High-speed rail accessibility and haze pollution in China: A spatial econometrics perspective

Zhang, Fan; Wang, Feng; Yao, Shujie

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2021.102802

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“…The exacerbation of urban haze pollution and its serious consequences have stimulated scholars' enthusiasm for the research on the causes [7], formation mechanisms [8], sources [9][10][11], and influencing factors of haze pollution [12][13][14][15]. Generally, the influencing factors include economic growth [16][17][18], transportation construction [19][20][21], urbanization [22,23], industrial agglomeration [24,25], energy intensity [5,16,26,27], FDI [28], trade liberalization [29], technological progress [30], environmental regulation [31][32][33], and other meteorological factors [34][35][36]. Xu and Lin [5] adopted panel data models to study the main driving forces of PM2.5, involving economic growth, urbanization, private cars, coal consumption, and energy efficiency, and also analyzed the regional heterogeneity in China.…”

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Does Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Alleviate Urban Haze Pollution? Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Yan

Zhao

Yang

et al. 2021

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As a comprehensive environmental regulation, the low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCP) may have an impact on haze pollution. The evaluation of the effectiveness of LCCP on haze pollution is greatly significant for air pollution prevention and control. Taking LCCP as the starting point, in this study we constructed DID, PSM-DID, and intermediary effect models to empirically test the impact and mechanism of LCCP on haze pollution, based on the panel data of 271 cities in China from 2005 to 2018. The findings show that (1) LCCP has significantly reduced the urban haze pollution, and the average annual concentration of PM2.5 in pilot cities decreased by 14.29%. (2) LCCP can inhibit haze pollution by promoting technological innovation, upgrading the industrial structure, and reducing energy consumption. Among these impacts, the effect of technological innovation is the strongest, followed by industrial structure, and energy consumption. (3) LCCP has significantly curbed the haze pollution of non-resource dependent cities, Eastern cities, and large cities, but exerted little impact on resource-dependent cities, Central and Western regions, and small and medium-sized cities. (4) LCCP has a spatial spillover effect. It can inhibit the haze pollution of adjacent cities through demonstration and warning effects. This study enriches the relevant research on LCCP and provides empirical support and policy enlightenment for pollution reduction.

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Does Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Alleviate Urban Haze Pollution? Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Yan

Zhao

Yang

et al. 2021

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“…The location entropy index can reflect specific industrial agglomeration development advantages in a particular region. The specific calculation formula is: (9) where i means different cities in three major urban agglomerations, j(1, 2, 3, • • • , m) represents the industrial sector, maggl ij represents the agglomeration degree in the industry j in the city i, and L ij represents the economic scale of the industry j in the city i. Generally speaking, a location entropy index greater than one indicates that the region's manufacturing industry tends to agglomerate.…”

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“…On the one hand, high-speed rail generates less carbon dioxide emissions than civil aviation, automobile, and other transportation modes [6,7]. On the other hand, large-scale high-speed rail construction will significantly reduce transportation costs and promote the flow of talent, capital, and technology, thus promoting regional technological innovation and reducing the environmental pollution of enterprise production [8,9].…”

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“…Secondly, high-speed rail construction has dramatically reduced transportation costs, bringing industrial agglomeration [8]. It will benefit the upgrading of regional industrial structures and further reduce the emission of environmental pollutants [9,13,14].…”

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“…Thirdly, the construction of high-speed rail is also conducive to the flow of labor, capital, technology, and other factors. On the one hand, with the weakening of the barriers to factor flow, factor allocation efficiency has been dramatically improved, thus reducing the emission intensity of industrial pollution [9,15]. On the other hand, reducing transportation costs is conducive to the technical connection between regions and promotes regional technological innovation.…”

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Impact of High-Speed Rail Construction on the Environmental Sustainability of China’s Three Major Urban Agglomerations

Zhu

Zhou

et al. 2022

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Under the background of global warming, it is of great significance to explore how to realize environmentally sustainable development. This paper takes China’s three major urban agglomerations as the research objects: Yangtze River Delta, Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, and Pearl River Delta. Generally, we use carbon emission efficiency to represent the sustainable development of the environment. Then we use the city-level panel data of the three urban agglomerations from 2006 to 2019 to construct the slacks-based measure integrating data envelopment (SBM-DEA) model for calculating each city’s carbon dioxide emission efficiency. Finally, we construct the spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model to explore the impact of high-speed rail construction on each urban agglomeration’s carbon dioxide emission efficiency and its internal mechanism. The findings are as follows: (1) On the whole, high-speed rail construction improves urban agglomerations’ carbon dioxide emission efficiency. Meanwhile, it has a positive spatial spillover effect on surrounding areas. (2) In terms of urban agglomerations, high-speed rail construction has significantly promoted carbon emission efficiency in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. However, it has had negative external effects on the surrounding areas. (3) From the perspective of mechanism analysis, the construction of high-speed rail has promoted manufacturing agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta region and, at the same time, has had a negative impact on the local carbon dioxide emission efficiency. This study has strong policy implications for promoting the sustainable development of the three major urban agglomerations.

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The Effects of High-Speed Rail on the Real Estate Market for Residential Use: A Comparison of Medium-Sized and Metropolitan Cities in Italy

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Mauriello,

Pagliara

2024

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

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High-speed rail accessibility and haze pollution in China: A spatial econometrics perspective

Cited by 61 publications

References 47 publications

Does Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Alleviate Urban Haze Pollution? Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Does Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Alleviate Urban Haze Pollution? Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

Impact of High-Speed Rail Construction on the Environmental Sustainability of China’s Three Major Urban Agglomerations

The Effects of High-Speed Rail on the Real Estate Market for Residential Use: A Comparison of Medium-Sized and Metropolitan Cities in Italy

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