信息时代的环境保护

Environmental Protection in the Information Age

信息缺口严重制约着环境问题的解决,正在发展的信息时代的技术促进了信息缺口的填充。这一改变强化了市场机制对环境问题的回应,推动信息工具成为一个重要的规制手段,有效弥补了命令控制式规制的不足。信息的改善影响到环境保护的制度结构,反之,制度安排也制约着信息的产生和利用,信息工具潜力的发挥需要在信息技术和环境保护之间建立良好的适应关系。同时,应当以信息工具的适用为契机,积极探索环境保护的最佳工具组合,聚合各方面力量,合作解决环境问题。

Information gaps seriously affect the solution of environmental problems, and the emerging technologies of the Information Age will create new gap-filling options. These developments not only strengthen market institutional responses to environmental problems, but also promote information to become an important regulatory tool and make it fill deficiencies of the command-and-control regulation. Just as information improvement affects the institutional design, so too does institutional design affects the generation and use of information. Harnessing the power of information tool will require to create a good fit between information technologies and environmental protection institutions. At the same time, we should take adoption of informational tool as a chance to explore the optimal mix of regulatory tools to environmental protection, so as to aggregate all forces and cooperatively solve environmental problems.