Drag Effect of Economic Growth and Its Spatial Differences under the Constraints of Resources and Environment: Empirical Findings from China’s Yellow River Basin

Zhou, Yujiao; Li, Ding; Liu, Weifeng; Mei, Dong; Zhong, Jianyi

doi:10.3390/ijerph19053027

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“…As the transformation of the energy structure in the Yellow River Basin is the focus of the "double carbon" target, the existing studies related to this region mainly focus on analysis of the factors influencing carbon emissions under the "double carbon" target [25,26], analysis of the factors influencing green development [27][28][29], and analysis of the coupling between economic growth and carbon neutrality [30,31]. The studies directly related to energy, analyze the impact of the carbon footprint for energy consumption [32] and the coupling and coordination of the system as a whole on regional sustainable development [33][34][35][36], etc.…”

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Research on the Yellow River Basin Energy Structure Transformation Path under the “Double Carbon” Goal

Liang

Shi

2023

Sustainability

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The clean utilization of traditional energy and renewable, clean energy utilization are the key points of the energy structure transition in the Yellow River Basin. This paper constructs an evolutionary game model, with the participation of local governments and energy companies, to analyze the dynamic evolution of each game subject. The results from the study highlight three important facts about the energy mix transformation in the Yellow River Basin: (1) the high ratio of traditional clean energy utilization and the low ratio of renewable, clean energy utilization align with the actual energy use in the Yellow River Basin, which can better promote the inclusive development of both types of energy; (2) increasing the capacity to utilize both energy sources can improve the energy system resilience gains of game players, for example, at the immature stage of renewable, clean energy utilization technologies, local government’s willingness to subsidize renewable clean energy utilization is positively related to their energy system resilience gains; and (3) under the premise of ensuring the energy supply, the introduction of penalty parameters can ensure a reasonable share of both types of energy utilization, and an increase in the penalty parameters makes the game participants increase their willingness to implement energy structure transformation policies.

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Section: Literature Review 21 Energy Transition Studiesmentioning

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Research on the Yellow River Basin Energy Structure Transformation Path under the “Double Carbon” Goal

Liang

Shi

2023

Sustainability

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“…And as a consequence, GDP growth is hampered under the energy constraints. "Growth drag effects model" is another popular tool to describe the impacts of energy and resources constraints on economic growth (Zhao et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2022;Zhou et al, 2022). It has first been introduced to explore the impacts of limited ecological factors input on economic issues by Nordhaus (1992).…”

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“…An et al (2018) quantitatively analyzed the constraint effect of water consumption on the urbanization of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and stated that the urbanization process of the Yangtze River Economic Belt has slowed down by 0.574%, due to the constraints of water resources consumption. Zhou et al (2022) reported that the total drag effect of natural resources on economic growth in the Yellow River Basin is about −0.8347 through the classic panel model estimation. Pan et al (2021) found that the drag growth effect of water resources in Chongqing was about 0.3%-0.5%, slightly less than the result of Chengdu, which reflected the relatively lower dependence of industrial development in Chongqing on water resources.…”

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The drag effects of energy-water constraints on China’s economic growth under carbon mitigation goals

Chen

Jiang

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Front. Earth Sci.

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Energy and water resources function as the base for humans’ socioeconomic development, which are closely linked with each other in the production process. With the rapid economic development, the contradiction between the supply and demand of energy and water resources has become acute. Meanwhile, the carbon reduction goals further enhanced the energy and water constraints, which inevitably have a significant impact on economic growth. Exploring the effect of energy and water constraints on the economic growth under climate goals is essential for policy maker to minimize the economic loss during carbon control. To realize this aim, we introduced the modified Romers’ economic growth model to estimate the impact of energy-water constraints on economic growth based on relative data in 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2019. Then the spatial-temporal characteristics of the energy-water drag effects on China’s economic growth have been analyzed. We further applied scenario analysis method to investigate the changes in growth drag effects of energy and water resources under carbon mitigation goals in 2025 and 2030. The results show that China’s economic growth rate was reduced by 7.72% and 7.99% during the study period due to energy and water resources constraints respectively. In terms of the temporal trend, the energy-water growth drag effect shows a downward trend as a whole during 2000–2019, and the growth drag of energy on economic growth is slightly greater than that of water resources. As to spatial distribution, regions with high constraint effects of energy and water on economic growth are mainly located in the East China, while some north regions feature low energy-water constraints. According to the simulation results, China’s energy-water drag effects on the economic growth are 6.85% and 7.03% respectively, under the baseline and strong carbon control scenarios, higher than the 6.53% under the weak carbon control. Based on this, this paper proposes to design targeted energy-water constraint strategies and promote production efficiency to achieve a win-win situation of economic development and dual-carbon goals.

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“…Is air pollution detrimental to regional innovation? An empirical heterogeneity test based on Chinese cities Introduction With economic globalization and extensive economic growth in recent years, the global ecological environment is deteriorating day by day, which poses a challenge to the sustainable development of the world's economy and environment (1). Due to the extensive economic growth, the consumption of resources and energy has increased (2), the level of biodiversity has decreased, and the contradiction between human habitat activity and ecological environment has become increasingly prominent (3).…”

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Is air pollution detrimental to regional innovation? An empirical heterogeneity test based on Chinese cities

Liao

Gao

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Nowadays, innovation seems to be the inevitable choice to achieve stable economic growth. However, the negative impact of air pollution on health and economy makes air pollution an important factor in regional innovation, which deserves our discussion. The overall regional innovation level from 2014 to 2019 has an upward trend, while the overall air pollution has a downward trend during the period, which provides foundation for our research. Based on the data of 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2014 to 2019, this paper uses the fixed effect and mediation model to verify the impact and mechanism of air pollution on regional innovation. The results show that the increase in air pollution, measured by the air quality index, significantly inhibits regional innovation. Air pollution has significant funds crowding-out effect and human capital loss effect, thereby decreasing the regional innovation level, which means innovation funds and researchers play a conductive role between air pollution and regional innovation. In heterogeneity analysis, it is found that the detrimental effect of air pollution on regional innovation is significant in eastern and central China, in large- and medium-sized cities, and in cities with poor or general air quality. It indicates that developed and large-scale regions should pay more attention to air pollution control. For polluted regions, more emphasis and endeavors are needed to address air pollution problems. Besides, the inhibitory effect is more severe on incremental innovation rather than on radical innovation, which deserves the attention of enterprises engaged in incremental innovation. Therefore, we propose that targeted environmental policies and effective measures should be developed to improve air quality in the long run. Moreover, policymakers could provide strong support for innovation grants, talent subsidies, and rewards and encourage clean technological innovation through short-term trade-offs between heavily polluting and low polluting enterprises.

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Drag Effect of Economic Growth and Its Spatial Differences under the Constraints of Resources and Environment: Empirical Findings from China’s Yellow River Basin

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Research on the Yellow River Basin Energy Structure Transformation Path under the “Double Carbon” Goal

Research on the Yellow River Basin Energy Structure Transformation Path under the “Double Carbon” Goal

The drag effects of energy-water constraints on China’s economic growth under carbon mitigation goals

Is air pollution detrimental to regional innovation? An empirical heterogeneity test based on Chinese cities

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