Causes analysis on the failure of government environmental responsibility-Based on the perspective of law and economics

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science Vol. 93; no. 1; pp. 12026 - 12031
• Main Author: Fa, L N
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.11.2017
• Subjects: Economic analysis; Economics; Environmental protection; Failure analysis; Game theory; Local government; Pollution control; Prisoner's dilemma; Prisoners; Utility theory
• ISSN: 1755-1307; 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/93/1/012026

As the important Environmental Interests of Subjects, government behooves to undertake the corresponding responsibility of Pollution Control and Environmental Protection. The current situations in our country, however, appear as government environmental responsibility failure. Based on the analysis of law and economics, this article reaches the conclusion through game analysis, principle-agency relationship and utility theory that the prisoners dilemma of environmental interest game between government and enterprise, and the inherent defect of the principal-agency relationship between central government and local government are the inherent causes of government environmental responsibility failure. Many officials tends to graft and corrupt to maximum their own benefit, thus leading to the government failure among environmental pollution treatment and the environmental responsibility to undertake.