Can High-Speed Rail Help Achieve Urban Green Development? From a Spatial Perspective

Liu, Shuai; Zhang, Yumeng

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2022.894697

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“…In China, the challenge is more related to air pollution caused by burning coal for energy. This has led to increased respiratory illnesses among citizens living near railway lines and an overall decrease in air quality (Liu et al, 2022). Additionally, China's rapid economic growth has increased demand for railway transportation, leading to overcrowding on existing lines and further exacerbating air pollution issues (The World Bank, 2014).…”

Section: Environmental Challengesmentioning

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Border Region Railway Development in Sino- Indian Geopolitical Competition

Shrivastva

Roy

Ashok

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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India and China share about 3,488 km long International Boundary, which has three sectors: Western, Middle and Eastern. The Eastern sector comprises two Northeastern states, that is, Arunachal Pradesh measuring 1,124 kms and Sikkim measuring 219 kms, respectively. Due to recent changes in the geopolitical relationship with China, border management and transport infrastructure development have occupied centre stage. In recent years, the Government of India has taken initiatives to develop railway infrastructure in Northeast India. The study will focus on the role of railway transportation in Sino-Indian geopolitical competition. The study is based on secondary data collected from the office of General Manager, Northeast Frontier Railway, the Census of India and reports of Memorandums of Understanding between India and China. The study reveals that railway infrastructure along the border creates geo-psychological pressures on both countries, influencing the divergent geopolitical relationship between India and China. Railway diplomacy is a tool kit of critical geopolitics which reveals the contours of geopolitical competition in borderlands.

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Section: Environmental Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border Region Railway Development in Sino- Indian Geopolitical Competition

Shrivastva

Roy

Ashok

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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“…First, the informatization construction, innovation base construction, and policy support along the HSR can all improve the ecological environment and conditions for urban innovation, providing more stable and long-term support for urban innovation [36]. Next, the opening of an HSR can promote green exchanges and cooperation between cities, strengthen the interactions and connections between cities, and promote the dissemination and exchange of green technologies, products, and services [37]. Due to the convenience and efficiency of the HSR, urban residents can more easily carry out cross-city green exchanges and cooperation and accelerate the promotion and application of green technologies and products [38].…”

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The Impact of Opening a High-Speed Railway on Urban Innovation: A Comparative Perspective of Traditional Innovation and Green Innovation

Ma,

Tan,

2023

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Transportation infrastructure is essential to regional innovation systems, and the high-speed railway (HSR) is reshaping China’s regional innovation pattern. Previous research lacks an analysis of the impact of opening an HSR on urban traditional and green innovation. This paper uses urban panel data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2019 to study the impact and mechanism of opening an HSR on urban innovation from a comparative perspective. The results of a multi-period difference-in-difference (DID) model show that opening an HSR can promote both traditional and green urban innovation, especially impacting urban green innovation. A further analysis of the mechanism of action found that high-quality talent and communication infrastructures are two crucial mechanisms of transmission for the opening of an HSR to affect urban innovation. In addition, heterogeneity analysis showed that opening an HSR promotes traditional urban and green innovation for cities in general. However, for central cities, the opening of an HSR has no significant impact on green innovation and has little effect on promoting traditional innovation. The policy inspiration of this paper is that, in the face of an innovation gap and the inequality of regional innovation and development, the construction of HSRs should be promoted according to local conditions. Construction and layout resources should be shifted from central cities to general cities to narrow the regional innovation gap. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the roles of the flow of high-quality talent and communication infrastructure in promoting urban innovation and sustainable urban development.

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Digital economy and urban green development: A quasi-natural experiment based on national big data comprehensive pilot zone

Wang,

Shao

2024

Energy & Environment

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As the engine of economic growth in the modern age, the digital economy plays an indispensable role in boosting the green development of cities. In this research, the difference in difference model and the spatial Durbin difference in difference (SDMDID) model are utilized to empirically examine the influence of digital economy on urban green development by employing the national big data comprehensive pilot zone as a quasi-natural experiment. In addition, its mechanism of action is further investigated from the standpoint of industrial structure upgrading, technical innovation, and human capital. The findings demonstrate that the degree of urban green development has consistently increased over the research sample, and there were clear disparities across areas; the implementation of the national big data comprehensive pilot zone has a significant role in promoting the green development of cities, and the policy effect on central cities and small and medium-sized cities is significantly higher than that of other types of cities; SDMDID model research found that the implementation of the national big data comprehensive pilot zone has a spatial effect; the mechanism test shows that the implementation of the national big data comprehensive pilot zone can promote the improvement of urban green development by promoting the upgrading of industrial structure and improving the level of technological innovation, while the mechanism of human capital has not yet emerged.

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Can High-Speed Rail Help Achieve Urban Green Development? From a Spatial Perspective

Cited by 3 publications

References 110 publications

Border Region Railway Development in Sino- Indian Geopolitical Competition

Border Region Railway Development in Sino- Indian Geopolitical Competition

The Impact of Opening a High-Speed Railway on Urban Innovation: A Comparative Perspective of Traditional Innovation and Green Innovation

Digital economy and urban green development: A quasi-natural experiment based on national big data comprehensive pilot zone

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