Metropolitan air pollution abatement and industrial growth: Global urban panel analysis of PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and SO2

IF 2.4 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Sociology Pub Date : 2021-09-12 DOI:10.1080/23251042.2021.1975349

Benjamin Leffel, Nikki Tavasoli, Brantley Liddle, Kent E. Henderson, Sabrina Kiernan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study re-scales analysis of global environmental change down to the city-level, where it is becoming increasingly significant, to examine the relationship between air pollution abatement and industrial growth. Treadmill of Production theorists argue that economic growth leads to increased pollution, while Environmental Kuznets Curve research suggests that income increases initially lead to pollution increases, but begins to result in reductions after an economy transitions from manufacturing to services-based industries. We investigate whether growth in specific services industries is associated with pollution abatement in the presence of increasing income. For 96 of the world’s largest metropolitan areas, we test the effects of panel data on income, growth across several services industry sectors and other controls on levels of course particulate matter (PM10), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Sulfur dioxide (SO2) during 2005–2017. We find that reductions of all four air pollutants are associated with local growth in public administration, environmental and health services industry sectors linked specifically to government spending, while pollution increases are associated with growth in manufacturing and mining industries. This affords important nuance to the debate on the reconcilability of economic growth and environmental protection, and on a more spatially granular scale.

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大都市空气污染治理与工业增长：PM10、PM2.5、NO2和SO2的全球城市面板分析

本研究将全球环境变化的分析重新调整到城市层面，以检验空气污染减排与工业增长之间的关系。生产跑步机理论的理论家认为，经济增长导致污染增加，而环境库兹涅茨曲线的研究表明，收入增加最初导致污染增加，但在经济从制造业转向以服务业为基础的工业后，污染开始减少。我们调查了在收入增加的情况下，特定服务行业的增长是否与污染减排有关。在全球96个最大的大都市地区，我们测试了面板数据对2005-2017年期间收入、多个服务业部门的增长以及其他控制当然颗粒物(PM10)、细颗粒物(PM2.5)、二氧化氮(NO2)和二氧化硫(SO2)水平的影响。我们发现，所有四种空气污染物的减少都与当地公共管理、环境和卫生服务行业的增长有关，这些行业与政府支出密切相关，而污染的增加则与制造业和采矿业的增长有关。这为关于经济增长和环境保护的可调和性的辩论提供了重要的细微差别，并在更大的空间颗粒尺度上。

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Environmental Sociology ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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4.60

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12.00%

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期刊介绍： Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences. Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.