Environmental management systems may play an important role in environmental pollution control. Given China’s rapid economic development and increases in environmental pollution, this study attempts to study how environmental decentralization and local government competition affect China’s...

Energy and environmental issues have already become two serious threats to China’s sustainable development. In this study, the relationship between energy consumption, environmental regulation and carbon emissions is quantitatively examined after taking full control of spatial effects and...

Environmental pollution and its effects have attracted increasing attention, but few studies have examined the impact of environmental pollution on the crime rate. This study adopted panel data of 30 provinces in China for the period 2005 to 2016 to examine the relationship between environmental...