Interaction Of The Stakeholders Of The Local Environmental Regulation

This paper analyzes the local government environmental regulation from a perspective of the provision of intergenerational public goods. It argues that the cost of the local government environmental regulation is shared mainly among the contemporary local government, the polluting industries and other citizens. Since the costs is burderned by the contmporary people while the benefits is shared not only intra-generational but also inter-generational, the local government environmental regulation is considered as a kind of intergenerational public goods.The following is main conclusion of this paper:Demonstrate that the intergenerational externalities of the local government environmental regulation could be internalized by the interation of the tripartite stakeholders; While there are many factors in reality, which is making the internalizing-mechnism could not be fully realized. These disturbances in the intergenerational dimension including the following reasons:the term limits for local government official, which resulted the inconsistency of the governmental intergenerational structure and the demographic structure, leading to short-term behavior of local governments; As the absent of the mechanism of both intergenerational responsibility affirm and intergenerational retroactive compensation, enterprises always lacks the desire to reduce the pollution emission; Although the contemporary citizens have a natural relationship with the future generations, they still face to limits to play a positive role owing to limited factor like the "Free Ride" motivation. Therefore, to avoid the sequent of local government environmental regulation departure from the public interests and the principle of intergenerational equality, appropriate measures should be put into practice.