China's remarkable economic growth over the past 35 years has come at a cost, not least being a significant deterioration in its natural environment. Chinese authorities have responded to this challenge with a range of measures including the imposition of specifically targeted environmental...

A primary aim of this book (and the Conference on which it is based) was to generate an academically well grounded comparative study of the use and misuse of fiscal measures – especially green taxation: to encourage environmental protection and improvement in particular jurisdictions (and...

This paper examines, on the basis of the existing research literature, the problems and prospects of environmental taxation in China. While the paper focuses on the current environmentally related tax and charge system and its effects in China, it also deals with the issue of whether it is...