Regional difference decomposition and policy implications of China's urban land use efficiency under the environmental restriction

Lu, Xinhai; Kuang, Bing; Li, Jing

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2017.11.016

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“…First, when industries only concentrate in space but do not produce external economies of scale, the cost of total factor productivity may not be reduced but performs high because of the investment of land, labor and materials. Under this condition, LUE can be relatively low [3]. Second, when returns to economic scale by industrial clustering effects can obviously reduce urban average production costs, urban areas would contribute more output values and less input values than rural and peri-urban areas.…”

Section: Industrial Agglomeration and Luementioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, economically efficient land use is highly important as it is a good way to relieve the serious conflict among population, environment, and space. Exploring the characteristics of the relationship between industrial agglomeration and LUE is of great significance for the efficient integration between urban land use system and economic externalities [3]. Therefore, it is necessary to study whether industrial agglomerations in cities lead to efficient land use or rather produce negative diseconomy of land use.…”

Section: Industrial Agglomeration and Luementioning

confidence: 99%

“…From the perspective of industrial development, LUE is defined as the industrial output per industrial land area [1]. When considering environmental protection and complexity of cities, some scholars argued that LUE should be defined as the efficiency of an input-output process estimated by an evaluation system including land elements, energy consumption, and others [3]. In view of urban space, the disordered urban expansion is partially due to inappropriate urban industrial planning and extensive land use.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, increasing economic output in urban areas is a feasible means to realize this planning objective. To achieve a best economic overall layout of a city, LUE and its influencing factors should be recognized as key references-for policy making in the land use planning and industrial planning [3]. For example, an industrial project with a high LUE should be rendered a high priority for deployment and development.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Does Urban Industrial Agglomeration Lead to the Improvement of Land Use Efficiency in China? An Empirical Study from a Spatial Perspective

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Industrial agglomeration is an important economic phenomenon in urban areas and has significant effects on land use efficiency (LUE) due to external economies of scale. A bourgeoning body of literature has investigated the effects of industrial agglomeration. However, the relationship between industrial agglomeration and land use efficiency has rarely been discussed in China. To fill this gap, this study aims to explore the effects of industrial agglomeration on LUE and the characteristics of its spatial distribution. In this study, the spatial effects of industrial agglomeration of 12 detailed sectors on LUE are estimated through the geographical weighted regression model. Socioeconomic data of 289 prefecture-level cities in China are utilized for the analysis. Results show several important findings. First, spatial effects of industrial agglomerations on LUE are evident in three grand city clusters, i.e. the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta. Second, spatial patterns and distributions of industrial agglomeration effects on LUE vary across regions. Third, the significance of industrial agglomeration effects on LUE between 2-digit industrial sectors is different. The merits of this study lie in three aspects: First, a theoretical framework is explored to analyze the impacts of industrial agglomeration on LUE based on the expanded Cobb–Douglas production function; Second, the impacts of industrial sectors on LUE are estimated from a spatial perspective; Third, some policy implications for a more economically efficient urban spatial development are suggested.

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Section: Industrial Agglomeration and Luementioning

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Section: Industrial Agglomeration and Luementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…However, previous studies on cultivated land are concentrated on abandonment, protection, conversion, consolidation, quality, and fragmentation [5][6][7][8][9]. Additionally, studies related to land use efficiency are limited to urban and industrial lands [10,11]. By contrast, little attention has been paid to CLUE.…”

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Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of Cultivated Land Use Efficiency in Major Function-Oriented Zones: A Case Study of Zhejiang Province, China

Zhang

Gang-qiao

et al. 2020

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Promoting cultivated land use efficiency (CLUE) coordinated development in various major function-oriented zones is a measure to deal with unbalanced development of territorial space in China. Taking the optimized development, key development, agricultural production, ecological function, and ecological economic zones of Zhejiang province as research objects, this study incorporated agricultural carbon emission into the measurement framework of CLUE and analyzed the regional disparity and the convergence of CLUE from 2008 to 2017, using slack-based measure model (SBM), the Theil index, and convergence theory. The main results are as follows: (1) The CLUE value that considered agricultural carbon emissions was lower than the CLUE value that did not consider agricultural carbon emissions; thus, agricultural carbon emissions had a negative effect on CLUE. (2) The CLUE value of the five major function-oriented zones showed an increasing trend; after ranking the CLUE value, the CLUE of the optimized development zones was the highest, followed by the ecological function, ecological economic, and key development zones, and that of the agricultural production zones was the lowest, indicating significant regional disparity. (3) The overall disparity of CLUE presented an upward trend, and the within-regional disparity is the main source of the overall disparity. (4) Neither σ convergence nor absolute β convergence occurred in the CLUE of the five major function-oriented zones, but conditional β convergence occurred among the optimized development and ecological economic zones. Although the planning of major function-oriented zones reflects the regional disparity and convergence of CLUE to some extent, the CLUE under the control of major function-oriented zones is not consistent with the function positioning.

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Performance evaluation, environmental regulation, and urban land green use efficiency: Evidence from China

Fan

Zhou

Xie

2023

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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Environmental regulation plays an important role in enhancing urban land green use efficiency (ULGUE), while economic and environmental performance evaluation may also impact ULGUE in the Chinese context. Using data from 282 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2019, this article empirically tests the impacts of performance evaluation and environmental regulation on ULGUE by establishing a two-way fixed-effect model. The results show that environmental regulation has a significant contribution to ULGUE. However, environmental regulation also significantly increase carbon emissions from urban construction land, which is mainly influenced by the Chinese government's performance assessment. Therefore, the effect of performance evaluation is also examined. Economic performance evaluation is detrimental to environmental regulation and ULGUE, while environmental performance evaluation significantly contribute to both. Furthermore, economic performance evaluation and environmental regulation can synergistically promote ULGUE, however, environmental performance evaluation failed to have the same synergistic effect. Notably, when the ratio of economic performance evaluation to environmental performance evaluation was 2:8, performance evaluation and environmental regulation reached the optimal level for promoting ULGUE. Therefore, to improve ULGUE, it is necessary to establish and strengthen the constraint mechanism of environmental regulation on carbon emission from urban construction land. Meanwhile, local governments' performance assessment mechanism must be improved and the ratio of economic to environmental performance evaluation should be reasonably configured.

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Regional difference decomposition and policy implications of China's urban land use efficiency under the environmental restriction

Cited by 125 publications

References 50 publications

Does Urban Industrial Agglomeration Lead to the Improvement of Land Use Efficiency in China? An Empirical Study from a Spatial Perspective

Does Urban Industrial Agglomeration Lead to the Improvement of Land Use Efficiency in China? An Empirical Study from a Spatial Perspective

Spatial-Temporal Characteristics of Cultivated Land Use Efficiency in Major Function-Oriented Zones: A Case Study of Zhejiang Province, China

Performance evaluation, environmental regulation, and urban land green use efficiency: Evidence from China

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