The Effect Of Public Participation On Environmental Information Publication

The focus of this study is the effect of public participation on environmental information publication.The study found that,Environmental information publication is related to public participation.The government agenda drives the media agenda and the annual number of green news is influenced by mass disturbances and lawsuit.The number of green news in Caixin Weekly overall smoothly and slightly oscillated.The majority of public participation is caused by business dynamics,government dynamics,accident.And corporate dynamics affect the annual number of public participation event.When environmental journalism associated with public participation have domestic official source and new media source,functional departments are more likey to intervene,which can affects problem solving.In this study,environmental information publication means that environmental information appear in environmental journalism in Caixin Weekly.Because environmental information appear in medias is a meas of mass communication,which can promote disclosure.Environmental journalism involving public participation are mostly in-depth reports.To make our study deeper and more typical,we only do research in in-depth reports.The promotion of environmental information publication is the increase in the number of environmental journalism in-depth reports.This study adopts quantitative analysis tool to do content analysis of environmental journalism in Caixin Weekly from 2010 to 2015.Meantime analyze measuring result combined with interview material and case analysis.Firstly,describing general tendency of green news in Caixin Weekly and analyze reporting reasons.In addition,measuring the correlation of public participation and environmental information publication.Exploring reasons of public participation and the correlation of different types of public participation and environmental information publication.And analyze feature of sources in public participation activities' environmental journalism.Finally,judging the effect of supervision by public opinions though researching result after environmental information publication.Introducing intervening variables to know how environmental information publication affects problem solving.Public participation is a fundamental principle in environmental law,which contributes to decision-making democratization and scientification.And it can supervise environmental illegal activities efficiently.The media provide a channel for information publication,and the media exposure makes environmental issues into topic for discussion,which can affect the solution of questions.This study attempt to create a relational model among public participation,environmental information publication and problem solving.And the study attempt to make up for the inadequacy of quantitative research in this field and start a discussion for further academic research.