Modeling regional sustainable development scenarios using the Urbanization and Eco-environment Coupler: Case study of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, China

The Moderating Effect of Innovation on the Relationship between Urbanization and CO2 Emissions: Evidence from Three Major Urban Agglomerations in China

“…The present study demonstrates that for innovation, which were found to exert a positive effect on reducing CO 2 emissions in previous studies such as those by Zhang et al [17] and Su et al [36], only significantly decreased CO 2 emissions were observed in the YRD among the three urban agglomerations. Innovation did not have a significant positive and direct effect on reducing CO 2 emissions in the PRD, which is partly because the PRD is an important base of manufacturing and export in the world, and compared with companies in the BTH and YRD, those in the PRD have stronger autonomous innovation ability, while university and scientific research institution innovations are obviously lagging far behind [16]. The former has a greater focus on new technology, products, and facilities to obtain economic benefits rather than environmental profits in the race for economic growth, whereas the latter focuses more on fundamental research, including emission reduction technology [43,44].…”

“…Due to industrial transfer, cooperation, the increasing mobility of the factor of production, and the fiercer regional competition between cities under the developed transportation network, CO 2 emissions spillover or diffuse into neighboring regions from local cities and are not restricted to the local city [37]. In particular, in urban agglomerations, which are considered a network of cities with higher population densities, a higher concentration of industry, compact spatial configurations and close socioeconomic ties based on highly developed transport and communication infrastructures [16], the high level of urban integration strengthens the spatial spillover effect on CO 2 emissions. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce the spatial econometric model to estimate and analyze the spatial spillover effect on CO 2 emissions between cities in urban agglomerations.…”

“…According to statistics, China's CO 2 emissions accounted for 29% of the total global emissions in 2015, and China has been the largest CO 2 -emitting country since 2006 [15]. In particular, the new round of urbanization via urban agglomeration has become an important means for governments to promote continuous economic growth in China [16]. Therefore, research on the impact of urbanization on CO 2 emissions in urban agglomerations is vitally important to help the China government reduce energy consumption and CO 2 emissions.Innovation is considered an important factor in promoting economic sustainable development and…”

Construction of ecological security pattern based on the importance of ecosystem service functions and ecological sensitivity assessment: a case study in Fengxian County of Jiangsu Province, China

“…At present, with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, the phenomena of population growth and urban expansion appear to be more and more prominent, which have exerted tremendous pressure on resources and the environment. The ecological environment has reached a critical state, which is accompanied by a series of problems such as loss of biodiversity, aggravation of soil and water losses and land desertification (Fang et al 2019;Plieninger et al 2015;Yao et al 2019). The problem has threatened the safety of human life and property as well as the sustainable development of society and the economy seriously.…”

Investigating the Relationship between the Industrial Structure and Atmospheric Environment by an Integrated System: A Case Study of Zhejiang, China

“…At the same time, coordination is the process of benign interaction and development between systems or among the elements within the system, while coordination degree is a quantitative index to measure the coordination between systems. Combining the concepts of coupling and coordination, a lot of researchers have adopted coupling coordination degree model (CCDM) to measure different systems' relationships, such as urbanization and the eco-environment system [45][46][47][48], urbanization and the atmospheric environment system [26,49], industrial structure and the eco-environment system [4], socio-economy and the energy environment [50,51], the economy-resource-environment system [52], etc. However, few studies have explored the coupling and coordination relationship between the industrial structure system and atmospheric environment system.…”