Study on environmental Kuznets Curve for noise pollution: A case of 111 Chinese cities

Xu, Chang; Zhang, Yiwen; Cheng, Baodong; Li, Lingchao; Zhang, Mengzhen

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2020.102493

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“…As per capita income grows in the first stage, then pollution factors decrease as a result. New types of pollution will arise due to economic expansion, and existing market mechanisms and environmental regulations may not effectively mitigate these new types of pollution [ 26 ]. When the government has sufficient pollution data and uses cleaner manufacturing technologies, then it will set higher environmental standards and enforce stricter environmental rules [ 60 ].…”

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“…The investigation result indicated a relationship between economic growth per capita and SO 2 emissions and COD release in the period 1998–2016, which also confirmed the pollution halo hypothesis. In the same context, [ 26 ] examined the association relationship between noise pollution and economic growth in 111 Chinese cities by using the GMM approach to test the existence of the N-shaped EKC hypothesis; the result confirmed the invert N-shape between economic growth per capita and noise pollution.…”

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confidence: 94%

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Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypotheses in Chinese Provinces: A Nexus between Regional Government Expenditures and Environmental Quality

Zeraibi

Balsalobre‐Lorente

Shehzad

2021

IJERPH

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With rapid economic growth, the Chinese government expenditures at various levels have increased adequately. At the same time, the environmental quality in China has deteriorated significantly. In this study, provincial-level data for 31 Chinese provinces during 2007–2017 are used to investigate the impacts of government expenditure on the emissions of three specific measures of environmental degradation. The main objective of this study is to examine the influence of government expenditures, economic growth per capita, environment protection expenditure, and added second-sector value on environmental quality by measuring sulfur dioxide (SO2), chemical oxygen demand (COD), and ammonia nitrogen emissions (AN). Moreover, the study applied the generalized method of moments (GMM) and the fully modified least square (FMOLS) to estimate the co-integration relationship among the underlying factors. The results demonstrate a significant direct effect of government expenditure on improving environmental quality overall in the Chinese provinces, which increases with the level of economic growth. However, the results also confirmed the inverted N-shaped relationship between the pollution factor and economic growth per capita. Our key findings lead toward the manifestation and emphasis of the importance of appropriate policies for restoring government expenditure and, at the same time, strengthening the relationship between the industrial sector and environmental policy standards. Significantly, governments in developing countries should allocate larger budgets for environmental projects in their fiscal reforms for the sake of moving to greener and more inclusive economies with low-carbon activities.

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Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypotheses in Chinese Provinces: A Nexus between Regional Government Expenditures and Environmental Quality

Zeraibi

Balsalobre‐Lorente

Shehzad

2021

IJERPH

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“…In addition, the increased pressure on the ecological footprint results from increased demand for consumption and usage associated with economic growth, trade expansion, and globalization (Ansari et al 2020). Some researchers have debated the impact of environmental degradation on national economic growth (Sarkodie and Strezov 2019;Boufateh and Saadaoui 2020;Ike et al 2020), confirming that, in the long run, economic growth implies ascending demand for environmental quality (Lacheheb et al 2015;Xu et al 2020). Hence, the N-shaped EKC empirical evidence (Álvarez-Herranz et al 2017;Balsalobre-Lorente et al 2018;Ekeocha 2021) admits the return to an ascending environmental pressure after a certain income level is achieved.…”

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Environmental strategies for achieving a new foreign direct investment golden decade in Algeria

Chaouachi¹,

Balsalobre‐Lorente

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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While numerous studies have discussed the impact of economic growth on the environment, this paper advances in the empirical literature, aiming to validate the existence of an N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship between the ecological footprint and economic growth in Algeria during the period 1975–2014. The proposed empirical model includes as additional explanatory variables the foreign direct investment (FDI) and the electricity consumption aimed to increase the relevance of the results, correcting the lack of studies that have previously analyzed the EKC for the case of Algeria. Through the ARDL econometric approach, we confirm an N-shaped EKC between the per capita economic growth and ecological footprint in Algeria, reinforcing these results using the FMOLS and DOLS techniques. In the long run, the empirical results confirmed that the N-shaped EKC in Algeria is valid; electricity consumption and foreign direct investment directly impact ecological footprint. Even though the main objective of this study is to assess the N-shaped EKC, the novelty of the paper is the analysis of the interaction between FDI and electricity consumption. The empirical evidence reveals that FDI contributes to reducing the negative impact of fossil sources in the energy mix in Algeria through the transition to a cleaner energy mix pattern. In the final step of our analysis, we explore the causal nexus among variables by applying the Toda Yamamoto non-causality test. The Toda Yamamoto non-causality test reveals a unidirectional causality between economic growth and ecological footprint; one-run relationship flows from electricity consumption to ecological footprint, and economic growth leads to cause foreign-direct investment. These empirical results evidence the necessity of establishing suitable policies after the gold decade of the FDI in Algeria, being required to advance in this line to come back to ascending levels of FDI after the financial crisis of 2008 and the current COVID-19 crisis. In this sense, policymakers should consider the advantages of FDI for promoting clean foreign investment, necessary for reaching a transition to sustainable development in Algeria. In this sense, this study proposes a battery of environmental strategies to achieve this objective and sustainable growth in the country. Thus, policy implications and directions for future research are suggested. Graphical abstract

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“…Noise monitoring systems can detail the changes in noise levels over the years and contribute to the determination of urban growth policies. Xu et al [ 71 ] mentioned that the noise monitoring data from 111 cities in China from 1991 to 2017 was used to analyze the relationship between noise pollution and economic development. In the study, it was clarified that the development of the tertiary industry will increase noise pollution.…”

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Preparation of Industrial Noise Mapping and Improvement of Environmental Quality

Bozkurt

2021

Curr Pollution Rep

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Environmental noise control is necessary for human health and auditory comfort conditions. In this respect, it is required that industrial noise should be kept under control and healthy living spaces should be obtained in residential areas. This paper aims to explain industrial noise control at urban and building scales. In this study, the strategic noise mapping process related to industrial activities in a line with the Environmental Noise Directive (END) was clarified. Besides this, what type of factors are effective in the industrial noise mapping process were defined, and important basic parameters, which are essential in the industrial noise mapping, were detailed. The preparation of the industrial noise mapping process was explained in detail. It was mentioned that the regions exposed to excessive noise should be defined according to the strategic noise map and improvement plans should be performed. Improvement methods that reduce excessive noise in living spaces are clarified and it was explained how the improvement of environmental quality can be acquired. In this regard, this paper gives information on industrial noise mapping and industrial noise control at the urban scale.

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Study on environmental Kuznets Curve for noise pollution: A case of 111 Chinese cities

Cited by 41 publications

References 58 publications

Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypotheses in Chinese Provinces: A Nexus between Regional Government Expenditures and Environmental Quality

Testing the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypotheses in Chinese Provinces: A Nexus between Regional Government Expenditures and Environmental Quality

Environmental strategies for achieving a new foreign direct investment golden decade in Algeria

Preparation of Industrial Noise Mapping and Improvement of Environmental Quality

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