Spatiotemporal effects of intercity economic network on water use efficiency in China: A multidimensional proximity perspective

IF 6 1区经济学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES

Cities Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2025.105764

Yingqi Sun , Lu Da , Zhaoqian Yang , Zilong Zhang , Yuliang Wang

{"title":"Spatiotemporal effects of intercity economic network on water use efficiency in China: A multidimensional proximity perspective","authors":"Yingqi Sun , Lu Da , Zhaoqian Yang , Zilong Zhang , Yuliang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105764","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Water use efficiency is increasingly influenced by the intercity economic network in the context of flow space. It is crucial to evaluate the impact of intercity economic network on water use efficiency from a multidimensional proximity perspective for urban sustainability. This paper investigated the spatiotemporal changes in water use efficiency and intercity economic network indexed by corporates connection among 283 cities in China, and explored the direct and indirect impacts of intercity economic network on water use efficiency from the perspective of multidimensional proximity by applying spatial Durbin model with panel data. Findings indicate that intercity economic network has transitioned towards to state of polycentricity and equilibrium and has shown positive direct impact on water use efficiency in dimensions of geographical proximity and network proximity. Whereas the indirect impact is significantly positive only when employing the directed network proximity. The impacts transcend geographical boundaries, leading to directional spatial spillover effects. The intercity economic network improves water use efficiency by enhancing innovation capabilities and promoting borrowed size, exhibiting regional heterogeneity in geographical location and population size.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 105764"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cities","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125000642","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"URBAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Water use efficiency is increasingly influenced by the intercity economic network in the context of flow space. It is crucial to evaluate the impact of intercity economic network on water use efficiency from a multidimensional proximity perspective for urban sustainability. This paper investigated the spatiotemporal changes in water use efficiency and intercity economic network indexed by corporates connection among 283 cities in China, and explored the direct and indirect impacts of intercity economic network on water use efficiency from the perspective of multidimensional proximity by applying spatial Durbin model with panel data. Findings indicate that intercity economic network has transitioned towards to state of polycentricity and equilibrium and has shown positive direct impact on water use efficiency in dimensions of geographical proximity and network proximity. Whereas the indirect impact is significantly positive only when employing the directed network proximity. The impacts transcend geographical boundaries, leading to directional spatial spillover effects. The intercity economic network improves water use efficiency by enhancing innovation capabilities and promoting borrowed size, exhibiting regional heterogeneity in geographical location and population size.

Abstract Image

查看原文本刊更多论文

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Cities URBAN STUDIES-

CiteScore

11.20

自引率

9.00%

发文量

517

期刊介绍： Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.