Carbon emissions reduction effects of sustainable development policy in resource-based cities from the perspective of resource dependence: Theory and Chinese experience

Zheng, Heyun; Ge, Li‐Ping

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102799

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“…According to the results in Table 6, the impact of ICP on tfp, green_inn and iu are 0.252 (p < 0.01), 1.376 (p < 0.01) and 0.191 (p < 0.01), which all pass the 1% significance test. This shows that government innovation support can significantly improve the urban total factor productivity, green innovation, and industrial upgrading, which are consistent with the study of Xu et al (2021) Zheng and Ge (2022). In addition, the results hold that the coefficients of tfp, green_inn and iu are 0.018 (p < 0.01), 0.008 (p < 0.01) and 0.033 (p < 0.01).…”

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Assessing the effectiveness of innovative city pilots in improving urban carbon emission performance: A spatial difference-in-difference approach

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Tan³

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Existing studies have focused on the impact of innovation on carbon emission performance but ignore the importance of government support for innovation. To overcome this challenge, this paper adopts a spatial difference-in-difference (DID) model to assess the impact of government support for innovation on urban carbon emission performance based on a quasi-natural experiment of innovative city pilots (ICP) in China. Using the high-resolution carbon emission data of 1 km × 1 km for 238 cities from 2008 to 2019 in China, this paper employees an extended stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) model to measure urban carbon emission performance. Our findings indicate that ICP implementation leads to a 1.3% improvement in local carbon emission performance. Meanwhile, there is a significant spatial spillover effect of ICP implementation, with a 3.3% improvement in the carbon performance of the surrounding areas. The results of the mechanism analysis suggest that government innovation support affects carbon emission performance by promoting total factor productivity improvement, green innovation, and industrial upgrading. Further analysis shows that ICP has the strongest impact on carbon performance in the eastern region, and the impact is stronger for large cities and resource-dependent cities. Finally, the paper carries out a series of robustness tests to ensure the reliability of the analytical results, including parallel trend tests, placebo tests and re-estimation of different methods. Based on the findings, this paper proposes feasible policy recommendations in terms of continuous promotion of government innovation support, regional cooperation and differentiated innovation support formulation.

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Assessing the effectiveness of innovative city pilots in improving urban carbon emission performance: A spatial difference-in-difference approach

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“…On the other hand, Zhou et al (2022) suggested that RBCs with low carbon as the goal can enhance carbon emission efficiency, which will help to promote carbon emission reduction and achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality in advance. Similar findings can be found in Zhang M. et al (2022), and Zheng and Ge (2022). Many scholars support this view and argue that China's achievement of carbon peak and carbon neutrality depends on RBC's low-carbon development (Ma et al, 2021;Guo, 2021;Liao et al, 2022).…”

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“…(2016), this paper can provide a more comprehensive overview of the development history of the Northeast region. Second, although the quantitative research methods used in Frontiers in Environmental Science frontiersin.org Zhang M. et al (2022) (Zhang H. et al, 2022) and Zheng and Ge. (2022) did not be used, this paper, similar to Sunikka (2006) and Liu and Gallagher (2010), is an exploratory approach to considering what policies governments in developing countries can adopt to guide the development of RBCs in the context of the "paradox" of economic transformation and environmental protection.…”

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Environmental dilemma and sustainable development of resource-based cities: A case study from northeast china

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Cao

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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With ambitious carbon peak and carbon neutral targets, China has to realize it relies heavily on significant reductions in energy-related carbon emissions. Therefore, as the largest contributing region, resource-based cities (RBCs) must achieve an energy transition. Unfortunately, these cities are facing serious environmental problems. The aim of this study is to analyze the development history and problems of RBCs by using the example of the Northeast region. The results show the reasons blocking the green development of these cities include management policies and life cycles. This implies the management of RBCs needs to develop toward a win-win situation of industrial transformation and ecological protection. Finally, some policy recommendations are proposed to achieve emission reduction and sustainable development.

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“…For every 1% increase in the subdivision index coefficient, the corresponding industrial transformation coefficients will increase by 0.2%, 0.224% and 0.153% respectively. Columns (10), (11) and ( 12) respectively represent the regression results of RIS with the subdivision index as the core explanatory variable. The results show that DIF has an inhibitory effect on RIS, indicating that it plays a negative role in stimulating IT.…”

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“…It should note that the long-term extensive development model has brought a series of problems, for example, the exhaustion of urban leading industries has led to negative economic growth [ 6 ], declining of employment rate [ 7 ], diminishing marginal returns [ 8 ], imbalance of industrial structure [ 9 ] and other problems. In particular, the problem of resource curse is prominent in resource-based cities [ 10 ]. Therefore, it is necessary to solve the above problems through the realization of industrial transformation, because industrial transformation can transfer low productivity sectors to high productivity sectors, thus forming technology-intensive and knowledge-intensive industries [ 11 ].…”

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Does digital inclusive finance promote industrial transformation? New evidence from 115 resource-based cities in China

Liu

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PLoS ONE

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Industrial transformation (IT) is the inevitable course for the sustainable development of resource-based cities, while digital inclusive finance (DIF) provides essential capital elements for industrial transformation. Based on the panel data of 115 resource-based cities in China from 2011 to 2019, this paper discusses the influence mechanism of digital inclusive finance on industrial transformation from the perspectives of the optimization of industrial structure (OIS) and the rationalization of industrial structure (RIS). The empirical results show that digital inclusive finance has a positive effect on both the optimization of industrial structure and the rationalization of industrial structure. Digital inclusive finance influences industrial transformation through residents’ income and technological innovation. In addition, in the analysis of income gap and innovation gap, low-income regions have a better effect on the industrial transformation of industrial structure optimization, while high-income regions have a better effect in manufacturing upgrading, thus resulting in a more significant effect of industrial transformation on the rationalization of industrial structure. Obviously, the development of high-innovation regions has relative advantages with more channels for industrial transformation, which have significant effect of industrial transformation. Therefore, it is necessary to provide differentiated reform on the basis of unified development reform.

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Carbon emissions reduction effects of sustainable development policy in resource-based cities from the perspective of resource dependence: Theory and Chinese experience

Cited by 61 publications

References 50 publications

Assessing the effectiveness of innovative city pilots in improving urban carbon emission performance: A spatial difference-in-difference approach

Assessing the effectiveness of innovative city pilots in improving urban carbon emission performance: A spatial difference-in-difference approach

Environmental dilemma and sustainable development of resource-based cities: A case study from northeast china

Does digital inclusive finance promote industrial transformation? New evidence from 115 resource-based cities in China

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