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Governing Ecological Value in China: State-Created Markets and Public Value
How can public authorities make ecological resources governable and economically actionable without reducing nature to an ordinary commodity? This study examines ecological product value realization (EPVR) in China through 58 official domestic cases. Constructivist grounded-theory coding, Gioia-style data structuring, cross-batch mapping, documentary triangulation, and coding-consistency checks identify five recurrent and interdependent governance functions: institutional recognition, value articulation, governed m …