北京环保公众网Beijing Public Net for Environmental Protection
What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
Beijing Public Net for Environmental Protection is being profiled. The website is founded by the Beijing Environmental Education Center which was established in 1998 and affiliated with Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. The Beijing Environmental Education Center has education platform for green media, environmental education and public participation.
What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
The website provides resources for the public to get involved in major environmental activities in Beijing and special topics about scientific facts and policies. It has a news section, which includes details topics about major political events and policies.
The website lists news about celebrities who were involved in environmental protection and promotes some influential environmental protection figures and Beijing environmental ambassadors.
The Internet citizens can leave message on the website. The messages are usually about reporting specific environmental issues in Beijing, giving suggestions and asking questions. While the website has responded to most of the comments, the response was usually identical, without significance and didn’t directly answer the comment.
What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
From 2004, according to the website, Beijing Environmental Education Center started competition about environmental knowledge and photography contests to promote environmental awareness. The Education center has similar activities targeting different students groups every year. It started the campaign called “drive one less day per month” preceding the World Environment Day from 2005.
Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
No, it doesn’t.
What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
The education center gives out questionnaires to investigate the opinions among the public about the environmental policies and progress in solving environmental issues. The website also has the questionnaires online for people to fill out. The most recent one they have collected is the citizen satisfaction survey of Beijing air quality measures during the commemoration of 70th anniversary of victory in WWII.
What research has the organization produce or draw on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
The Beijing Environmental Education Center haven’t produced any research according to their website.
What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
The Beijing Environmental Education Center relies on the Beijing Public Net for Environmental Protection to promote its various environmental activities and explain some important policies to improve public participation.
北京环境教育中心依托北京环保公众网宣传它的各种环保活动，并解释一些重要的政策，以促进公众参与。
What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
The organization relies on interaction with the residents in Beijing to engage them in various environmental activities. For example, it founded Beijing Environmental-friendly Volunteer Association in 2014 to provide bridge to connect interested residents with available volunteering opportunities.
What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
The organization consistently promotes the “Drive one less day per month” campaign. The reason might be good result of limiting car on road last digit. In 2007, in the 4 days in which limiting car measure was in effect, the API (air pollution index) improved to good from lightly polluted.
What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The governmental funding enable their work as it’s affiliated with MEP. The MEP makes the education center responsible for the environmental training for local party and government leaders/
What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
The CEEC, the education center national wide, have started filmed numerous TV shows and short videos for environmental education in 1997. For example, ‘Long way to go for environmental protection’ (1997), ‘The Road to Environmental Protection in China’ and ‘Eco-Environmental Footage’ have been broadcasted one by one on TV.
What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
It doesn’t say much about the difficulty it faces on the website. But I think one challenge it faces is short-term campaign hard to achieve long-term effect. For example, “drive one less day per month” movement happened only in the month of World Environment Day, despite that it had reduced air pollution significantly on the World Environment Day.
What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
The neighborhood level government official needs to engage local residents with those educational activities that Beijing Environmental Education Center offers.
街道一级政府官员需要让当地社区居民积极参与北京环境教育中心提供的教育活动。
How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
The Asthma File can provide valuable information about the relationship between asthma rate and air pollution to promote air pollution awareness. In addition, the Asthma File can give the organization examples of infrastructures and pattern of similar organization in other parts of world to let organization use more efficient way to engage the public.
What person, group or organization is being profiled, and why are they of interest to this project?
Beijing Public Net for Environmental Protection is being profiled. The website is founded by the Beijing Environmental Education Center which was established in 1998 and affiliated with Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. The Beijing Environmental Education Center has education platform for green media, environmental education and public participation.
北京环保公众网被记录。该网站由北京市环境保护宣传中心主办。北京市环境保护宣传中心成立于1998年，隶属于 北京市环境保护局。该中心拥有绿色传媒、环境教育、公众参与的宣教平台。
What have they done – through research, or a public health program or education forum, for example-- that illustrates how they have worked to improve air pollution governance and environmental public health?
The website provides resources for the public to get involved in major environmental activities in Beijing and special topics about scientific facts and policies. It has a news section, which includes details topics about major political events and policies.
The website lists news about celebrities who were involved in environmental protection and promotes some influential environmental protection figures and Beijing environmental ambassadors.
The Internet citizens can leave message on the website. The messages are usually about reporting specific environmental issues in Beijing, giving suggestions and asking questions. While the website has responded to most of the comments, the response was usually identical, without significance and didn’t directly answer the comment.
该网站提供能让公众涉足北京的主要环境活动的资源和科普专题。它有一个新闻专题，其中包括重大的政治事件和政策的详细内容。
该网站列出参与环保的名星的新闻，并宣传一些有影响力的环保人物和北京环保大使。
网民可以在该网站上留言。消息通常是关于举报具体的北京环境问题，给建议和提问。虽然网站回应了大多数的意见，回答通常是相同的，没有意义的，并没有正面回答评论。
What timeline of events illustrates how this way of addressing environmental public health has developed?
From 2004, according to the website, Beijing Environmental Education Center started competition about environmental knowledge and photography contests to promote environmental awareness. The Education center has similar activities targeting different students groups every year. It started the campaign called “drive one less day per month” preceding the World Environment Day from 2005.
