Under the “dual carbon” targets, the influence of environmental regulation on carbon emissions is critical, and the moderating role of environmental decentralization should not be overlooked. Using provincial panel data from China, this s...
21 November 2020
Fiscal decentralization is one of the tools for the central government to engage local governments in environment management. However, its effects are inconclusive. This paper aims to examine the impact of fiscal decentralization on environmental pol...
Using panel data of 30 provinces and regions in Mainland China (excluding Tibet) from 2006 to 2016, the Spatial Durbin Model was employed for the empirical research, and the spatial impact of fiscal decentralization and environmental decentralization...
The effective enhancement of green total factor productivity (GTFP) through macro-regulatory tools—environmental decentralization and environmental regulation and thus the promotion of high-quality and sustainable economic development—is...
From the perspective of environmental federalism, we extracted the environmental intention words from the work reports of China’s central and provincial governments through data mining, and used the instrumental variable method to conduct empir...
9 June 2022
Green innovation is vital in transforming China’s economic development from high speed to high quality. Environmental regulation plays an important role in stimulating regional green innovation, and appropriate environmental decentralization is...
Fiscal decentralization, as a policy with which to regulate the financial power relationships between central and local governments, undoubtedly has an impact on high-quality economic development, and in the current context of focusing on environment...
Against the background of Chinese decentralization, the preferences and choices of local governments significantly affect the scale and structure of urban construction land supply. Due to the shortage of financial funds and the political performance...
Based on the theory of fiscal decentralization and sustainable development, and the mechanism analysis about fiscal decentralization and government environmental preference to promote industrial green transformation, using China’s provincial pa...
Since the emergence of environmental federalism theory in the 1960s, the empirical research on it has been pursued by scholars, mainly focusing on whether a country’s environmental regulation should be centralized or decentralized. For a long t...
With the rapid economic growth, environmental problems have become a significant bottleneck restricting the high-quality development of China’s economy. In the fiscal decentralization system, balancing economic growth and environmental governan...
Pollutants produced by pig breeding are among the important pollutions. It is necessary to explore the factors influencing the emission intensity of pollutants from pig breeding and find ways to decrease them. Using the provincial panel data of China...
To achieve carbon peaking and neutrality, optimizing power allocation and fiscal responsibilities between China's central and local authorities is essential for balancing environmental and economic goals. This study employs fixed-effects panel regres...
12 August 2022
Green development is necessary for China to carry out high-quality economic development. As an important institutional arrangement in the vertical government structure, fiscal decentralization supports regional green development. Local government env...
Renewable energy development is a long-term means of addressing the climate challenge and achieving environmental sustainability. This study examines the relationship between environmental decentralization, local government competition, and renewable...
By establishing a principal–agent model, this study introduced the local government’s behavior and deduced the local government in the face of incentive policies, which means that it has more power to develop the economy at the cost of en...
In the digital era, digital financial inclusion plays a pivotal role in facilitating green industrial transformation and green development in resource-based cities. In this study, we conduct an in-depth analysis of environmental decentralization and...
22 February 2023
In the context of China’s 14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 visionary goals of national economic and social development, to achieve the national dual carbon goals, an innovation-driven green development strategy must be implemented, and the relation...
9 December 2022
As an important factor of production, the use of energy will greatly improve production efficiency and is the material basis for China’s sustainable development. Environmental regulation plays an important role in energy efficiency (EE), while...
Investigating the fiscal decentralization’s effect on the carbon intensity of agricultural production may assist the United States in reaching its carbon peak and becoming carbon neutral. This paper delves into the investigation of the spatiote...
2 December 2020
This paper uses both fiscal expenditure policy and fiscal revenue policy as input indicators and selects environmental pollution control results reflecting different forms and sources of pollution as output indicators. The efficiency of fiscal polici...
12 July 2019
Most governments strive for an ecological civilization so the efficiency of government expenditure on environmental protection (EPEE) is an important issue. While it is recognized that foreign direct investment (FDI) enhances environmental protection...
This study examines whether green finance promotes green development across Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2005 to 2019. We find a positive association between green finance and green development using panel regressions with city and year fixed...
Based on panel data of resource-based and non-resource-based cities in China from 2011 to 2021, we empirically investigate the effects of environmental decentralization and resource endowment on urban industrial transformation and upgrading using a f...
10 November 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the core technology of digital economy, which leads the transition to a sustainable economic growth approach under the Chinese-style environmentally decentralized system. In this paper, we first measured the green tota...
This research contributes to the continuing discussion on the causes of environmental degradation by investigating the impact of fiscal decentralization on environmental sustainability utilizing four measures of environmental sustainability and three...
The transformation of the marine economy is a central issue in China’s economic sustainability. On the conflicting goals between sustaining a strong marine economy and protecting the environment, this study explored the direct and spillover eff...
In this paper, based on the spatial panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2008 to 2019, the relationship between environmental regulation (ER), environmental decentralization (ED) and the green total factor productivity of the construction industr...
Our paper deals with a micro-study of one residential building in the city center of Brno (Czech Republic) where we strived to identify and better understand the main factors behind the successful implementation of environmentally friendly solutions...
Wastewater treatment remains a major challenge in rural and peri-urban areas, where conventional centralized infrastructure is often unavailable or insufficient. In this context, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) have emerged as cost-effective and energy-...
Fiscal decentralization and green innovation are important to a country’s economic progress, but the externalities of increased pollution as a result of a rise in the energy used and economic growth must not be overlooked. The destruction of th...
The increasing environmental impact of supply-chain activities has intensified interest in carbon-regulation policies such as carbon taxes. This paper analyzes a two-echelon manufacturer–retailer system operating under decentralized decision ma...
Environmental contamination by heavy metals poses significant threats to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, necessitating the development of effective remediation strategies. Conventional methods for heavy metal removal exhibit limitations, includin...
Sustaining the long-term operation of decentralized wastewater treatment facilities remains a challenge in resource-limited settings. This study evaluated an integrated biofilter-constructed wetland system installed at Eswatini Christian University i...
Small communities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) without a sewerage system commonly rely on septic tanks and long-distance transport of wastewater to the nearest centralized treatment facilities, resulting in high operational costs, social nuis...
This study examines the impact of China’s industrial land approval reform (ILAR) on the provision of subnational services. Utilizing the 2011 pilot reform policy approved by the State Council, we utilize a staggered Difference-in-Differences (D...
Wastewater can be segregated as greywater and blackwater separately. The greywater generated in malls, restaurants, and university buildings is generally dilute, while it will later become concentrated when it is merged into the main sewage collectio...
The traditional environmental governance theory attributes pollution to the result of market failure, but ignores the institution-level factors and the possibility of government failure. Using provincial panel data from 2001 to 2016 in China, and by...
This paper describes an efficient, decentralized algorithm to monitor qualitative spatial events in a dynamic scalar field. The events of interest involve changes to the critical points (i.e., peak, pits and passes) and edges of the surface network d...
In order to achieve growth in fiscal revenue and the regional economy under the Chinese decentralization system, the land resources misallocation (LRM) among different industries was promoted through the differentiated land supply strategy, which has...
Waste-to-energy (WtE) could prevent the production of up to 50 million tons of CO2 emissions that would otherwise be generated by burning fossil fuels. Yet, support for a large deployment of WtE plants is not universal because there is a widespread c...
Biorefineries provide economic, environmental, and social benefits towards sustainable development. Because of the relatively small size of typical biorefineries compared to oil and gas processes, it is necessary to evaluate the options of decentrali...
Rural and semi-urban areas in arid/semi-arid regions are facing severe water scarcity and a series of environmental challenges nowadays, specifically due to rapid urbanization and economic development, climate change, population growth, increasing wa...
The direction of sunshine or the installation sites of environmental control facilities in the greenhouse result in different temperature and humidity levels in the various zones of the greenhouse, and thus, the production quality of crop is inconsis...
Heat pumps are an essential part of decarbonization of buildings, providing efficient and sustainable heat. Analyzing the future contribution of decentralized heat pumps requires an estimation of the potential of local environmental heat sources at h...
The Mediterranean region is highly vulnerable to climate change, soil and water resource degradation, and biodiversity loss. These challenges disproportionately affect disadvantaged rural areas, impacting both natural resources and the livelihoods of...
This study investigates the impact of sustainability-related uncertainty (SRU)—captured via the Sustainability-related Uncertainty Index in equal-weighted (ESGUI_EQ) and GDP-weighted (ESGUI_GDP) forms—on the volatility of green financial...
With the rapid development of industrial economy, local governments in China have invested a large amount of financial funds in environmental protection. In the era of widespread use of clean energy, local governments have a greater responsibility to...
In the industrialization process, the difficulty in implementing environmental protection and enhancing the effect of environmental emission reduction are common problems to the developing countries, which are directly related to the quality of socia...
In the recent decade, several technology trends have influenced the field of geosciences in significant ways. The first trend is the more readily available technology of ubiquitous wireless communication networks and progress in the development of lo...
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