Does Environmental Information Disclosure Benefit Waste Discharge Reduction? Evidence from China

• Published in: Journal of business ethics Vol. 129; no. 3; pp. 535 - 552
• Main Authors: Huang, Rongbing, Chen, Danping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.07.2015; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Business and Management; Business Ethics; Carbon emissions; China; Content analysis; Developing countries; Disclosure; Economic growth; Economic reform; Education; Environmental accounting; Environmental impact; Environmental management; Environmental protection; Environmental regulations; Ethics; GDP; Gross Domestic Product; Hypotheses; Industrial wastes; Information; LDCs; Management; Market entry; Philosophy; Pollutants; Pollution; Pollution control; Quality of Life Research; Regulation; Social responsibility; Stock exchanges; Studies; Transition economies; Waste management; China; Environmental information disclosure; Environmental auditing; Institutional emission reduction; China; Waste discharge reduction; Content analysis

As a tool for regulating the environment in China, does environmental information disclosure reduce pollutant discharge? To answer this question, we empirically analyzed the emission data of "the three wastes" (i.e., waste gas, wastewater, and solid waste) in unit industrial GDP in 31 prov...