Does ecological economic zone policy affect pollutant emission: Evidence from a case study of Dongting Lake.

Autor: Su W; Economic Research Center, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, China., Xia X; Business School, Guangzhou College of Technology and Business, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: xiaoxiao.xia@outlook.com., Xie C; Veterans Education College, Tangshan Open University, Tangshan, China., Saniuk S; Department of Engineering Management and Logistic Systems, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland., Grabowska S; Department of Production Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2024 Jun 15; Vol. 929, pp. 172492. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 20.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172492
Abstrakt: Environmental pollution affects human health, reduces work motivation, and addressing environmental pollution is a common challenge faced by the world. The Chinese government has recently implemented a new environmental policy - the national-level ecological economic zone - to develop a green economy and reduce environmental pollution. This study utilizes the difference-in-difference method to analyze the impact of the Dongting Lake ecological economic zone on environmental pollution. The results show that: policy led to a 68 % reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions. This impact was more pronounced in economically developed areas, regions with a high concentration of foreign-invested, and areas with greater economic openness. Mechanism tests indicate that the policy reduces environmental pollution by promoting technological progress. Robustness checks show that the policy also resulted in a 37 % reduction in industrial wastewater emissions. The results offer new insights to advance the development of the ecological economic zone more effectively. The ecological economic zone should focus on enhancing technological advancement and green total factor productivity to amplify the policy's positive effects.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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