Resource extraction, environmental pollution and economic development: Evidence from prefecture-level cities in China

Yong, Sun; Ying-yi, LI; Yu, Tiantian; Zhang, Xinyu; Liu, Lingna; Zhang, Ping

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102330

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“…Model (1) in Table 4 is the estimation result of EDI on IU. The results show that EDI significantly promotes IA (β = 0.0042, p<0.01), indicating a strong correlation between EDI and IA.…”

Section: Discussion Of Endogeneitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Internet Access Contribute to Residents’ Pro-Environmental Behavior? Evidence from China

Yang¹,

Sun²,

Wang³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Residents' pro-environmental behavior (PEB) is vital for solving environmental pollution. This paper uses a micro sample of 10993 respondents from the Chinese General Social Survey. Propensity score matching was used to assess the effect of Internet access on residents' PEB, and the study finds a significant positive impact on private-sphere PEB and public-sphere PEB. This fundamental conclusion still holds after utilizing the instrumental variable method, changing the dependent variable, core explanatory variable, and the econometric model. Heterogeneous analysis finds that Internet access has a more significant positive impact on private-sphere PEB for elderly, women, low educated and rural residents. Internet access has a more significant positive impact on public-sphere PEB for the middle-aged, women, higher educated, and urban residents. The mediating test suggests that Internet access promotes residents' PEB and raises the overall level of residents' environmental awareness through the mediating factor of residents' PEB. This paper provides the theoretical and empirical basis that Internet technology can promote PEB at the microlevel, which emphasizes the positive impact of information and communications technology on eco-environmental improvement.

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“…Model (1) in Table 4 is the estimation result of EDI on IU. The results show that EDI significantly promotes IA (β = 0.0042, p<0.01), indicating a strong correlation between EDI and IA.…”

Section: Discussion Of Endogeneitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Internet Access Contribute to Residents’ Pro-Environmental Behavior? Evidence from China

Yang¹,

Sun²,

Wang³

et al. 2022

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…Economic development can increase the degree of environmental pollution to a certain extent (Sun et al, 2021). Hence, "green development" is an important way to deal with the relationship between the environment and the economy by integrating "green development" into the overall economic development strategy (Tang P. et al, 2021).…”

Section: Literature Review and Research Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Why the “journey” of carbon neutrality is a long one—a mixed method research based on carbon emission trading in hubei province

Jiang

Yao

Gao

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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This paper aims to explore the effectiveness of carbon emissions trading system by using mixed method research. In the past 5 years, the development level of carbon finance in Hubei Province is in the first tier. Hubei carbon emission trading center was established in September 2012, and now ranks top in the trading volume and total transaction amount of China’s seven pilot exchanges. Therefore, choosing Hubei Province as a sample to study the carbon emissions trading system has good externalities, that is, the research conclusions are highly representative. In order to make an in-depth analysis of the system construction and operation effect of the environmental equity trading market of carbon emission rights, this paper uses the closure of Hubei Province as an instrumental variable to alleviate the endogeneity in previous studies, and makes an empirical study on the effectiveness of the carbon emission trading system. The study finds that: after alleviating endogeneity, the current carbon emissions trading has reduced air quality. At the same time, this paper theoretically and statistically verifies the correlation and exogenous of the instrumental variable of city closure to ensure the credibility of the results. This paper further analyzes and finds that the lower the degree of industrialization and the worse the air quality, the higher the degree of air quality reduction. In addition, this paper conducted a series of robustness tests, such as adding new traffic related control variable, replacing variable indicators of air quality, conducting placebo test, and conducting lag regression, which verifies that the benchmark regression results are still valid. In the mechanism part, this paper uses the methods of interview and case analysis to analyze the causal mechanism of this phenomenon from the perspective of the system itself and the challenges in the implementation process. As far as the system itself is concerned, this paper believes that the current carbon emissions trading system does not cover a comprehensive range, there are defects in the way of carbon quota allocation, and the accuracy of the current verification method needs to be tested; In the process of implementation, there are “local protectionism” and information asymmetry.

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“…The global economy has grown in size as the global population continues to grow and social standards rise (Sun et al, 2021; Yuan et al, 2022). As a result, demand for materials and chemicals is rising in lockstep with rising societal needs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Controlled preparation of grafted starch modified with Ni nanoparticles for biodegradable polymer nanocomposites and its application in food packaging

Iqbal

Nadeem

Javed

et al. 2022

Microscopy Res & Technique

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Grafting of starch with methyl methacrylate was carried out using a free radical mechanism. Free radicals were generated by the thermal disintegration of potassium persulphate at the temperature of 60 C. A variety of experimental methods were investigated to check the effect of different parameters such as (temperature, amount of starch, quantity of monomer) for efficient grafting. The optimum temperature found for good grafting was 60 C. The initial amount of starch was taken as 0.75 g. Keeping the amount of starch constant, the quantity of monomer was reduced gradually from 10 to 2 ml in portions of 5 and 3 ml. The controlled biodegradability of the grafted product was obtained by using a 3 ml monomer in 0.75 g starch. This grafted polymer showed 31.45% biodegradability in 60 days. The nanocomposite of starch grafted methyl methacrylate was prepared by incorporating 0.02 g Ni nanoparticles in the reaction flask 15 min before the completion of reaction time. The starch grafted polymer and nanocomposite of this were fully characterized by SEM, FTIR, TGA, and DSC techniques. The soil burial method was applied to estimate the biodegradability of samples. The polymer containing Ni nanoparticles was less biodegradable than without nanoparticles. Such polymers can be efficiently used as packaging material for food items. Research Highlights1. Through a free radical method, methyl methacrylate was grafted onto the backbone of starch in this study.2. During the process, nickel nanoparticles were added to achieve the nickel nanocomposite of the starch grafted polymer.3. The breakdown of starch grafted polymer after 60 days in a soil burial experiment was 31.45%, whereas the degradation of nanocomposites was 20.07%. 4. Our synthesized nanocomposite polymers can be effectively employed as packaging material for food items.

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Resource extraction, environmental pollution and economic development: Evidence from prefecture-level cities in China

Cited by 75 publications

References 40 publications

Does Internet Access Contribute to Residents’ Pro-Environmental Behavior? Evidence from China

Does Internet Access Contribute to Residents’ Pro-Environmental Behavior? Evidence from China

Why the “journey” of carbon neutrality is a long one—a mixed method research based on carbon emission trading in hubei province

Controlled preparation of grafted starch modified with Ni nanoparticles for biodegradable polymer nanocomposites and its application in food packaging

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