Abstract：The selection and application of marine environmental policy tools in practice might directly affect the effectiveness of policy implementation. The research adopts the method of content analysis. Based on 1982-2016 marine environmental polices promulgated by Chinese government, the research analyzes the use of marine environmental policy tools with the processes of establishing the analytic framework, defining the analytic unit, coding the sample and carrying out frequency statistics. The research indicates that: 1) the command-control policy tools are excessively used. 2) marketing-driven policy tools are used. 3) message-publicity policy tools are outdated. 4) public-participation tools are insufficiently used. Moreover, the allocation of policy tools is unreasonable, policy tool innovation is deficient. At the same time, several problems occurred in the processes of marine environment governance, such as “focusing on the beginning, ignoring the end”, the supervision and guidance within the processes is inefficiency, accountability tools are inflexibility and inefficiency and so on. The article suggests building a comprehensive application pattern of policy tools, focusing on process control, perfecting the system for supervising marine, and advancing policy tools’ innovation.
许阳. 中国海洋环境治理的政策工具选择与应用——基于1982—2016年政策文本的量化分析[J]. 太平洋学报, 2017, 25(10): 49-59.
XU Yang. Selection and Application of China’s Marine Environmental Governance Policy Tools: A Quantitative Analysis Based on Policy Text (1982-2016). 太平洋学报, 2017, 25(10): 49-59.
