What Are the Key Factors Affecting Air Pollution? Research on Jiangsu, China from the Perspective of Spatial Differentiation

Wang, Shijin; Ge, Hua; Zhou, Huiying

doi:10.3390/su12062371

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“…Environmental quality is an investment that all and sundry should be involved in because it is a strong driver of economic growth and prosperity. Thus 27 , revealed that citizens’ willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental quality improvement is a right step in the right direction if EG will be realized and sustained. Wang et al 27 stated that environmental protection is a necessity to ensure sound public health and sustainable economic growth.…”

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Potency of some economic variables affecting environmental quality in Nigeria

Ogunbode

Jazat

Akande

2023

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Environmental quality (EQ) is germane to achieving sustainable living on earth. To evaluate a related stimulus of EQ on area basis, a comparative analyses of economic factors that influence pollution in Iwo and Ibadan metropolis was carried out. Data for the study was generated through the administration of 700 structured questionnaires in total at both locations, out of which 165 and 473 were retrieved from Iwo and Ibadan respectively. The distribution of respondents in form of male gender, married status, tertiary education and household size of not more than 5 were 51.5%, 78.2%, 24.9% and 46.1% respectively for Iwo, while it was 38.5%, 81.0%, 28.6% and 48.8% in the same order for Ibadan. Economic factors analyzed were (1) Income (2) living standard indexed by the form of accommodation occupied (3) waste/noise management regimen (4) energy utilization (5) orthodox versus green economy adoption and (6) waste sorting capacity. Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin sampling adequacy and Bartlett’s test of sphericity admitted the data as factorable at p < 0.005. Results showed that three of the economic variables significantly explained the pollution status in Iwo and Ibadan. The variables in Iwo explained 59.3% of the factors and these are waste/noise management strategies (22.5%), living standard (18.7%) and green economy adoption (18.3%). 60.2% of economic impacts on pollution in Ibadan were explained by living standard (24.4%), green economy adoption (18.8%) and waste/noise management strategies (17.0%). Only two of the variables namely living standard, and green economy adoption were common to the two study locations, although, their importance and ordering varied. While waste and noise management were most significant in Iwo, the same variable had the least effect in Ibadan. Green economy adoption was least in Iwo but most significant in Ibadan. Thus, the economic factors influencing pollution in Iwo and Ibadan metropolis, though similar, may not be given a generalized weighting. In other words, analyses of pollution-related matters from the economic viewpoint should be location specific.

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Section: Literature Review and The Theoretical Basismentioning

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Potency of some economic variables affecting environmental quality in Nigeria

Ogunbode

Jazat

Akande

2023

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“…Nitrogen oxides (NO x ) in vehicle exhausts consist of NO and NO 2 . The NO 2 mass fraction of total NO x (primary NO 2 ) is of particular importance for several reasons: Its higher toxicity, causing irritation of airways in the human respiratory system and aggravation of respiratory diseases [11,12], its higher atmospheric lifetime compared to NO and because regulatory limits are established for hourly maximum NO 2 (Directive 2008/50/CE, received in Italy by the D.Lgs. 155-13 August 2010).…”

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Estimate of Secondary NO2 Levels at Two Urban Traffic Sites Using Observations and Modelling

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Assessing secondary and primary NO2 in urban areas is important to support carefully designed environmental policies, particularly in areas with recurrent exceedance of NO2 regulatory limits. The share of secondary NO2 was preliminary estimated in intense traffic areas of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Northern Italy) by the combined analysis of regulatory air quality observations at urban traffic and urban background conditions. In addition simulations performed by the Lagrangian particle dispersion models Micro SWIFT SPRAY and the chemical transport model WRF-Chem were performed. The former was applied on the urban area representative of traffic conditions for both cities, in winter. The latter was applied twice in Modena, both with and without urban traffic emissions. Results suggest a large amount of secondary NO2 mainly at the Modena traffic site, and a better representativity of background conditions of the corresponding urban station in Reggio Emilia. NOx levels simulated by WRF-Chem show good results at Modena urban background and performance in line with reference benchmark values in reproducing observed NO2 and NOx concentrations at rural background sites, although a non-negligible bias in simulated urban NO2 remained. Overall the simulation models suggest that contribution to atmospheric NOx by domestic heating or industrial combustion emissions are not as relevant compared to traffic, consistently with the local emission inventory.

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“…According to Grossman and Krueger's research [4] , some air pollution emissions will increase with the increase of GDP when the income is low, and decrease with the increase of GDP per capita when the income is high. On the basis of Grossman and Krueger, Li, Song et al [3] and Wang, Hua [5] continued their research and found out more factors related to air pollution, such as population, modernization level, science and technology, etc.…”

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Relationship Among Per Capita Income, Energy Consumption and Air Pollution in China in the Past 30 Years

Huang¹

2020

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In the past 30 years, China has developed rapidly, and its per capita income and energy consumption have undergone earth-shaking changes. Under this background, this paper will study the correlation of per capita income, energy consumption and air pollution in each province, and explore the relationship among them. In fact, in China during the past 30 years, the relationship among these three factors is different from that shown by the environmental Kuznets curve.

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What Are the Key Factors Affecting Air Pollution? Research on Jiangsu, China from the Perspective of Spatial Differentiation

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Potency of some economic variables affecting environmental quality in Nigeria

Potency of some economic variables affecting environmental quality in Nigeria

Estimate of Secondary NO2 Levels at Two Urban Traffic Sites Using Observations and Modelling

Relationship Among Per Capita Income, Energy Consumption and Air Pollution in China in the Past 30 Years

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