Seawater environmental Kuznets curve: Evidence from seawater quality in China's coastal waters

Wang, Zhibao; Bu, Chao; Li, Hongmei; Wei, Wendong

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.012

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“…能源是人类社会赖以生存和发展的物质基础，更是重要的战略资源。目前，中国经济增长正处于粗放型向集约型的转变阶段。在此过程中，工业化及城镇化推动了能源需求的快速增长 [1][2][3] ，而紧张的能源供需关系限制了地区社会经济的发展 [4] 。因此，能耗模式的转变成为实现中国区域经济可持续发展、绿色发展的关键。中国能源消耗具有总量高、人均低的数量特征 [5] 、以煤炭为主的结构特征 [5,6] 、依赖性和差异性的空间特征 [7,8] 。能源消耗推动了经济增长，两者存在长期的因果关系 [9,10] ：能源消耗是经济增长的动力源泉，经济增长是能源消耗增加的最主要因素，二者互为动因 [11,12] 。但能源消耗与经济增长间的关系存在明显阶段性特征，当前处于相对乐观的弱脱钩状态 [6] 。同时，能源消耗尤其是煤炭的使用所带来的环境问题日益加剧，合理的能耗模式成为能源可持续利用的重要途径。基于能源消耗的特征，相关能源政策可从能源利用效率 [13,14] 、能源消耗结构 [5,15] 、产业结构 [16,17] 等角度制定，而能源消耗的空间差异性也要求各地能源政策须因地制宜 [4,18] [19] 和差异化的近岸海域水环境库兹涅茨曲线 [20] ，尝试构建差异化的能源库兹涅茨曲线 (Energy Kuznets Curve， EKC) [21]…”

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Change of energy consumption pattern and its impact on economic development in China

Zhao¹,

WANG²,

Li³

2021

资源科学

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Change of energy consumption pattern and its impact on economic development in China

Zhao¹,

WANG²,

Li³

2021

资源科学

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“…The majority of studies have examined the relationship between CO 2 emissions and income levels (e.g., [48,[60][61][62]). Some studies attempted to reveal potential determinants of CO 2 emissions, such as: energy consumption and urbanization [62], industrial structure [63], technological progress [64], foreign trade [65]. Recent studies explore other dependent variables, such as: energy intensity [66] or material use (e.g., [67]).…”

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The Link between Economic Complexity and Carbon Emissions in the European Union Countries: A Model Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) Approach

Neagu

2019

Sustainability

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The aim of the paper is to apply the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) model in order to explore the link between economic complexity index (ECI) and carbon emissions, in 25 selected European Union (EU) countries from 1995–2017. The study examines a cointegrating polynomial regression (CPR) for a panel data framework as well as for simple time series of individual countries. In the model is also included the variable ‘energy intensity’ as main determinant of carbon emissions. Depending on economic complexity, the CO2 emissions pattern was found to exhibit an inverted U-shaped curve: in the initial phase, pollution increases when countries augment the complexity of the products they export using and after a turning point the rise of economic complexity suppress the pollutant emissions. The panel cointegration test indicates a long-run relationship between economic complexity, energy intensity and carbon emissions. It was also found that a rise of 10% of energy intensity would lead to a 3.9% increase in CO2 emissions. The quadratic model incorporating ECI is validated for the whole panel as well as for six countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom). The graphical representation of the EKC in these countries is discussed. Policy implications are also included.

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“…, 2016; Chen et al. , 2019; Wenbo and Yan, 2018), CO 2 emission intensity (Wenbo and Yan, 2018), SO 2 emissions (Wang et al. , 2019), coal consumption, wastewater and solid waste emissions (Li et al.…”

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“…The authors have validated the presence of EKC with an N-shape curve in static and dynamic specifications for the complete sample. Additionally, there are several studies that investigate the EKC hypothesis for Chinese provinces (Du et al, 2012;Chen and Chen, 2015;Li et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2019;Wenbo and Yan, 2018), revealing either an inverted N-shaped pattern (Kang et al, 2016;Li et al, 2016;Zhao et al, 2016), or a monotonically increasing pattern (Yang et al, 2015). More specifically, evidence in favor of the EKC hypothesis is found for CO 2 emissions (Du et al, 2012;Chen and Chen, 2015;Li et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2019;Wenbo and Yan, 2018), CO 2 emission intensity (Wenbo and Yan, 2018), SO 2 emissions (Wang et al, 2019), coal consumption, wastewater and solid waste emissions (Li et al, 2016), Carbon Dioxide (COD) and NH 3 -N emissions (Zhang et al, 2017), and soot and dust emissions (Chen et al, 2019).…”

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Carbon emissions, inequalities and economic freedom: an empirical investigation in selected South Asian economies

Jain¹,

Kaur

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyze and empirically test the impact of Economic Freedom [(EF) measured by size of the government] and inequality on environmental pollutants in addition to macroeconomic variables like per capita GDP, governance indicators, etc. along with existence of non-linear (Kuznets) postulation between economic growth and per capita emissions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the select Asian nations' data attributes, first qualitatively using correlation data technique, followed by empirical testing using differenced Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM). Using the data of selected Asian countries for the period from 1981 to 2016, the authors have applied a dynamic panel technique.FindingsThe key findings that emerge from the study are as follows: first, there is weak evidence for the existence of the Kuznets curve based on the empirical results; second, the results indicate that increased EF (by lower government size) could enable to contain carbon emissions; third, there is a negative relationship between democracy and environmental quality (corroborating to the existing studies on carbon emissions); and fourth, there is a strong statistical evidence that increasing income inequality pairs with greater emissions in the middle range of Gini.Practical implicationsThe paper conforms to the universally held conviction that government interventions are essentially less productive and the desirability of a reduced size of the government in realizing sustainable green growth with equity.Social implicationsIn an era of liberalization and privatization, it is argued that the role of the government needs to be redefined if not necessarily truncated.Originality/valueThe current paper incorporates Gini (inequality measure) through its intercountry range dummies to study the differential effect of Gini on carbon emissions. Also, in some of the recent studies, distributional issues have surfaced explicitly in the discussion of income–climatic change relationship, but EF largely remains missing. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the same empirically.

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Seawater environmental Kuznets curve: Evidence from seawater quality in China's coastal waters

Cited by 42 publications

References 54 publications

Change of energy consumption pattern and its impact on economic development in China

Change of energy consumption pattern and its impact on economic development in China

The Link between Economic Complexity and Carbon Emissions in the European Union Countries: A Model Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) Approach

Carbon emissions, inequalities and economic freedom: an empirical investigation in selected South Asian economies

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