Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2015, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 495-501.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2015.05.009

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Chinese Ecological Politics: Based on an Analysis of the Environmental Group Events in Recent Years

QIN Bing-yu   

  1. (Institute for Political Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China)
  • Received:2015-04-18 Revised:2015-04-18 Online:2015-09-25 Published:2015-11-09
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Abstract: Environmental problems and political issues are closely related in that ecological politics has raised environment issues to the level of politics. With the gradual deterioration of the environment, the public pay more attention to environmental issues, among whom some are even directly engaged in environmental group events. Such a behavior of spontaneous organization of anti-environment pollution and destruction is the specific performance of Chinese ecological political action with local characteristics. Currently, the nature of Chinese ecological political action is incidents, the theme of the action focuses on specific environmental problems, the main participants of the action are the general public without strong leadership, and the performance of the action is local scale with violent and non-violent ways coexisting. The development of ecological politics and the peoples action are both an opportunity and a challenge to the country and the government, and the ecological politics requires the government to improve its governance capability so as to prevent and resolve conflicts.

Key words: ecological politics, ecological political action, environmental problem, environmental group event

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