How does regional integration development affect green innovation? Evidence from China's major urban agglomerations

Tan, Feiquan; Gong, Chunyan; Niu, Zhiyuan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134613

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“…Hence, it is imperative to harness the full potential of core cities in the urban agglomeration to effectively reduce emissions 60 . This can be achieved by bolstering their leadership and driving capabilities, fostering better communication and cooperation between core cities and surrounding cities 61 , promoting the utilization of complementary strengths among cities, and collaborating with surrounding cities to enhance their capacity for emission reduction 62 . We have formulated a sustainable and environmentally-friendly development strategy for the YRD urban agglomeration.…”

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Sustainable Development Pathways for Energies in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

Xie,

Xu,

et al. 2023

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Urban agglomerations consume energy from various sectors，such as transportation sector, industry sector, and building sector. Meanwhile, the exchange and optimization of energy consumption in these sectors contributes to the sustainable development of urban agglomeration energy systems. However, the overall impact of the cross-sector energy optimization and complementarity has not been quantitatively analyzed. Here, we focused on the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) urban agglomeration in China and proposed an optimization framework for energy, environment, and economy. The framework considered four perspectives: transportation sector, power sector, industry sector, and building sector, in order to determine the most sustainable development path for the urban agglomeration. We found that this strategy resulted in a 53.1 billion tons increase in CO2 emissions reduction in the region. The results of emission reduction varied across sectors, ranging from 4.5 to 22.2 billion tons CO2 equivalent, and across cities, ranging from 7.1 to 4688.1 Mt. The results suggest that the core cities in the urban agglomeration can take on a leadership role. By promoting cross-sector collaboration and implementing energy recycling, the energy efficiency of surrounding cities can be greatly improved, leading to the sustainable development of the urban agglomeration.

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Sustainable Development Pathways for Energies in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

Xie,

Xu,

et al. 2023

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“…Combined with the urbanization development characteristics of urban agglomerations (Fang and Yu, 2017), this paper believes that urban population size, economic development, industrial structure, technological level, and investment are the main influencing factors of green urbanization efficiency in urban agglomeration (Ningyi Liu, 2022;Tan et al, 2022;Wang Y. et al, 2021). Specific indexes are selected as shown in Table 4.…”

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“…It is currently the main form of urbanization, and developers must pay more attention to green methods. By 2020, the 18 urban agglomerations recognized in China's planned growth only accounted for 29.1% of the national area, but they produced more than 80% of GDP and actually utilized 92% of total foreign investment, which constitutes absolute support for China's development (Tan et al, 2022). However, the overall development of cities in urban agglomerations in China is quite different from that of other countries, showing an uncoordinated development status.…”

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Green urbanization efficiency of 18 urban agglomerations in China: Evidence from spatial–temporal evolution

Wang²

2023

Front. Earth Sci.

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As a highly developed spatial form of integrated cities, urban agglomeration has become an important fulcrum for promoting economic development and regional growth. Green urban efficiency is the key to achieving green growth in a country. This study propose a slack-based model with undesirable output to evaluate the green urbanization of 18 urban agglomerations in China. Analysis was performed using the integrated barycenter coordinate method, standard deviation ellipses, and the geographic detector model to determine the spatial–temporal characteristics of green urbanization efficiency and the factors that influence urban agglomerations. We found that the green urbanization efficiency of urban agglomerations in China, when plotted, revealed a curve with the shape of “∧,” which increased at first and then decreased. The spatial differentiation characteristics were not obvious as the gap was narrowing. The center of green urbanization efficiency in China’s urban agglomerations has always been located in the Central Plains, with a small overall span and a relatively fixed position. The barycenter coordinates showed a trend of shifting from east to north, but the transfer speed and rhythm were relatively slow. The explanatory power of the various factors influencing the spatial differentiation of green urbanization efficiency of urban agglomerations differed markedly. The magnitude of importance was in the order of: urban population scale > investment growth > technology level > economic development > industrial structure.

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“…Innovation is the fundamental driving force for economic and social development, and green technology innovation is the key to achieving low-carbon economic development and improving natural resource efficiency [ 4 ], which can yield the dual benefits of technological progress and energy conservation, as well as emission reduction. However, China’s green technology innovation is still at a relatively low level [ 5 ], and how to improve the level of green technology innovation has become one of the key issues in China.…”

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The Impact of Human Capital on Green Technology Innovation—Moderating Role of Environmental Regulations

Zhang

2023

IJERPH

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Green technology innovation can bring about dual benefits, i.e., technological progress and energy conservation, as well as emission reduction, which are regarded as effective means to achieve economic development and environmental protection. The influencing factors of green technology innovation have been studied from multiple angles. In order to promote the level of green technology innovation in China from a new perspective, this paper selected human capital as the independent variable, and empirically investigated the direct impact of educational and healthy human capital on green technology innovation, based on the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces (excluding Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Tibet) from 2006 to 2016. Meanwhile, considering the current environmental policy system in China, this paper took environmental regulations as moderating variables, and analyzed the moderating role of three environmental regulations, namely, command-and-control environmental regulations, market-incentivized environmental regulations, and public voluntary environmental regulations, in the impact of human capital on green technology innovation. It was found that (1) educational human capital, with a three-period lag, and healthy human capital significantly promotes green technology innovation; (2) command-and-control environmental regulations, with a one-period lag, and market-incentivized environmental regulations promote green technology innovation, while public voluntary environmental regulations have an insignificant impact on green technology innovation; (3) the moderating effect of command-and-control and market-incentivized environmental regulations in the impact of human capital on green technology innovation is not significant. For public voluntary environmental regulations, the moderating effect between educational human capital and green technology innovation is significantly negative, while the moderating effect of healthy human capital on green technology innovation is not significant.

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How does regional integration development affect green innovation? Evidence from China's major urban agglomerations

Cited by 48 publications

References 47 publications

Sustainable Development Pathways for Energies in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

Sustainable Development Pathways for Energies in Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

Green urbanization efficiency of 18 urban agglomerations in China: Evidence from spatial–temporal evolution

The Impact of Human Capital on Green Technology Innovation—Moderating Role of Environmental Regulations

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