Can cross-regional environmental protection promote urban green development: Zero-sum game or win-win choice?

Zhuo, Chengfeng; Xie, Yuping; Mao, Yanhua; Li, Yiqiao; Chen, Pengqin

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105803

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“…Economic development needs to be integrated with environmental planning to achieve sustainable development (Rehman et al, 2021c). Effective environmental protection mechanism can promote technological innovation and industrial structure upgrading (Fan et al, 2022;Zhuo et al, 2022). In the green economy, the source of enterprises' green competitiveness is green innovation ability.…”

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Research on the cultivation of green competitiveness among chinese heavily polluting enterprises under country/district environmental regulations

Tong-jian

Zho²,

Hussain³

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The development of the world economy has caused serious environmental pollution, which has resulted in an ecological crisis. With the acceleration of economic development, China’s ecological crisis is becoming more serious. Green technology innovation is an important driving force in realizing green economic development, and heavily polluting enterprises are the key link to cultivating green technology innovation. The Porter hypothesis holds that environmental regulation has a promoting effect on enterprises’ green technology innovation, but this is not reflected in the context of China. As a basic administrative unit, the implementation of environmental regulations in counties and districts determines the effectiveness of environmental policies. Utilizing structural equation modeling, this study analyzes the cultivation of the green technology innovation ability of heavily polluting enterprises under environmental regulations. The results show that command-based environmental regulation can effectively promote enterprises’ green technology innovation ability. Incentive-based environmental regulation needs to be strengthened to drive the development of enterprises’ “three wastes” treatment innovation ability. Voluntary environmental regulation does not effectively promote green process innovation and “three wastes” treatment innovation. In addition, enterprises’ current “three wastes” treatment innovation capacity is not enough to promote the improvement of enterprises’ green competitiveness. The results of this article show that environmental regulation is conducive to the green innovation ability of enterprises, and this promotion effect needs to be further strengthened. Moreover, the highlighted research limitations will contribute to the subsequent research work.

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Section: Analysis Of Heavily Polluting Enterprises' Green Innovation ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on the cultivation of green competitiveness among chinese heavily polluting enterprises under country/district environmental regulations

Tong-jian

Zho²,

Hussain³

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Second is the support effect. Regional integration can use financing mechanisms to convert various factors of production into capital, promote the accumulation of regional capital, and support the joint creation, investment operations, and the technology research and development of various industries [27,28]. Under the background whereby micro-entities obtain more capital factor investment, the supporting effect produced by the increase of capital investment scale in this process can stimulate the flow of factors to production fields with high-quality investment returns through a variety of transmission paths.…”

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How Regional Integration Affects Urban Green Development Efficiency: Evidence from Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River

Wang

Zhang

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Unlocking the relationship between regional integration and urban green development efficiency (UGDE) is of great importance for boosting regional high-quality development and promoting sustainable urban development patterns. Although studies have analyzed the spatio-temporal evolution and influencing factors of regional integration and UGDE, the impact of regional integration on UGDE remains untested. In this paper, we construct a conceptual framework to analyze how regional integration can influence UGDE through promoting the factors mobility and optimizing the industrial layout. In addition, we further choose the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River (UAMRYR), a rapidly growing urban agglomeration in central China, as a case to investigate the spatial spillover effect of regional integration on UGDE from 2003 to 2017. We quantify the UGDE with a random forest model, then estimate the underlying determinants of the UGDE with a spatial Durbin model. Results indicated that (1) the regional integration level and the UGDE index of the UAMRYR and its three sub-urban agglomerations show an increasing trend; (2) for every 1% increase in the level of regional integration, the level of UGDE will increase by 0.8307%; (3) the impact of regional integration on UGDE has obvious regional heterogeneity; while playing a promoting effect in the Wuhan urban agglomeration and the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration, it shows an inhibitory effect in the Poyang Lake urban agglomeration. We conclude that regional integration in agglomeration areas can accelerate the factors flow and optimize the industrial layout for improving UGDE.

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“…To avoid the estimation bias caused by a single index measure, this study integrates the financial decentralisation practices, which focuses on the calculation method of Kassouri (2022), and measures the fiscal revenue decentralisation (FIRD) and fiscal expenditure decentralisation (FIED) separately. Following Wang et al (2020), Qiu et al (2021), andZhuo et al (2022), control variables include economic development level (EDEL), industrial structure (INDS), foreign direct investment (FDI), population density (POD). The independent variable includes fiscal decentralisation (FID), as this study intends to investigate the impact of different financial decentralisation scenarios on green production efficiency.…”

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Fiscal decentralisation and green total factor productivity in China: SBM-GML and IV model approaches

Zhan

Li²,

Liu³

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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This paper uses the SBM-GML model to measure and evaluate green total factor productivity based on the panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2012 to 2018. It examines the impact of different dimensions of financial decentralisation on green total factor productivity. The research results show that: 1) green total factor productivity in China is improved year by year and better in central and western regions; 2) the decentralisation of fiscal revenue and expenditure significantly weakens the increase of green total factor productivity in provincial level; 3) fiscal decentralisation inhibits green total factor productivity in central and western regions with regional heterogeneity; 4) local government competition affects the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and green total factor productivity, weakens the negative effect of fiscal decentralisation on green total factor productivity. Finally, the study aims to promote green total factor productivity and sustainable development from the perspective of financial decentralisation. This paper expands the literature and evidence of financial decentralisation on green total factor productivity and offers suggestions for governments and policymakers working toward sustainable development.

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Can cross-regional environmental protection promote urban green development: Zero-sum game or win-win choice?

Cited by 66 publications

References 79 publications

Research on the cultivation of green competitiveness among chinese heavily polluting enterprises under country/district environmental regulations

Research on the cultivation of green competitiveness among chinese heavily polluting enterprises under country/district environmental regulations

How Regional Integration Affects Urban Green Development Efficiency: Evidence from Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River

Fiscal decentralisation and green total factor productivity in China: SBM-GML and IV model approaches

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