New indices system for quantifying the nexus between economic-social development, natural resources consumption, and environmental pollution in China during 1978–2018

Sun, Xiang; Zhu, Bo-Kuan; Zhang, Shuai; Zeng, Hanlai; Li, Kuai; Wang, Bin; Dong, Zhanfeng; Zhou, Changchang

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150180

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“…On this basis, air pollution control auditing compelled local governments to take two strategies to curb carbon emissions. First, the local governments strove to strengthen the supervision of industrial enterprises and the punishment of enterprises with non-compliance [ 42 ]. Relying on their authority, local governments took simple and direct measures to reduce carbon emissions by limiting output, forcing power outage, and controlling the shutdown of heavy-polluting industrial enterprises.…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This approach worked quickly, but the “one size fits all” approach would lead to the reduction of local industrial output and industrial added value, thus hindering the local economic development. Second, local governments reduced carbon emissions by increasing the investment [ 42 , 43 , 44 ]. Anderson and Newell [ 45 ] found that government subsidies may be more effective at improving energy efficiency than other policy tools based on the analysis of government-sponsored energy auditing.…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Effect of Air Pollution Control Auditing on Reducing Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China

Zhao

Zhu

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Analyzing the carbon-emission-reduction mechanism from the perspective of air pollution control auditing is of great practical significance for China to implement the dual-carbon strategy. Based on the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2004 to 2018, we examine whether and how the auditing of air pollution control has an impact on carbon emission reduction by using multiple regression method and the mediating analysis. Our analyses show that air pollution control auditing can significantly restrain carbon emissions but has no impact on carbon emission intensity. Further research suggests that (1) the bottom-up audit represented by local audit institutions is more effective than the top-down audit represented by the National Audit Office; (2) air pollution control auditing follows a simple and direct method to curb carbon emissions by output reduction, regulation, and shutdown, rather than promoting technological progress and green transformation of enterprises in a high-quality development mode. Those findings provide an improvement direction for air pollution control auditing to contribute to carbon emission reduction and supply relevant policy references for implementing the dual carbon strategy.

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Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Air Pollution Control Auditing on Reducing Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China

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“…In addition, Luo and Shen [ 18 ] indicated that the efficiency of cooperation between cities depends on the mechanisms, nature, and scope of their cooperation, the selected partners, and the roles of the actors in the partnership. There are also some scholars who have used the coupling coordination degree approach to study the degree of coupling coordination between the subsystems of economy, ecological environment, urbanization, and food [ 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]. However, the potential factors with impacts on regionally coordinated green development have not yet been discussed.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Improvement Path for Regionally Coordinated Green Development: Evidence from Social Network Analysis

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Wang

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Regionally coordinated green development has been widely documented in China. However, most previous studies have investigated it from the perspective of linearity, while the spatial correlation of green development is nonlinear. Based on 48 cities in Bohai Rim, this study used a social network analysis to measure the spatial network, with an emphasis on the internal structure of regional green development, and analyzed the driving factors of regionally coordinated green development from the perspective of nonlinearity. We found that large cities have formed a “siphon effect” and that the polarization of eco-efficiency has become increasingly serious. There are limited connections, some of which are redundant, in the spatial network of green development, while the stability of the network is strong. Additionally, reducing the differences in environmental regulation approaches among cities can have a positive impact on the spatial correlation and spillover effect of green development, thereby promoting regionally coordinated green development among cities in the Bohai Rim.

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“…In the formula, τ and γ 3 indicate the time delay effect coefficient and space-time double lag effect coefficient of explanatory variables. Other variables and coefficients are similar to those in Equations (12).…”

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“…Environmental pollution such as water pollution, air pollution, and land pollution is becoming more and more serious (8)(9)(10)(11). Environmental pollution reduces the quality of life (1) and restricts economic growth (12,13). In order to solve these problems, China has transformed into new urbanization.…”

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Impact Mechanism of New Urbanization on Environmental Pollution: Empirical Analysis Based on Spatial Panel Model

Zhang

Cai

2022

Front. Public Health

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Traditional urbanization has stimulated economic growth. Meanwhile, it has damaged the natural environment. China has initiated new urbanization to resolve this dilemma. This paper aims to clarify the relationship between new urbanization and environmental pollution and prove new urbanization's superiority in containing environmental pollution. Thus, this paper adopts the static and dynamic spatial Durbin and mediating effect models to estimate the environmental pollution control mechanism of the new urbanization, using the panel data collected from 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2018. Findings show that: (1) Environmental pollution has time inertia and spatial spillover effect. The degree of pollution in an area is related to the environmental quality in the earlier stage and the surrounding areas. (2) The role of new urbanization in containing environmental pollution can take effect in the long run. In the short term, population urbanization can restrain the environmental pollution of both local and surrounding cities. (3) Heterogeneity analysis shows that the higher the level of environmental pollution, the greater the impact of new urbanization on environmental pollution. (4) Mediating effect test shows that technological effect and industrial structure upgrading are two important channels for new urbanization to reduce environmental pollution. (5) Threshold effect test shows that the inhibition effect of new urbanization on environmental pollution is gradually enhanced after crossing the threshold.

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New indices system for quantifying the nexus between economic-social development, natural resources consumption, and environmental pollution in China during 1978–2018

Cited by 62 publications

References 58 publications

The Effect of Air Pollution Control Auditing on Reducing Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China

The Effect of Air Pollution Control Auditing on Reducing Carbon Emissions: Evidence from China

The Improvement Path for Regionally Coordinated Green Development: Evidence from Social Network Analysis

Impact Mechanism of New Urbanization on Environmental Pollution: Empirical Analysis Based on Spatial Panel Model

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