从2004年，根据该网站，北京环境教育中心开始有关环境的知识和摄影的竞赛，以加强公众环保意识。该教育中心每年都有类似的活动针对不同的学生群体。从2005年开始，在世界环境日之前，它开始被称为“我们每月少开一天车” 。
Does this person, group or organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing environmental public health? Does this approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?
No, it doesn’t.
What data have they collected or used to support their approach to environmental public health? What visualizations of this data have been created?
The education center gives out questionnaires to investigate the opinions among the public about the environmental policies and progress in solving environmental issues. The website also has the questionnaires online for people to fill out. The most recent one they have collected is the citizen satisfaction survey of Beijing air quality measures during the commemoration of 70th anniversary of victory in WWII.
该教育中心发出了问卷调查对环境政策和解决环境问题的进展征求公众的意见。在网站上也有问卷供人填写。最近的一次，他们已经收集了“抗战胜利70周年纪念活动期间北京市空气质量保障措施市民满意度调研问卷”。
What research has the organization produce or draw on in their initiatives – in the last year, and over the last decade?
The Beijing Environmental Education Center haven’t produced any research according to their website.
What kinds of technology and infrastructure do they rely on in the production of environmental health care?
The Beijing Environmental Education Center relies on the Beijing Public Net for Environmental Protection to promote its various environmental activities and explain some important policies to improve public participation.
北京环境教育中心依托北京环保公众网宣传它的各种环保活动，并解释一些重要的政策，以促进公众参与。
What social ecology does this person, group or organization work within, and how did it shaped their way of conceiving and engaging asthma?
The organization relies on interaction with the residents in Beijing to engage them in various environmental activities. For example, it founded Beijing Environmental-friendly Volunteer Association in 2014 to provide bridge to connect interested residents with available volunteering opportunities.
该组织依靠与北京市民互动，让他们参与各项环保活动。例如，于2014年它成立北京市环保志愿者协会，提供连接有兴趣的居民与志愿服务机会的桥梁。
http://www.bjee.org.cn/beva/
What events or data seem to have motivated their ways of thinking about and engaging environmental health?
The organization consistently promotes the “Drive one less day per month” campaign. The reason might be good result of limiting car on road last digit. In 2007, in the 4 days in which limiting car measure was in effect, the API (air pollution index) improved to good from lightly polluted.
该组织一直推进“每月少开一天车”的活动。究其原因可能是单双号限行汽车的好结果。在2007年，在实行单双号限行的4天的时间里，API（空气污染指数）从轻度污染提高到良。
http://www.bjee.org.cn/s_skytc_hybj/news_list.php?ID=18636
What funding enables their work and possibly shapes their way of thinking about environmental health?
The governmental funding enable their work as it’s affiliated with MEP. The MEP makes the education center responsible for the environmental training for local party and government leaders/
在政府资金支持他们的工作，因为它是隶属于环境保护部。环保部让环境保护部宣传教育中心负责为当地党政领导干部环保培训.
What in the history of this person, group or organization likely shaped the way they conceived or and engage environmental health?
The CEEC, the education center national wide, have started filmed numerous TV shows and short videos for environmental education in 1997. For example, ‘Long way to go for environmental protection’ (1997), ‘The Road to Environmental Protection in China’ and ‘Eco-Environmental Footage’ have been broadcasted one by one on TV.
环保部宣传教育中心是全国性教育中心，于1997年已经开始拍摄了大量的有关环境教育电视剧和视频短片。例如，《环境保护任重道远》（1997）、《中国环保之路》和“生态环保影片”已 一个接一个在电视上播出。
http://www.chinaeol.net/about_us/index.html
What does this person, group or organization seem to find methodologically challenging or concerning in dealing with environmental health?
It doesn’t say much about the difficulty it faces on the website. But I think one challenge it faces is short-term campaign hard to achieve long-term effect. For example, “drive one less day per month” movement happened only in the month of World Environment Day, despite that it had reduced air pollution significantly on the World Environment Day.
在网站上它并没有说太多关于它面临的的难题。但我认为它面临的一个挑战是短期的运动很难达到长期的效果。例如，“我们每月少开一天车”的运动只发生在世界环境日的当月，尽管它在世界环境日当天显著减少了空气污染。
What kinds of governance are (implicitly or explicitly) called for in the way they think about environmental health?
The neighborhood level government official needs to engage local residents with those educational activities that Beijing Environmental Education Center offers.
街道一级政府官员需要让当地社区居民积极参与北京环境教育中心提供的教育活动。
How can The Asthma Files enable or supplement this way of thinking about environmental health, and the work of this person, group or organization?
The Asthma File can provide valuable information about the relationship between asthma rate and air pollution to promote air pollution awareness. In addition, the Asthma File can give the organization examples of infrastructures and pattern of similar organization in other parts of world to let organization use more efficient way to engage the public.
哮喘文件可以提供有关空气污染和哮喘率关系的有价值的信息，以增强公众空气污染的意识。此外，哮喘文件可以给世界的其他地方类似组织基础设施和组织模式的实例，让该组织使用更有效的方式来吸引公众参与。