Multiple impacts of environmental regulation on the steel industry in China: A recursive dynamic steel industry chain CGE analysis

Lee, Seonjoo; Zeng, Anqi; Zhong, Meirui; Huang, Jianbai; Qu, Hongping

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.10.350

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“…The predominance of certain types of industry within countries can also be a driving factor for the creation of industrial symbiosis networks. This is particularly true if they are large consumers of resources and emitters of greenhouse gases, such as the steel and iron industry in China [97,160], and if they play a key role in economic development, such as the agri-food industry in Italy [65] and the iron, steel, and cement industries in China [160,161]. Moreover, these industries have a longstanding tradition in these countries and are located in industrially mature areas, which Jensen et al [92] have shown to facilitate industrial symbiosis.…”

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The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

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Industrial symbiosis, which is characterised mainly by the reuse of waste from one company as raw material by another, has been applied worldwide with recognised environmental, economic, and social benefits. However, the potential for industrial symbiosis is not exhausted in existing cases, and there is still a wide range of opportunities for its application. Through a comprehensive literature review, this article aims to compile and analyse studies that focus on potential industrial symbiosis in real contexts, to highlight the margin of optimisation that is not being used. The cases reported in the publications identified here were characterised and analysed according to geographic location, type of economic activity, waste/by-products, main benefits, and the methods employed in the studies. From this analysis, we conclude that there is great potential for applications involving industrial symbiosis throughout the world, and especially in Europe, corresponding to 53% of the total cases analysed. Manufacturing stood out as the sector with the highest potential for establishing symbiosis relationships, and the most common types of waste streams in potential networks were organic, plastic and rubber, wood, and metallic materials. This article also discusses the main drivers and barriers to realising the potential of industrial symbiosis. The diversity of industries, geographical proximity, facilitating entities and legislation, plans, and policies are shown to be the main drivers.

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“…China's rapid and insufficiently regulated economic growth has caused environmental problems that impact human health. Studies have suggested that a regulatory approach to environmental management is only moderately helpful (Hao et al [1]; Zhu et al [2]; Xie et al [3]). A plan to improve the environmental management of air pollution by coordinating various government and local agencies emerged in early 2017.…”

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“…According to Baron and Kenny [35], if β 1 is significant and both δ 1 and δ 2 are significant (only δ 2 is significant), REGULATION is a partial (complete) mediator. The reasoning is that, if environmental enforcement is a mediating factor, the Coordination pushes for more enforcement (in Equation (1)), which leads to more firm-level investment (in Equation (2). We present the findings in Table 7.…”

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“…Using Beijing as the focus, it asked four ministries (Ecology and Environment, the National Economic Development Committee, Finance, and Energy) to coordinate with two autonomous cities (Beijing and Tianjian) and 26 major cities in four surrounding provinces (Huibei, Shanxi, Shangdong, and Henan) to create an air quality plan to manage air pollution. The three major provision of the Coordination are: (1) to develop air quality standards and apply them to these 28 major cities, (2) to publicly disclose the relative city rankings of air quality each month and evaluate government officials quarterly on the basis of those relative rankings, and (3) to audit air quality in these 28 major cities by using environmental inspectors. These inspectors have the authority to close polluting businesses and reprimand or dismiss city officials.…”

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“…In the process of pursuing fast economic growth, however, China has emitted a problematic amount of pollution. In response, the Chinese government has attempted to regulate pollution, but the effectiveness of these policies has been limited (Hao et al [1]; Zhu et al [2]; Xie et al [3]). Studies on the effectiveness of environmental regulations have primarily focused on the content of regulations (Faure and Svatikova [4]; Faure and Zhang [5]) or firms' responses to different types of regulations (Gao et al [6]; El-Bassiouny and Letmathe, [7]; and Zhou and Shen [8]).…”

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Is a Regional Coordination Approach to Air Pollution Management Helpful? Evidence from China

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In February 2017 China began to require the regional coordination of four ministries and 28 cities surrounding Beijing to manage air pollution. The Coordination attempts to unify air pollution standards and implements various new methods to monitor air pollution. Leveraging the natural experiment and using a difference-in-differences research design, we note that firms located in the treatment cities invest more in the environment than those in the control cities. In addition, we find that non-state-owned firms (non-SOEs) respond more strongly than SOEs. The findings remain qualitatively the same after accounting for selection bias in the cities included in the Coordination. Most importantly, air quality improves for treatment cities after the implementation of the Coordination. Our findings offer lessons to other emerging markets for implementing their air pollution management programs. Specifically, we sharpen our knowledge of the administrative management needed to improve coordination among government agencies and local officials in the management of air pollution and suggest that the government can play an active role in enhancing air pollution management.

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Multiple impacts of environmental regulation on the steel industry in China: A recursive dynamic steel industry chain CGE analysis

Cited by 64 publications

References 43 publications

The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

Is a Regional Coordination Approach to Air Pollution Management Helpful? Evidence from China

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