Research on Green Total Factor Productivity of Yangtze River Economic Belt Based on Environmental Regulation

With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is facing many environmental problems that need to be solved in the process of development. This paper aims to analyze the environmental governance effects of nine provinces and two municipalities in...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2021-11, Vol.18 (22), p.12242
Main Authors: He, Junxia, Wang, Luxia, Tang, Decai
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data envelopment analysis
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics
Efficiency
Emissions
Environmental management
Environmental policy
Environmental regulations
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Hypotheses
Industrial development
Linear programming
Literature reviews
Low level
Municipal solid waste
Municipal waste management
Municipalities
Productivity
Rivers
Scale efficiency
Solid waste management
Sustainability
Urbanization
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Summary:With the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is facing many environmental problems that need to be solved in the process of development. This paper aims to analyze the environmental governance effects of nine provinces and two municipalities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2009 to 2018. Firstly, based on the input-output index, the slacks-based measure (SBM) undesirable model and Malmquist (ML) index were used to measure the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of the YREB from 2009 to 2018. The results showed that the technological progress index contributed the most to the GTFP of the YREB, followed by the pure technical efficiency index and the scale efficiency index. Environmental regulation has no significant impact on the GTFP of the YREB. Secondly, by analyzing the effect of environmental governance in the YREB, the results show that the main reasons for the ineffective environmental governance in the YREB are the redundant input of environmental resources, excessive unwanted output, and low harmless treatment rate of municipal solid waste, rather than the low level of urban environmental management. Finally, this paper provides recommendations for the ineffective provinces and municipalities of the YREB to further optimize the input-output factors of environmental governance.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph182212242