Evaluating urban ecological civilization and its obstacle factors based on integrated model of PSR-EVW-TOPSIS: A case study of 13 cities in Jiangsu Province, China

Wang, Di; Li, Yuman; Yang, Xiaodi; Zhang, Zhiyuan; Gao, Shuangting; Zhou, Qianhan; Yao, Zhuo; Wen, Xinchen; Guo, Zhenyu

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108431

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“…Under the fiscal decentralization system, local governments must develop the economy and improve people’s livelihoods in the meantime. Therefore, it is necessary to coordinate the relationship between economic development and environmental protection [ 22 , 23 , 24 ], and whether “race to the bottom” or “race to the top” lies in the development orientation of the local government. After the reform of fiscal decentralization, local governments that take economic growth as the development orientation tend to pursue economic interests one-sidedly and ignore environmental protection, engaging in a “race to the bottom”.…”

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“…Local governments should gradually build a green performance evaluation mechanism to break down the administrative barriers to cooperative governance of air pollution and bring into play the spatial spillover effects of green technological innovation, so as to achieve high-quality regional economic development and continuous improvement of environmental quality. Especially for highly polluted regions, such as the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region and the Fenwei Plain, it is imperative to establish a green GDP-oriented performance evaluation mechanism [ 24 ], gradually incorporate the supply of public products such as environmental quality and environmental governance investment into the performance target evaluation system and strengthen the environmental governance accountability mechanism, such as out-of-service audits. Secondly, the government should encourage enterprises to carry out independent innovation of dedicated emission reduction technologies in the form of R&D subsidies and encourage the application of general-purpose green technologies among governments through financial subsidies or tax incentives, so as to give full play the spatial spillover effect of green technologies.…”

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Fiscal Decentralization, Green Technology Innovation, and Regional Air Pollution in China: An Investigation from the Perspective of Intergovernmental Competition

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Fiscal decentralization (FD), as an institutional arrangement for the fiscal division between central and local governments, gives local governments the enthusiasm and autonomy to provide public products and services. With the dominance of environmental governance, how local governments can avoid intergovernmental “race to the bottom” issues through green technology innovation (GTI) is a matter of regional green development and continuous improvement of atmospheric environmental quality. Based on a sample of 30 provinces in China from 2003 to 2018, this paper uses the spatial Durbin model (SDM) to examine the relationship between FD, GTI, and regional air pollution and explores their spatial spillover effect and regional heterogeneity from the perspective of intergovernmental competition. The results indicate that the FD and GTI in various provinces had significant and regionally differentiated inhibitory effects on local air pollution. In Western China, due to the regional competition among local governments in terms of economic development, economic development-oriented fiscal expenditures crowd out environmental governance-oriented fiscal expenditures, which has led to the consequence that FD can intensify local air pollution and has a positive spillover effect, but the demonstration effect of green technological innovation can well moderate the effect of FD on air pollution. FD in the eastern region has played a positive role in promoting regional air quality improvement. However, its green technological innovation has not played a positive role in reducing emissions, and it plays a significant negative regulatory role in the emission reduction effect led by FD. Finally, the article puts forward policy recommendations in terms of a fiscal decentralization system, green technological innovation, and performance evaluation mechanism.

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Fiscal Decentralization, Green Technology Innovation, and Regional Air Pollution in China: An Investigation from the Perspective of Intergovernmental Competition

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“…The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and the Central Economic Work Conference have put forward precise requirements for achieving the synergistic effect of pollution reduction and carbon reduction [ 6 ]. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, China’s ecological and environmental protection will enter a new stage of synergistic governance of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, and how to achieve these goals has become the focus of social attention [ 7 ]. China’s greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts were carried out late, and for a long time, China did not carry out coordinated treatment of greenhouse gases and pollutants.…”

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Can China’s Carbon Emissions Trading System Achieve the Synergistic Effect of Carbon Reduction and Pollution Control?

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Achieving synergistic governance of air pollution treatment and greenhouse gas emission reduction is the way for the Chinese government to achieve green transformational development. Against this background, this paper takes the implementation of the carbon emissions trading system (ETS) as the breakthrough point, using the time-varying difference-in-differences (DID) model to explore the synergistic emission reduction effect of ETS on air pollution and carbon emissions and its mechanism. The results indicate that the implementation of ETS not only significantly reduces CO2 emissions but also synergistically achieves the reduction of air pollutants, and the synergistic emission reduction effect is mainly achieved through the synergistic reduction of SO2. Moreover, the emission reduction effect of ETS has economic and regional heterogeneity. On the one hand, the ETS has a more prominent carbon reduction effect in less developed provinces and cities and has a significant synergistic emission reduction effect on SO2 and PM2.5; on the other hand, the carbon emission reduction effect of ETS is more potent in Beijing, Hubei, and Shanghai, followed by Tianjin and Chongqing, and the weakest in Guangdong. In addition, through the analysis of the mediating effect, this paper finds that reducing energy consumption, optimizing the energy structure, and improving energy efficiency are effective ways for ETS to achieve synergistic emission reduction. This study provides valuable policy enlightenment for promoting the synergistic governance of pollution and carbon reduction.

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“…Among them, the social and economic dimensions were often adopted, while the ecological dimension was separated into the resource, energy, or environmental aspects, which were evaluated selectively based on evaluation contents. Significantly, the cultural dimension was always ignored [45]. Chinese ECC advocates for the "five-pronged approach to building socialism with Chinese characteristics" in relation to social, economic, political, cultural, and ecological progress.…”

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Assessing the Spatiotemporal Development of Ecological Civilization for China’s Sustainable Development

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The ecological civilization strategy in China has accelerated its national sustainability. However, few systematic evaluations of Chinese Ecological Civilization Construction (ECC) have provided detailed and timely information regarding estimations of the sustainable development levels. Here, we combined indicators and policies of the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs) with Chinese ecological civilization and built an integrated assessment system with mixed indicators for evaluating the sustainable development levels in five dimensions (i.e., economy, society, ecology, culture, and institutions). Based on the acquired sustainability index from the system, we revealed the spatiotemporal transitions at the national and provincial levels from 2005 to 2019 in China. Specifically, both the national and provincial ECC temporally increased in this period, while spatially, the development performance of ECC was differentiated across provinces and regions. In particular, sustainable trajectories in east China and coastal regions presented better than the west and inland. Moreover, we identified the different dimensional contributions between the top and bottom provinces in ECC development. The results showed that the institutional, social, and cultural dimensions created more effects than the economic and ecological dimensions. By analyzing the provincial development patterns, we recommend the comprehensive development of ECC across the five dimensions and suggest that addressing weak dimensions is a priority. The proposed system will elevate the sustainable development strategies and pave the way for the broadening of the framework’s application to other regions and countries in the future.

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Evaluating urban ecological civilization and its obstacle factors based on integrated model of PSR-EVW-TOPSIS: A case study of 13 cities in Jiangsu Province, China

Cited by 85 publications

References 37 publications

Fiscal Decentralization, Green Technology Innovation, and Regional Air Pollution in China: An Investigation from the Perspective of Intergovernmental Competition

Fiscal Decentralization, Green Technology Innovation, and Regional Air Pollution in China: An Investigation from the Perspective of Intergovernmental Competition

Can China’s Carbon Emissions Trading System Achieve the Synergistic Effect of Carbon Reduction and Pollution Control?

Assessing the Spatiotemporal Development of Ecological Civilization for China’s Sustainable Development

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