Environmental Governance and Environmental Responsibility Research

Dear Colleagues,

Global economic development has made remarkable achievements, but it has also produced serious environmental pollution problems, especially with the rapid development of industrialization and modernization. Environmental pollution, resource waste, and other problems are becoming increasingly serious. It has brought great threats to human health and the ecological environment of the earth. In order to deal with the increasingly severe problem of environmental pollution and achieve high-quality economic development, countries worldwide have issued a series of environmental protection policies and laws and achieved great results in environmental governance. However, due to regional differences in industrial structure, energy structure, and subjective initiative of various subjects, environmental governance still faces severe challenges, such as cross-mismatch and inefficient management of environmental management, insufficient subjective initiative, and incentive of enterprise environmental governance, narrow channels of individual participation and poor results. Individuals, enterprises, and society should actively fulfill their environmental responsibilities to achieve green development. Everyone can contribute to environmental protection, including reducing energy consumption, waste emissions, and wildlife protection. Enterprises should adopt environmentally friendly production modes, technologies, and energy resources and then reduce pollution emissions in the production process. The government and society should further increase investment in environmental protection, encourage green technology innovation, popularize environmental protection culture, and form a pattern of environmental protection in which all people participate.

This Special Issue will focus on environmental governance and environmental responsibility, explore the breakthrough path of environmental governance under economic downward pressure, and analyze the new positioning of individuals, enterprises, and governments in environmental governance in the new development stage so that each stakeholder can better fulfill their environmental responsibilities and better promote green and sustainable economic development. It also helps to expand the research perspective of environmental governance and supplement the research literature on the relationship between environmental governance and environmental responsibility. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews that are non-published or in process elsewhere are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Ding Li
Dr. Ziran Li
Dr. Guoxiang Li
Guest Editors

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• environmental decentralization, government responsibility, and high-quality development
• government behavior, environmental strategies, and environmental performance
• environmental protection system and enterprise environmental protection behavior
• environmental responsibility and pollution reduction
• green innovation, pollution, and carbon reduction
• enterprise digital transformation and green development
• green consumption, product selection, and environmental governance
• consumption mode choice and industrial green transformation
• harmonious coexistence between humans and nature