| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 自然資源與環境管理研究所 === 104 === As the economic reforms in China began several decades ago, despite the rapid growth of economy, problems in environmental protection and social distribution have become the obstacles toward sustainable development for the country. By applying the analysis framework of new institutional economics, this study explores the institution change of coal mining in China, and raise the questions of how and why these institutions evolve. This study also builds on a collection of literatures from path dependence and resource curse, China’s political system, political economy of transition, to economic history of mining.
It is shown that the key for sustainable utilization of depletable resources is whether the property rights institution and the institution environment which enforce the institution are in effect. In respect of property rights institution, there are problems of undefined or unclear property rights, the inconsistence between the understanding of property rights and the juridical structure, as well as the unclear relation between mineral rights and adjacent rights. Regarding the political units and institutional environment, the absence of state ownership, mixture of property rights and administered rights in local governments, and lack of the mechanism of supervision, sanctions, and feedback are the existing problems.
The implications behind these findings are to enhance the enforcement of property rights and resource taxation, to specify the relation between mineral rights and adjacent rights, and last but not least, to build a society on check-and-balance principle with effective feedback mechanism between agents and the government.
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