Exploring the influence of severe haze pollution on residents' intention to purchase energy-saving appliances

Zhao, Chen; Zhang, Ming; Wang, Wenwen

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.134

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“…The government should thus implement a policy that encourages enterprises to obtain eco-label certification for their energy efficient air purifiers instead of implementing an incentive policy to encourage consumers to buy energy efficient air purifiers. Although we could not quantify the eco-labeling policy, the simulation results show that both the incentive and eco-labeling policies encourage people to buy energy efficient air purifier, which confirms the findings of previous studies [9,[26][27][28]31].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…For instance, consumer awareness of energy-labeling and pro-environmental attitudes affects personal norms through individual responsibility, which encourages the purchase of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly products [26][27][28]. Moreover, consumer preferences tend to improve when energy-consumption information is effectively communicated through well-designed energy labels [28][29][30]. Providing consumers with direct incentives to purchase energy-efficient products also positively affects the market share of such products [31].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Is an Incentive Policy for Energy Efficient Products Effective for Air Purifiers? The Case of South Korea

Kim

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Energies

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Recent increases in fine and ultrafine dust in South Korea have led to sharp increases in the sale of air purifiers, and that trend is expected to continue. As the sale of air purifiers increases, the energy that is consumed by air purifiers also increases. Therefore, improving the energy efficiency of air purifiers is an important part of improving the overall energy efficiency of society. We studied how different incentive policies affect consumer behavior because encouraging people to buy energy efficient air purifiers is important. We first investigated consumer preferences regarding air purifiers. Stated preference data were gathered from a choice experiment and a mixed logit model was used for the analysis. The results show that the most preferred attribute was price, followed by an eco-label. Based on that result, we conducted a scenario analysis to examine the economic and environmental effects of an incentive policy and eco-labeling. The monetary incentive policy increased the market share for air purifiers with a first-grade energy efficiency rating to 2.2%. The annual electricity use reduction was 5.9 GWh, with a CO2 emission reduction of 2520 tons and a policy monetary benefit of KRW 441,340,922 when we converted the effect of that market share change into economic and environmental terms. Eco-labeling also brought considerable change in the market share. These results provide a reference for implementing policies to encourage consumers to purchase energy efficient air purifiers.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Is an Incentive Policy for Energy Efficient Products Effective for Air Purifiers? The Case of South Korea

Kim

et al. 2019

Energies

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“…Zhang and Wang [26] proved that energy-saving technologies can help to degrade pollutant emissions and improve product efficiency in the iron and steel sector. Zhao, et al [3] argued that residents tend to purchase energy-saving appliances (instead of energy-consuming equipment) after haze pollution intensifies and that such changes can lead to a dramatic reduction of haze.…”

Section: Haze Pollution Reduction Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Haze pollution has been the subject of increasing concern among both academics and practitioners alike, due to its serious consequences in the long term. It has been shown to have direct influences on the health and life spans of residents, the innovation capabilities of firms, and the economic development of local cities [1][2][3][4][5]. According to a World Health Organization report in 2016, almost 3 million deaths every year are related to air pollution, of which 94% of these deaths are due to respiratory infections, lung disease, and lung cancer because of the inhalation of particulate matter (PM).…”

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Sustainability by High–Speed Rail: The Reduction Mechanisms of Transportation Infrastructure on Haze Pollution

Chen

Wang

2020

Sustainability

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Haze pollution impacts human health, as well as the competitive capabilities of firms and local economic development. Considerable attention has been given to the study of mechanisms for reducing haze pollution, but few studies have investigated the effect of city-to-city transportation infrastructures on environmental issues based on an institutional perspective. To address this research gap, this study advances our understanding by assessing the effect of city–to–city transportation on haze pollution caused by the operation of high-speed rail, which triggers the rapid flow of individuals and information, improves information transparency, as well as imposes institutional pressure on local governments and firms to reduce haze pollution. To further verify the underlying mechanisms, we tested the development of hard infrastructure (information communication technology) and soft infrastructure (market development level), which represent two conditions for which the mechanism is likely to be critical. We tested our hypotheses using a sample of 288 prefecture-level cities in China during the period from 2005 to 2016. The empirical results indicate that the operation of high-speed rail can reduce haze pollution by 17% on average.

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“…From the perspective of outcome variables, the key point is to explore the affecting mechanism of haze pollution from the following two aspects: individual behavior and social economy. For the former, in addition to the obvious factors which seriously affect the physical and mental health of individuals [39], the research of Zhao and Zhang, conducted with data of 31 provinces and municipalities of China in 2013-2015, pointed out that haze pollution has a significant positive impact on residents' purchases of energy-saving electrical appliances and even green consumption behaviors through psychological factors such as internal attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behaviors, personal norms, external government incentives, publicity, and education activities [40,41]. For the latter, haze pollution has a negative effect on low-carbon performance [42].…”

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Spatial–Temporal Heterogeneous Evolution of Haze Pollution in China as Deduced with the Use of Spatial Econometrics

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Haze Pollution, consisting essentially of PM2.5 and PM10, has been arousing wide public concern home and abroad. It has become a universal urgency for atmospheric researchers, governments, organizations, institutions, and the general public to conduct corresponding actions. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the institutional distribution and the regional evolution trend of path characteristics of haze pollution in China under the spatial–temporal heterogeneity on the basis of spatial econometrics, by incorporating the spatial element into the framework of the Multiple Influencing Factors mechanism. The results show that it has been abating under the governance year by year, though with a decreasing intensity; the major polluted regions have been moving from the East to the central and western area; there is significant spatial autocorrelation among the highly polluted area, but the effective local regulations of les- polluted regions do not impact the neighboring regions correspondingly; among the impacting factors, industrial structure, energy intensity, and traffic pollution have a significant Positive Impact on haze pollution, and the level of urbanization has a Negative Impact, while economic growth and innovation performance have no significant Positive Impact and are both weak in promotion. This research, theoretically and practically, offers reference for the Chinese government to integrate regional effective systems into multiregional diversified environmental governance, so as to realize its Green Ecology Transformation Development Strategy.

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Exploring the influence of severe haze pollution on residents' intention to purchase energy-saving appliances

Cited by 75 publications

References 40 publications

Is an Incentive Policy for Energy Efficient Products Effective for Air Purifiers? The Case of South Korea

Is an Incentive Policy for Energy Efficient Products Effective for Air Purifiers? The Case of South Korea

Sustainability by High–Speed Rail: The Reduction Mechanisms of Transportation Infrastructure on Haze Pollution

Spatial–Temporal Heterogeneous Evolution of Haze Pollution in China as Deduced with the Use of Spatial Econometrics

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