Impact of Environmental Decentralization on Regional Green Development

IF 2.3 3区社会学 Q2 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Journal of Environment & Development Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI:10.1177/1070496519870276

Xuan Zou, Can Lei, K. Gao, Chun-Tien Hu

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Abstract

Having a reasonable environmental management system is key to achieve regional green development. This article integrates environmental decentralization into an environmental/economic analytical framework, introducing a fiscal decentralization indicator to explore the mechanism of environmental decentralization and regional green development, and then tests this concept using Chinese provincial penal data. The results show that the spillover effect of green development is significant: Improving regional green development will promote green development in neighboring regions. At the national level, different categories of environmental decentralization have different effects, and these can also affect green development through both direct and indirect paths. There is also a positive interaction mechanism between these two variables. Moreover, the interaction between environmental and fiscal decentralization has a negative effect on regional green development, with the impact varying across regions. These findings play an important role in green development, industrial transformation, and advancement, especially in China.

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环境分权对区域绿色发展的影响

建立合理的环境管理体系是实现区域绿色发展的关键。本文将环境分权纳入环境/经济分析框架，引入财政分权指标，探讨环境分权与区域绿色发展的机制，并利用中国各省的刑事数据对这一概念进行检验。结果表明:绿色发展的溢出效应显著:提高区域绿色发展水平将促进周边区域的绿色发展;在国家层面上，不同类型的环境分权具有不同的效果，也可以通过直接和间接途径影响绿色发展。这两个变量之间也存在着一种正向的相互作用机制。此外，环境分权与财政分权的交互作用对区域绿色发展具有负面影响，且影响程度在不同区域之间存在差异。这些发现对绿色发展、产业转型和产业进步具有重要的指导意义，特别是在中国。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Environment & Development seeks to further research and debate on the nexus of environment and development issues at the local, national, regional, and international levels. The journal provides a forum that bridges the parallel debates among policy makers, attorneys, academics, business people, and NGO activists from all regions of the world. The journal invites submissions in such topics areas as the interaction between trade and environment; the role of local, national, regional, and international institutions in environmental governance; analysis of international environmental agreements; the impact of environmental regulation on investment policy; legal and scientific issues related to sustainable development.