The relationships between industrial pollution intensity and economic growth based on intensity environment Kuznets curve
Study on China’s pilot cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19500618 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Qilu Tan (State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control), Zongguo Wen (0000-0003-2670-0112, Tsinghua University, corresponding author), Jining Chen (0009-0008-0357-6802, Tsinghua University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 231-241 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4509 • E-ISSN: 1745-2627 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504509.2014.994233 |
| OpenAlex | W2011282083 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 27 |
In order to enrich the study of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) on pollution intensity, we analyze the relationship between industrial pollution intensity (pollution per GDP) and economic growth (GDP per capita) using data 1993–2012 from 46 Chinese pilot cities. Our study tracks seven types of industrial pollution intensity: wastewater, COD, waste gas, SO2, soot, dust, and solid waste emissions. The relationship statistically follows two stages: industrial pollution intensity begets a rapid initial decrease with development of economy in the first stage and then the reduction rates gradually stabilized in the second stage. Such a curve is named IEKC (Intensity Environmental Kuznets Curve) in this paper. Power function model is suitable for quantitatively describing this hypothesis and a parameter from the model named elasticity coefficient of sustainability (ECS) is utilized for urban sustainability assessment. We find that China cities have a higher level of sustainability in the relationships between industrial wastewater, chemical oxygen demand (COD), dust, soot, and economic growth than the other three pollutants. 'The after effect' could be revealed from studying the relationship between ECS and economic development: cities at medium level of economic development usually have greater ECS values than developed ones because the former have learned the latter's experience of political governance on economy–environment relationship and introduced mature/advanced pollution-controlling technologies
China · Econometrics · Economics · Energy consumption · Energy intensity · Environmental pollution · Environmental protection · Geography · Kuznets Curve · Natural resource economics · Per capita · Pollutant · Soot · Sustainability · Chemistry · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth · Engineering · Environmental Impact and Sustainability · Environmental Science · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Pollution
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |