China’s environmental governance strategy provides a distinctive pathway for integrating sustainable development into national policy.Understanding its policy trajectory is essential for assessing China’s contributi...China’s environmental governance strategy provides a distinctive pathway for integrating sustainable development into national policy.Understanding its policy trajectory is essential for assessing China’s contribution to global sustainable development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).This study constructs a comprehensive database of 425 national environmental governance policy documents issued between 1978 and 2022 and applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA)modeling to examine the evolution of policy themes and discourse.The results show that China’s environmental governance has undergone four stages-initial exploration,detailed development,transformative leap,and diverse prosperity-reflecting a progressive shift toward more integrated and coordinated governance.Policy priorities have evolved from a primary focus on pollution control and energy transition to an emphasis on institutional construction and organizational reform,thereby strengthening alignment with the SDGs.This transformation is characterized by recurring developmental themes and increasingly preventive,forward-looking,and system-oriented governance approaches.Moreover,the co-evolution of policy concepts and implementation has driven a transition from localized,end-of-pipe responses to comprehensive governance frameworks,alongside a shift from normative guidance towards effectiveness-oriented policy design.By employing a data-driven text analysis approach,this study offers a systematic framework for tracing long-term policy evolution and assessing its implications for sustainable development.展开更多
基金supported by the Key Project of Jiangsu Social Science Fund and the Key Project of Jiangsu Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era(Grant No.26ZXZA017).
文摘China’s environmental governance strategy provides a distinctive pathway for integrating sustainable development into national policy.Understanding its policy trajectory is essential for assessing China’s contribution to global sustainable development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).This study constructs a comprehensive database of 425 national environmental governance policy documents issued between 1978 and 2022 and applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA)modeling to examine the evolution of policy themes and discourse.The results show that China’s environmental governance has undergone four stages-initial exploration,detailed development,transformative leap,and diverse prosperity-reflecting a progressive shift toward more integrated and coordinated governance.Policy priorities have evolved from a primary focus on pollution control and energy transition to an emphasis on institutional construction and organizational reform,thereby strengthening alignment with the SDGs.This transformation is characterized by recurring developmental themes and increasingly preventive,forward-looking,and system-oriented governance approaches.Moreover,the co-evolution of policy concepts and implementation has driven a transition from localized,end-of-pipe responses to comprehensive governance frameworks,alongside a shift from normative guidance towards effectiveness-oriented policy design.By employing a data-driven text analysis approach,this study offers a systematic framework for tracing long-term policy evolution and assessing its implications for sustainable development.
