Land misallocation and urban air quality in China

Liu, Jianjiang; Jiang, Zhuqing; Chen, Weitao

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-14660-5

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“…Similar to western countries [ 44 , 45 ] and other third world countries [ 46 ], our article finds a positive impact of industrial land supply on environmental pollution. Some Chinese scholars studied the land misallocation on pollution [ 47 ], air quality [ 48 ], and its spatial spillover effects [ 49 ]. Zhao and Yan [ 50 ] studied the change of industrial land supply on environment in Chinese silk road cities.…”

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A Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimation on the Impact of Industrial Land Supply on Environmental Pollution in Urban China

Yan

Tuo

Lai

2022

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Despite the great economic growth and fast urbanization process in the past four decades, China is now suffering severely from environmental pollution. Local governments’ industrial land supply behaviors have a great impact on local investment, economic growth, and environmental pollution, which has not been effectively evaluated. To fill this gap, this paper quantitatively investigates the impact of industrial land supply by local governments on environmental pollution based on a two-way fixed effects model. A comprehensive and reliable data set for 277 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2009 to 2017 has been collected for analysis. The findings suggest that the increase of the ratio of industrial and mining storage land to total land supply significantly increases the concentration of PM2.5. The results remain significant and robust after a series of robustness tests. The negative impacts on environmental quality caused by differences in land supply behavior are greater in the central and western regions. We further explored intermediate mechanisms for the environmental impact of local governments’ allocations of industrial land. The findings suggest that greater industrial land transfer by local governments leads to an expansion in the scale of regional secondary industry and increases in local fiscal deficit. Unbalanced industrial development, insufficient corporate innovation, and insufficient investment in environmental protection will increase pollution. This study provides a reference for improving regulatory measures on land transactions and for formulating regional polices for environmental protection.

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A Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimation on the Impact of Industrial Land Supply on Environmental Pollution in Urban China

Yan

Tuo

Lai

2022

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“…This double second-hand land supply strategy fully utilizes the land's economic value and facilitates China's regional economy [1]. However, it has also significantly damaged the regional ecological environment (EEQ) through pathways such as strengthening extensive economic growth, inhibiting industrial structure upgrading and hindering technological innovation [2]. According to the Chinese Ecology and Environment Status Bulletin, 53.4% of 337 Chinese cities did not meet the annual air quality standard in 2019.…”

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“…Numerous studies have shown that China's long-term non-market-based land transfer has caused unreasonable industrial land planning, inefficient land use and backward industrial structure. Thus, this has a direct negative impact on regional air pollution [2][3][4].…”

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“…It is regarded as an important measure for the Chinese government to promote rural land marketization and for the Chinese central government to reduce land market distortions, improve land use efficiency and upgrade regional industrial structure [5][6][7]. Research in related fields shows that with the reduction in regional land market distortion, regional pollution-intensive industry entry [8] and air pollution [2] are significantly reduced. With the improvement of regional land use efficiency and industrial structure transformation and upgrading, regional energy conservation, emission reduction and air pollution control are effectively improved [2,9].…”

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Impact of China’s Rural Land Marketization on Ecological Environment Quality Based on Remote Sensing

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Bai

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The market entry of rural collective operating construction land (MERCOCL) is an important way for the Chinese government to promote the marketization of rural land. However, the impact of China’s Rural Land Marketization on the ecological environment quality (EEQ) remains to be understood. Understanding these mechanisms is necessary for regional sustainable development and rational resource allocation. Therefore, a universal assessment model of China’s regional EEQ was built based on the Landsat 5/8 and the national ecological index (EI) provided by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment at the national district and county scale. A total of 229 counties (32 pilot counties and other counties in the pilot cities) in China from 2011 to 2018 were taken as the research object. This paper empirically studied the evolution process, driving mechanism and spatial heterogeneity of EEQ from the perspective of MERCOCL. The study shows that China’s EEQ presented a spatial distribution pattern of “high in the south, low in the north, high in the east and low in the west”. When a county implemented the MERCOCL policy, its EEQ index increased by 0.342, with the improvement effect occurring in the second year after the MERCOCL implementation. Regarding the mechanism, MERCOCL mainly improved the EEQ by promoting industrial structure optimization and increasing urban population aggregation. From the perspective of spatial heterogeneity, the improvement effect of MERCOCL on EEQ was more significant in regions with lower economic development levels and latitudes (southern China). This study will facilitate an understanding of the impact of China’s rural land marketization on the EEQ and provide scientific data support for government departments to formulate sustainable urban development policies that meet local conditions.

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“…The marginal contributions of this paper are as follows: First, compared with previous studies on the in uencing factors of air pollution (He and Du, 2022), this paper answers the impact of land resource misallocation on air pollution from the perspective of production factors. Second, there are few previous studies on the mechanism and path of land resource misallocation and air pollution (Huang and Du, 2018;Liu et al, 2021a), this paper analyzed the impact mechanism of land resource misallocation on air pollution from three aspects: technological innovation, government technology input and foreign direct investment, enriching research on the mechanism and path of land resource misallocation on air pollution. Thirdly, different from the previous single regional heterogeneity analysis (Xu et al, 2022), this paper also analyzed the impact of land resource misallocation on air pollution under different city types and sizes, re ecting the heterogeneity of land policies and air governance in different cities.…”

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Has land resource misallocation increased air pollution in Chinese cities?

Xie

Gao

Zhang

2022

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As a fundamental production factor for economic development, rational land allocation is not only relevant to economic development but also an important factor affecting urban air pollution. In this paper, 284 cities in China were selected as samples to analyze the impact of land resource misallocation on air pollution and the underlying mechanisms. The findings are as follows: First, land resources misallocation increases urban air pollution. Second, land resources misallocation inhibits technological innovation, government technology investment and foreign direct investment, thereby increasing local air pollution. Third, the impact of land resources misallocation on air pollution is affected by heterogeneous conditions such as geographic region, city type, and city size. Finally, based on the air pollution caused by land resources misallocation, local governments should not only optimize the land supply structure but also improve the environment for technological innovation and investment.

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Land misallocation and urban air quality in China

Cited by 25 publications

References 31 publications

A Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimation on the Impact of Industrial Land Supply on Environmental Pollution in Urban China

A Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimation on the Impact of Industrial Land Supply on Environmental Pollution in Urban China

Impact of China’s Rural Land Marketization on Ecological Environment Quality Based on Remote Sensing

Has land resource misallocation increased air pollution in Chinese cities?

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