Environmental governance effects of local environmental protection expenditure in China

Fan, Wei; Liu, Yan; Chen, Boyang; Ding, Wangwang; Wang, Ping

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102760

Cited by 73 publications

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“…Comparing the two subsystems, we could interpret that the regions with relatively low performances in higher education can achieve relatively high environmental governance (Inner Mongolia and Guizhou). Such results are somehow inconsistent with the former studies, which believe that regions in western China are almost weak in higher education, and the environmental governance among regions is not much balanced [ 72 , 73 ]. Such differences are mainly because this study selects indicators from the perspective of "per capita," thus reducing the performance differences caused by significant population variations and obtaining more accurate results.…”

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Coupling coordination between higher education and environmental governance: Evidence of western China

Geng

Huang

2022

PLoS ONE

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Exploring the coupling coordination mechanism between higher education and environmental governance is conducive to understanding the mutual interactions between them and thus enhancing mutual development. This study constructs the coupling coordination mechanism and the aggregated evaluation index system to measure the mutual coordination relations between them, assesses the performances and the coupling coordination degrees between them in the case of western provincial regions in China, and proposes countermeasures based on the prediction results. It is found that the performances of higher education are relatively more stable than those of environmental governance, and the distributions of the average performance grades exist noticeable geographical differences. Besides, the coupling coordination degrees increase with mild fluctuations with relatively small spatial variations, demonstrating the balanced and similar coordinated development status among regions; furthermore, in the future, the gaps in the coordination status among regions will gradually decline. This study highlights the mutual coordination mechanism between the two subsystems, compares the coupling coordination status among regions both temporally and spatially, and proposes specific, generalizable development suggestions that contribute to the academic sector, policymakers, ecology, and sustainability.

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Coupling coordination between higher education and environmental governance: Evidence of western China

Geng

Huang

2022

PLoS ONE

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“…GDP is usually the main indicator of a country’s overall economic growth. According to previous studies [ 22 , 23 ], this paper used per capita GDP to measure the economic growth of each province. Provinces in China have heterogenous levels of economic development, resulting in various industrial structures and wastewater pollutants.…”

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The Effect of Governance on Industrial Wastewater Pollution in China

Shi

Huang

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Water pollution not only aggravates the deterioration of the ecological environment and endanger human health, but also has a significantly negative impact on economic growth and social development. It is crucial to investigate the relationship between industrial wastewater governance and industrial wastewater pollution on the path to reduce water pollution. In this paper, we studied whether industrial wastewater governance affected industrial wastewater pollution using the panel fixed effect model and system generalized moment estimation model (SYS-GMM) with the panel data of 30 provinces from 2005 to 2020 in China. This is the only empirical analysis of the relationship between industrial wastewater governance and industrial wastewater pollution. We proxied industrial wastewater pollution by organic pollutants and inorganic pollutants and measured the per capita investment in industrial wastewater governance. The results shed light on the positive correlation between the per capita investment in industrial wastewater governance and industrial wastewater pollution. The increase in per capita investment in industrial wastewater governance promoted the increase of pollutant emissions from industrial wastewater. The estimation also indicated that there was an inverted U-shaped relationship between per capita GDP and inorganic /organic pollutants in industrial wastewater. Our empirical research shows that it is necessary to increase investment in industrial wastewater treatment and optimize the investment structure of environmental treatment, so as to pave the way for the comprehensive utilization of a variety of environmental treatment solutions.

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“…China's pollution control currently relies heavily on government regulation, especially on the revenue and expenditure activities of governments at all levels (Chai et al, 2020; Ma et al, 2019). In particular, environmental protection expenditure is the most common governmental expenditure related to environmental regulation (Fan et al, 2022). 5 Therefore, consistent with prior literature (e.g., Zhang, Zheng, & Kong, 2019), we use the amount of expenditure on environmental protection in each province's fiscal expenditure to measure environmental regulation.…”

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Top management teams' foreign experience, environmental regulation, and firms' green innovation

Zhang

Zhao

et al. 2023

Business Ethics Env & Resp

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In this study, we examine how top management teams' foreign experience affects firms' green innovation performance and what role environmental regulation plays in their association. Using a large data set on firms' green patents and foreign work or education experience of top management teams from China, we find robust evidence that firms whose top management team members have foreign experience achieve significantly more green patents, and this positive relationship is more pronounced for firms subject to strong environmental regulation. Our findings indicate that via enhancing firms' green innovation performance, top management teams' foreign experience has a positive corporate governance effect on advancing sustainable social development, and environmental regulation is helpful to promote this effect.

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Environmental governance effects of local environmental protection expenditure in China

Cited by 73 publications

References 46 publications

Coupling coordination between higher education and environmental governance: Evidence of western China

Coupling coordination between higher education and environmental governance: Evidence of western China

The Effect of Governance on Industrial Wastewater Pollution in China

Top management teams' foreign experience, environmental regulation, and firms' green innovation

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