An Overview of American Interstate Ecological Governance and the Enlightenment for China

Guo Yongyuan; Xiao Li

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An Overview of American Interstate Ecological Governance and the Enlightenment for China

Guo Yongyuan, Xiao Li

Published in International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy (Volume 7, Issue 4)

Received: 6 July 2019 Accepted: 15 August 2019 Published: 2 September 2019

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Abstract

The existing US interstate ecological governance system can be divided into three categories according to the governance subject: traditional government governance, inter-governmental cooperation governance and special organizational governance. Traditional ecological governance is a government-led public governance, that is, the use of public power. US interstate eco-governance governance includes administrative control-led environmental regulation, legislative legislative ecological behavior, and judicial system environmental litigation ruling. Interstate issues are essentially intergovernmental relationships, so inter-governmental cooperation mechanisms are the proper meaning of interstate ecological governance. Traditional interstate agreements and central government cooperation governance are two common ways of interstate cooperation governance. The special organization is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which is a company based in the United States. It is a state-owned company that was established in May 1933 in accordance with the Tennessee Valley Authority Act. Formal operation, it is a regional comprehensive governance and comprehensive development plan, "is the first organized attempt in the history of the United States to skillfully arrange the fate of the entire basin and its residents." The US interstate ecological governance system is effective and relevant. The governance system that basically meets the requirements of multi-center governance plays an active role in dealing with interstate ecological environmental disputes and protection. China and the United States have certain similarities in the field of ecological governance. On the basis of national conditions, China's cross-regional ecological governance can learn from the US's governance experience to achieve "good governance" of cross-regional ecological problems.

Published in	International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy (Volume 7, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijepp.20190704.13
Page(s)	117-126
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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United States, Interstate Ecological Governance, Essential Attributes, Revelation

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Guo Yongyuan

School of Public Administration, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan, China
Xiao Li

School of Public Administration, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan, China

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