社会资本是欧盟绿色转型的驱动力吗？

IF 6.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Ecological Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-24 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108500

Jesús Peiró-Palomino , Lisa Gianmoena , Andrés J. Picazo-Tadeo , Vicente Rios

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摘要

绿色转型是欧洲政策制定者非常感兴趣的一个话题。人们普遍承认，社会中的社会文化因素，如社会资本，对环境绩效有重大影响。欧洲地区在社会资本和环境行为方面差异很大。然而，在地方层面的相关研究却很少。本文利用2021年欧盟230个地区的数据，研究了社会资本对空气质量的影响，空气质量是环境绩效的一个关键指标。结果表明，该方法具有良好的鲁棒性，且对多种模型规格和内生性都具有良好的鲁棒性。本文还探讨了一些潜在的传导机制，揭示了社会资本的积极效应是通过政府质量和更严格的环境政策来引导的。这些见解表明，区域社会资本禀赋可能是整个欧洲地区均匀发生的绿色转型的决定因素。

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Is social capital a driver of the green transition in the European Union?

The green transition is a topic of great interest for European policymakers. It is broadly acknowledged that socio-cultural elements embedded in societies, such as social capital, have a major influence on environmental performance. European regions differ widely in terms of both social capital and environmental behavior. However, there are very few related studies at the sub-national level. Using data on 230 regions of the European Union in 2021, this paper examines the impact of social capital on air quality, which is a key indicator of environmental performance. The results show a positive effect, which is robust to several model specifications and to endogeneity. Some potential transmission mechanisms are also explored, revealing that the positive effects of social capital are channeled through the quality of government and more stringent environmental policy. These insights suggest that regional social capital endowments can be a determinant of a green transition that occurs evenly across European regions.

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Ecological Economics 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

12.00

自引率

5.70%

发文量

313

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ecological Economics is concerned with extending and integrating the understanding of the interfaces and interplay between "nature''s household" (ecosystems) and "humanity''s household" (the economy). Ecological economics is an interdisciplinary field defined by a set of concrete problems or challenges related to governing economic activity in a way that promotes human well-being, sustainability, and justice. The journal thus emphasizes critical work that draws on and integrates elements of ecological science, economics, and the analysis of values, behaviors, cultural practices, institutional structures, and societal dynamics. The journal is transdisciplinary in spirit and methodologically open, drawing on the insights offered by a variety of intellectual traditions, and appealing to a diverse readership. Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modelling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics.