Economic growth, environmental sustainability and China mayors' promotion

Pu, Zhengning; Fu, Jiasha

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.162

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“…This laid the foundation for further economic development without lessening the chances of future generations having access to similar resources. Legislation was changed as well, with the result that the policies of the Chinese government focused on environment governance (Pu and Fu, 2018). The success of these Chinese policies is mirrored in the shift "from a centrally-planned economy to a market-oriented economy" (Li et al, 2018, p. 582).…”

Section: Proclivity For Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Consumer Green Behaviour on Green Loyalty Among Retail Formats: A Romanian Case Study

Dabija

Bejan

Grant

2018

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Customer loyalty enables companies to outperform competitors and better satisfy customers’ needs and desires. People today are increasingly interested in buying green or sustainable products, pursuing responsible consumption, getting involved in environmental protection activities and preserving resources. These key elements of sustainability are crucial in retailer strategies for approaching customers, strategies encompassing both communication and well-structured offers of sustainable, green and environmentally friendly products to gain customers’ loyalty and assist them in adopting responsible (green) consumption behaviours. This may not be the case in all retail markets or sub-markets, however. This paper investigates these issues in the context of the emerging European economy of Romania, using a survey conducted in four major retail segments comprising more than 3,000 respondents. Using structural equation modelling the authors reveal that Romanian retailers are concerned with drawing customers and gaining their loyalty by adopting strategies based on the principles of sustainability. The results indicate that in this emerging market behavioural antecedents differ across the analysed retail formats in building green loyalty, which represents a challenge for retailers in their attempt to draw, satisfy and bind consumers to their retail formats and stores. At the same time, there is also a growing awareness of green aspects among Eastern Europeans, even if they have been challenged with sustainability issues and the need to adopt green behaviours more recently than their Western European counterparts.

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Section: Proclivity For Environmental Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Consumer Green Behaviour on Green Loyalty Among Retail Formats: A Romanian Case Study

Dabija

Bejan

Grant

2018

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…Therefore, the younger local officials, the higher expectations of promotion (Bu et al, 2016). To catch more promotion opportunities, young officials may prefer economic development to environmental protection, with the consequence of increasing carbon emissions (He et al, 2018;Pu and Fu, 2018). Our results indicate that after this turning point of 46.57 years old, the promotion incentives reduced markedly.…”

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The influence of local officials' promotion incentives on carbon emission in Yangtze River Delta, China

Meng

Huang

Yang

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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China's carbon emissions is heavily influenced by economic growth, which can be largely related to the local officials' promotion incentives. The current study was conducted to test the hypothesis that the influence of local officials' individual characteristics on carbon emissions was driven by the promotion incentives. Yangtze River Delta where carbon emissions accounted for around 13.95% of China's total emissions was selected as the research area. The multiple linear regression model was applied to determine the relationship between local officials' characteristics and total carbon emissions and carbon emissions from different sectors. The results indicated that local officials' promotion source, tenure and age significantly influenced the total carbon emission. Despite insignificance influence of officials' academic level on carbon emissions, the professional background in economics and management had a significant influence on carbon reduction. Our results indicated the importance of local officials' promotion incentives for carbon emission in China. Therefore, low carbon development should be included as an important part of official promotion system.

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“…We should not only supervise local government officials' emphasis on local environmental pollution control, but also conduct spot checks on the achievements of pollution control with reference to whistleblowers' feedback. Compared with developed countries, currently the local air pollution control performance in China does not have much weight in the promotion of local government officials [62,63]. In future policy design, it is recommended that bonus points be given to local government officials that work hard on environment improvement and air pollution control in promotion evaluation, or lower the requirements on economic indicators in performance assessment.…”

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Does Whistleblowing Work for Air Pollution Control in China? A Study Based on Three-party Evolutionary Game Model under Incomplete Information

Yang

2019

Sustainability

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During China's air pollution campaign, whistleblowing has become an important way for the central government to discover local environmental issues. The three parties involved in whistleblowing are: the central government environmental protection departments, the local government officials, and the whistleblowers. Based on these players, this paper has constructed an Evolutionary Game Model under incomplete information and introduced the expected return as well as replicator dynamics equations of various game agents based on analysis of the game agents, assumptions, and payoff functions of the model in order to study the strategic dynamic trend and stability of the evolutionary game model. Furthermore, this paper has conducted simulation experiments on the evolution of game agents' behaviors by combining the constraints and replicator dynamics equations. The conclusions are: the central environmental protection departments are able to effectively improve the environmental awareness of local government officials by measures such as strengthening punishment on local governments that do not pay attention to pollution issues and lowering the cost of whistleblowing, thus nurturing a good governance and virtuous circle among the central environmental protection departments, local government officials, and whistleblowers. Based on the study above, this paper has provided policy recommendations in the conclusion.

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Economic growth, environmental sustainability and China mayors' promotion

Cited by 145 publications

References 12 publications

The Impact of Consumer Green Behaviour on Green Loyalty Among Retail Formats: A Romanian Case Study

The Impact of Consumer Green Behaviour on Green Loyalty Among Retail Formats: A Romanian Case Study

The influence of local officials' promotion incentives on carbon emission in Yangtze River Delta, China

Does Whistleblowing Work for Air Pollution Control in China? A Study Based on Three-party Evolutionary Game Model under Incomplete Information

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