Investigating the impact of multi-dimensional urbanization and FDI on carbon emissions in the belt and road initiative region: Direct and spillover effects

Wei, Guoen; Bi, Mo; Liu, Xiao; Zhang, Zhenke; He, Bao‐Jie

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135608

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“…Moreover, we note that contrary to Table 1, urbanization in itself rather promotes CO 2 emission which is consistent with the results of Asongu et al (2020) or more recently those of Wei et al (2023) who find that urbanization by promoting excessive energy consumption and reduction of agricultural activities promotes CO 2 emission. However, we note that once it is associated with sanitation, access to electricity and basic water, it rather hinders the degradation of the environment through the emission of CO 2 .…”

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“…In the same vein, Zerbo et al (2020) find in analyzing sub‐Saharan Africa that rapid urbanization leads to informal urban settlements that represent daily health risks with considerable cumulative impacts on the well‐being and health of the vulnerable urban group. This is no less true for Wei et al (2023) who analyze the direct and indirect effects of multidimensional urbanization on carbon emission within the countries of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) over the period from 2000 to 2018. Using a battery of spatial econometric approaches, they find a positive, significant, and widespread effect of urbanization on carbon emissions, which promotes vulnerability to climate change in this region.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Yeyouomo,

Asongu

2023

Sustainable Development

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This study empirically examines the effect of sustainable urbanization on vulnerability to climate change over a sample of 52 African countries from 1996 to 2019. We use the two‐stage system generalized method of moments (GMM) empirical strategy and mediation analysis to assess direct and indirect impacts, respectively. The results of the direct analysis reveal that sustainable urbanization reduces vulnerability to climate change. The results of the indirect analysis also show that sustainable urbanization significantly reduces vulnerability to climate change through the channels of digitalization and institutional quality. The results also highlight that considering the direct effect of sustainable urbanization alone underestimates the impact of reducing vulnerability to climate change. The results are robust to an alternative indicator of vulnerability to climate and other estimation techniques. These results have important policy implications and provide evidence for the improvement of sustainable urbanization in terms of access to basic services or reduction of vulnerability to climate change.

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Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Yeyouomo,

Asongu

2023

Sustainable Development

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“…Ecosystem services (ESs) form the basis for human survival and development (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005;Lorilla et al 2019). Rapid urbanization has increased people's demand for ESs, which has profoundly affected the sustainable development of ESs, a more serious phenomenon in urban with rapid economic development (Peng et al 2020;Wei et al 2023). In this context, ecological management zoning provides an effective approach to managing ESs, which are the regional units divided into different ESs states (Xin et al 2021).…”

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Spatiotemporal assessment of ecosystem services supply–demand relationships to identify ecological management zoning in coastal city Dalian, China

Yan

Liu

Zeng-lin

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Integrating ecosystem services supply-demand relationships into ecological management zoning is a hot topic. Most studies have focused on the matching relationship between the supply and demand of ecosystem services. However, the extent to which both are coordinated at different matching levels is ignored, that is, whether ecosystem services supply and demand tend to reinforce each other at high levels or constrain each other at low levels. Therefore, taking Dalian as an example, this study constructed a research framework for ecological management zoning by integrating the matching and coupling coordination relationship of ecosystem services supply-demand. We found that the supply of ecosystem services in Dalian decreased by 23.70% and the demand increased by 22.54% from 2005 to 2019. There was an obvious mismatch and disharmony in the supply and demand of ecosystem services, and the matching and coordination often did not exist simultaneously. Overlay analysis was used to divide Dalian into four ecological management zones: eco-conservation, eco-development, eco-improvement, and eco-restoration zones. This study helped in integrating the matching and coupling coordination relationship of ecosystem services supply-demand into the environmental management system, which has practical significance for the sustainable development of ecosystem services.

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“…Urban spatial form may also affect carbon emissions through meteorological factors affecting the region, such as the urban heat island effect, which directly or indirectly affects energy consumption [16]. Wei et al quantified the direct and spillover effects of multidimensional urbanization and foreign direct investment on carbon emissions using multivariate remote sensing data, and the results showed that multidimensional urbanization and foreign direct investment had a significant positive impact on carbon emissions [17]. Zhou et al made a quantitative analysis of the impact of mode substitution and carbon emissions in the use stage of electric bicycle sharing system (EBSS) by using independent survey data and EBSS operating data [18].…”

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“…Land 2023, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 3 urbanization and foreign direct investment on carbon emissions using multivariat mote sensing data, and the results showed that multidimensional urbanization and eign direct investment had a significant positive impact on carbon emissions [17]. Zho al.…”

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The Association between Carbon Emission and Urban Spatial Form—A Study of Zhuhai, China

Zhang

Gong³

2023

Land

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Research on carbon emission is an important basis for solving global climate problems, and it is also one of the ways to quantitatively assess the impact of human activities. Cities are one of the main bearing spaces of human activities, and reasonable urban form is conducive to reducing energy consumption in human activities. This paper takes 50 clusters within Zhuhai, China, as the research object, quantifies the landscape spatial form index and social spatial form index of each cluster and establishes the index set of urban spatial form, so as to analyze the influence of different urban spatial form index on carbon emission. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) From the spatial distribution of each index, the urban cluster size and residential building area of each cluster in Zhuhai are generally large, and the distribution is basically consistent with that of densely populated areas. The urban clusters with high dominance are mainly located in the main urban area of Xiangzhou District, and the urban compactness, dispersion and industrial building area are generally high in the west and low in the east. (2) The size of urban clusters, industrial building area and residential building area have a strong promoting effect on carbon emission, while the compactness, dispersion and dominance of urban clusters have a strong inhibiting effect on carbon emission. (3) Based on the above conclusions, the low-carbon urban spatial form optimization strategy should be proposed from three aspects: urban development boundary control, promoting industrial structure transformation and compact urban development.

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Investigating the impact of multi-dimensional urbanization and FDI on carbon emissions in the belt and road initiative region: Direct and spillover effects

Cited by 78 publications

References 61 publications

Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Sustainable urbanization and vulnerability to climate change in Africa: Accounting for digitalization and institutional quality

Spatiotemporal assessment of ecosystem services supply–demand relationships to identify ecological management zoning in coastal city Dalian, China

The Association between Carbon Emission and Urban Spatial Form—A Study of Zhuhai, China

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