Does the "10-Point Water Plan" reduce the intensity of industrial water pollution? Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Zhou, Zhifang; Liu, Jinhao; Zhou, Nan; Zhang, Tao; Zeng, Huixiang

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113048

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“…Secondly, environmental regulations negatively affect the location choices of pollution-intensive firms, which provided micro evidence to prove the pollution haven hypothesis (Wang et al, 2019;Shahzad, 2020;Shahzad et al, 2021). In contrast to previous studies that focused on the effects of single type of environmental regulation (Pan et al, 2021;Sharma et al, 2021;Zhou et al, 2021), this study found that the impact of market-based environmental regulations is better than that of command-and-control environmental regulation (Bashir et al, 2021). In addition, the market-based environmental regulations have a stronger impact on economically eastern developed regions, while command-and-control environmental regulations have a stronger impact on the economically backward western regions.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…In the process, polluting industries have been transferred from developed countries to developing countries with lenient environmental regulations (Ghosh and Wang, 1993). However, environmental pollution and ecological damage are worsening in many countries (Bashir et al, 2021;Zhou et al, 2021), hindering the global sustainable development. Therefore, environmental regulations are implemented by many developed countries and emerging economies government to reduce the excessive concentration of pollution-intensive firms and emissions of pollution.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Location Choices of Pollution-Intensive Firms in China

Tang

Dou

2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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The spatial transfer pattern and dynamic mechanisms of pollution-intensive industries are key issues for national and regional sustainable development. Although previous studies have emphasized the impact of environmental regulations on the transfer of pollution industries, there is a lack of firm-level analysis of the combined effects of different types of environmental regulations and other factors on them, which has led to the pollution haven hypothesis remaining contested. In order to provide micro evidence to test the pollution haven hypothesis, this paper reveals the temporal and spatial evolution of pollution-intensive foreign firms’ distribution in China, and explores the impact of heterogeneous environmental regulations on the location choices by using spatial analysis and zero-inflated negative binomial regression. The empirical results were as follows: Firstly, pollution-intensive foreign firms were highly concentrated in the eastern developed region and have a strong path dependency in China. Secondly, environmental regulations, especially the market-based environmental regulation, had a significant negative impact on the location choices of pollution-intensive foreign firms. Thirdly, the spatial distribution of pollution-intensive foreign firms was strongly influenced by new economic and geographic factors. Fourthly, pollution-intensive foreign firms have a significant pollution border effects in developed regions but not in economically less-developed regions due to transportation costs. The governments are expected to adopt heterogeneous environmental regulations based on the level of regional economic development to avoid the pollution haven phenomenon, thus achieving a sustainable development.

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The Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Location Choices of Pollution-Intensive Firms in China

Tang

Dou

2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…The variables of the study can be divided into two main categories, environmental and economic data, as shown in Table 3 . The adoption of control variables follows Zhou et al [ 41 ] and Wang [ 42 ]. In addition, we choose COD and NH 3 N as the measures of pollution because they are listed as key pollutants that are at the core of wastewater pollution management in the 11th-13th Five-Year Plans (2006–2020) and because Fujii and Managi [ 43 ] argued that COD and NH 3 N are the best indicators for assessing the degree of water pollution due to their better measurement methods.…”

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Water pollution and administrative division adjustments: A quasi-natural experiment in Chaohu Lake, China

Liu

Cai

2022

PLoS ONE

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Administrative division adjustments, such as agglomerations, upgrading, and revocation, introduce a series of uncertain impacts on the social and economic development in administrative regions. Previous studies have focused more on the economic effects of administrative division adjustments, but in this paper, we also consider the environmental effects of such adjustments. In 2011, with the approval of the State Council, the prefecture-level Chaohu city was officially revoked, resulting in a county-level Chaohu city. One district and four counties under the jurisdiction of the original Chaohu city were placed under the jurisdiction of Hefei, Wuhu, and Ma’anshan. This adjustment made Chaohu Lake an inner lake of Hefei city. The administrative division adjustment of Chaohu Lake, China, is used as a quasi-natural experiment to explore the influence of such an adjustment on pollution control. The synthetic control method (SCM) is used in this study to evaluate the effect of the administrative division adjustment on the water quality indicators of Chaohu Lake. The following conclusions are drawn. First, after the administrative division adjustment, some water quality indicators, such as ammonia nitrogen, improved; however, other major pollution indicators, such as chemical oxygen demand (COD) and dissolved oxygen (DO), worsened to varying degrees. Second, the results reveal that improper development ideas, excessive industrial expansion, and the shift in economic growth and environmental goals were problems after the adjustment. Returning to the original intention of the administrative division adjustment, rationalizing the Chaohu Lake management system and designing a sound and feasible accountability mechanism are fundamental measures for reducing pollution.

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“…Pollution is defined as the presence of undesirable substances harming living things and the environment [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. Industrialization and monstrous increment in the populace, prompting developing urbanization causing the expansion in contamination at a disturbing rate [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ]. The unadulterated and clean water is getting scarce because of industrialization, and the world is confronting a deficiency of clean water [ 6 , 7 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ].…”

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Nanomaterials for the Treatment of Heavy Metal Contaminated Water

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Nanotechnology finds its application almost in every field of science and technology. At the same time, it also helps to find the solution to various environment-related problems, especially water contamination. Nanomaterials have many advantages over conventional materials, such as high surface area, both polar and non-polar chemistries, controlled and size-tunable, easier biodegradation, which made them ideal candidates for water and environmental remediation as well. Herein, applications of non-carbon nanomaterials, such as layered double hydroxides, iron oxide magnetite nanoparticles, nano-polymer composites, metal oxide nanomaterials and nanomembranes/fibers in heavy metal contaminated water and environmental remediation are reviewed. These non-carbon nanomaterials, due to their tunable unique chemistry and small size have greater potentials for water and environmental remediation applications.

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Does the "10-Point Water Plan" reduce the intensity of industrial water pollution? Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Cited by 99 publications

References 93 publications

The Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Location Choices of Pollution-Intensive Firms in China

The Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Location Choices of Pollution-Intensive Firms in China

Water pollution and administrative division adjustments: A quasi-natural experiment in Chaohu Lake, China

Nanomaterials for the Treatment of Heavy Metal Contaminated Water

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