Can digitalization reduce industrial pollution? Roles of environmental investment and green innovation

Discriminating the non-coordination between ecosystem service value and economic development and its spatial characteristics in central Yunnan urban agglomeration in the recent 30 years

“…However, with its increasing development pace in recent years, the Central Yunnan City Cluster has faced severe ecological problems such as land desertification, soil erosion, water scarcity, mining pollution, and heavy metal contamination. Protecting the ecological environment while promoting economic development has become a key concern for the Central Yunnan City Cluster (Yang et al, 2024;Zhang et al, 2024).…”

“…The Central Yunnan Urban Agglomeration, as one of the 19 key urban agglomerations cultivated by the country, relies on the "two horizontals and three verticals" urbanization strategy, the key area of the Western Development, and the important growth pole in the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, which has promoted the rapid development of the regional economy in Central Yunnan (Zhang et al, 2023). However, with the decline in resource and energy selfsufficiency, water resource shortages, and conflicts in land use, environmental pollution has intensified in recent years, leading to significant environmental protection pressures (Yang et al, 2024;Zhang et al, 2024). Therefore, based on this background, taking the Central Yunnan Urban Agglomeration, which is facing increased pressure on resources and the environment, as the study area, this research utilizes land-use data to measure the level of ecosystem services and assess the non-coordination and spatial correlation between ecosystem service value and economic development.…”

The spatial spillover effect of green technology innovation on water pollution–evidence from 283 Chinese cities

“…Ehrlich and Holdren (1971) point out that technological advances could mitigate the growth of pollution engendered by population growth. Besides traditional technological advances, Yang et al (2023) observe that enterprises are equally benefiting from the reduction of pollutant emissions as they adopt digital technologies. However, Brookes (1978Brookes ( , 1990 and Khazzoom (1980) argue that energy savings resulting from energy efficiency improvements may be negated by increased energy consumption due to behavioral responses of economic individuals.…”

Does Digitalization Facilitate Environmental Governance Performance? An Empirical Analysis Based on the PLS-SEM Model in China

“…For the study of digital technology and environmental governance, the domestic literature in this field mainly focuses on the Internet, the development of information technology, environmental big data and other changes in environmental governance. The main areas of focus of these studies are as follows: improving the quality of the environment through the development of information technology and promoting the sustainable development of society and economy; the widespread application of data technology to promote the informatization of government environmental supervision and the dynamization of environmental monitoring [15], which demonstrates the wisdom of environmental governance; the development of information technology to promote the transformation of enterprises in an environmentally friendly direction by using green technological innovations, and the improvement of environmental governance through the integration of elemental resources and technological innovations [16][17][18]; and using the Internet to realize the real-time sharing of environmental information, and the innovation of ways and channels for public participation in environmental governance [19]. Big data can be used to facilitate the synergistic environmental governance of multiple economic agents and form a multifaceted model.…”