Regional Environmental Regulation and IndustrialStructure Upgrading: Prefecture -Level Evidencefrom China

IF 0.4 4区环境科学与生态学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Journal of Environmental Science and Management Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI:10.47125/jesam/2022_1/02

Binbin Yu, Lijun Lu

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Abstract

Environmental regulation is not only an effective method to control pollutants and wastes, but also a vital factor that can be used to influence industrial structure. This study applies the panel data of 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2004 to 2016 to verify spatial autocorrelation between industrial structure upgrading and regional environmental regulation and then uses dynamic spatial panel model (DSPM) to verify how regional environmental regulation both directly and indirectly influences industrial structure upgrading. There is a close spatial autocorrelation in Chinese cities between industrial structure upgrading and regional environmental regulation. The estimation results of DSPM show that regional environmental regulation only acts on that particular region’s industrial structural upgrading but not on the upgrading in other regions. The heterogeneity results show that from economic development, human capital, and foreign direct investment perspectives, regional environmental regulation is also able to reduce the negative impacts of industrial structure upgrading. The strengthening of both infrastructure and government intervention promotes industrial structure upgrading. This study provides effective empirical support for adjustments to China’s industrial structure and regional environmental regulation policy making.

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区域环境调控与产业结构升级：来自中国的地市级证据

环境规制不仅是控制污染物和废物的有效手段，也是影响产业结构的重要因素。本研究利用2004~2016年中国285个地级市的面板数据，验证了产业结构升级与区域环境调节之间的空间自相关关系，并利用动态空间面板模型（DSPM）验证了区域环境调节如何直接和间接影响产业结构升级。中国城市产业结构升级与区域环境调控之间存在着密切的空间自相关关系。DSPM的估计结果表明，区域环境规制只作用于该区域的产业结构升级，而不作用于其他区域的产业升级。异质性结果表明，从经济发展、人力资本和外国直接投资的角度来看，区域环境规制也能够减少产业结构升级的负面影响。基础设施的加强和政府干预都促进了产业结构的升级。本研究为我国产业结构调整和区域环境调控政策制定提供了有效的实证支持。

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Journal of Environmental Science and Management ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-

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0.90

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审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Environmental Science and Management (JESAM) is an international scientific journal produced semi-annually by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). JESAM gives particular premium to manuscript submissions that employ integrated methods resulting to analyses that provide new insights in environmental science, particularly in the areas of: environmental planning and management; protected areas development, planning, and management; community-based resources management; environmental chemistry and toxicology; environmental restoration; social theory and environment; and environmental security and management.