The non-linear effect of environmental regulation on haze pollution: Empirical evidence for 277 Chinese cities during 2002–2010

Zhou, Qian; Zhang, Xiaoling; Shao, Qinglong; Wang, Xiaoling

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109274

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“…The results show that environmental regulations do affect CO 2 emissions by influencing pollution emissions. This is consistent with the finding of Zhou et al (2019) that environmental regulations nonlinearly affect haze pollution (PM2.5), and the scatter trend graph of pollution emissions is an inverted-U shape [18]. As the government has formulated a sound environmental policy implemented in all levels of enterprises, the IS industry is gradually transformed from a high energy consumption and high pollution production mode to a clean and low carbon production mode.…”

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“…Third, the multi-indicator method. These are many methods, such as pollutant emission density [14], total industrial output value divided by SO 2 emissions [15], expenditure of industrial waste gas treatment facilities divided by SO 2 emissions [16], the proportion of investment in pollution projects in the total industrial output value [17], the proportion of industrial pollution control and control expenditures in sales [16] and comprehensive index of environmental regulations constructed from industrial SO 2 emissions, industrial smoke and dust emissions, and industrial wastewater discharge removal rates [18]. Fourth, the classification research method.…”

Section: Definition Of Environmental Regulationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Existing literature indicates that environmental regulations can nonlinearly affect haze pollution emissions [14,18,32]. Cole et al (2005) and Zhou et al (2019) found that both formal and informal regulations can finally successfully reduce the intensity of pollution [14,18]. Greenstone and Hanna (2014) explored the Indian region and found that air pollution regulations significantly improved air quality and effectively reduced air pollution [33].…”

Section: Environmental Regulations Haze Pollution and Carbon Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Based on a panel data of China’s iron and steel (IS) industry from 2000 to 2014, this paper explores the impact of environmental regulations on CO2 emissions in the industry. The results show that there is a clear inverted-U relationship between environmental regulations and CO2 emissions in the IS industry. Additionally, there are regional heterogeneity and regulatory intensity on the impact of environmental regulations on CO2 emissions. The results in the eastern region are consistent with the whole sample results, while the upward trend in the central region and the downward trend in the western region together lay the basis for the inverted-U shape of the whole sample. High environmental regulations affect CO2 emissions in an inverted-U shape, while low environmental regulations present a U shape. The mechanisms of environmental regulations affecting CO2 emissions are synergy effect and technological innovation effect. Finally, this paper proposes some policy recommendations according to the above findings.

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“…In addition to the positive or negative correlation between the economic growth and ecological environment, there is a large amount of evidences of nonlinear relationships, which is consistent with the EKC hypothesis (Charfeddine, 2017;Zhou, Zhang, Shao, & Wang, 2019).…”

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Spatiotemporal Relationship Between Ecological Environment and Economic Development in Tropical and Subtropical Regions of Asia

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This article is devoted to study the coordination coupling relationship between economic development and ecological environment in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia to reflect the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the coordination in different regions. Using the entropy method and Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression model, we empirically analyze 14 tropical and subtropical countries in Asia from 2003 to 2016. The empirical results show that most of the tropical and subtropical sample countries in Asia are at an intermediate coordination coupling level between economic development and ecological environment; the economic development lag type is the main one, and the ecological development lag type is less. At the same time, the positive effects between economic development and ecological environment in most sample countries are more obvious. Spatially, the ecological environment in the north of the Asian tropical and subtropical countries has a positive effect on economic development rather than that in the south and tends to be positive. The positive effect of economic development on ecological environment in the faster economic development areas is better than that in the slower economic development areas, and more areas tend to play negative effects. The research in this article provides a basis for strengthening ecological environment protection in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, promoting the coordinated development of economic and ecological environment. Further, we put forward some corresponding policy recommendations.

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“…In addition to meteorological factors [ 9 , 10 ], China’s economic development mode [ 11 , 12 ], industrial structure [ 13 , 14 ], and energy-use efficiency [ 15 , 16 ] lead to the frequent occurrence of hazy weather. Jin et al [ 17 ] pointed out that fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) in various provinces in China increased to different degrees from 2005 to 2014.…”

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Does environmental regulation reduce China’s haze pollution? An empirical analysis based on panel quantile regression

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Haze pollution in China is very serious and has become the source of mortality, affecting the health and lives of residents. The Chinese government adopts different policy measures to reduce haze pollution. The impact of different types of environmental regulations on haze pollution has become a hot topic for academics and government departments. Based on panel data from 2005–2017, this paper studies the effect of different types of environmental regulations on haze pollution in 30 provinces of China using a panel quantile model. The results show that when haze pollution changes from a low quantile to a high quantile, the marginal impact of command-and-control environmental regulation on haze pollution changes from 0.122 to -0.332. Command-and-control environmental regulation can reduce haze pollution, but its impact is not significant. The main reason for this finding is that environmental law enforcement is not strict. The marginal impact of economically restrained environmental regulation on haze pollution changes from -14.389 to 49.939. Economically restrained environmental regulation can reduce haze pollution in low quantiles, but not in high quantiles. The collection of sewage charges fees is far less than the total profit, which has no deterrent effect on enterprises. The marginal impact of public participation in environmental regulation on haze pollution changes from 0.154 to -0.002. Public participation in environmental regulation cannot reduce haze pollution in low quantiles, but can in high quantiles; however its impact becomes insignificant. This study reveals the quantile-based discrepancy in the effect of environmental regulation on haze pollution, and offers a new perspective for research on the effects of environmental regulation.

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The non-linear effect of environmental regulation on haze pollution: Empirical evidence for 277 Chinese cities during 2002–2010

Cited by 153 publications

References 49 publications

An Inverted-U Impact of Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emissions in China’s Iron and Steel Industry: Mechanisms of Synergy and Innovation Effects

An Inverted-U Impact of Environmental Regulations on Carbon Emissions in China’s Iron and Steel Industry: Mechanisms of Synergy and Innovation Effects

Spatiotemporal Relationship Between Ecological Environment and Economic Development in Tropical and Subtropical Regions of Asia

Does environmental regulation reduce China’s haze pollution? An empirical analysis based on panel quantile regression

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