first part; through the environmental impact assessment law, and as a second part the relationship between government and individual referred to here as pubi participation is high lightened. I will analse in detail particular case studies such as the Xiamen PX project and the Tianjin explosions. As I will show although China's environmental protection department has regulatory responsibilities of unified supervision or nominal level and management of environmental protection this supervision exist only on a theoretical or nominal level and the negation betweeen different political interest on local, regional and national scale hampers the implementation of the environmental law in China.