Too little or too much? Exploring the effectiveness of different policies in air pollution control from technical and non-technical pathways.

Autor: Ma X; Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China; School of Management, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Economics and Environmental Management, Beijing, 100081, China; Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing, Beijing, 100081, China. Electronic address: xiaoweibit@163.com., Sun Q; Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China; School of Management, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China., Wang M; Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China; School of Management, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China., Li C; Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China; School of Management, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of environmental management [J Environ Manage] 2024 Oct; Vol. 369, pp. 122375. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 04.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122375
Abstrakt: Most environmental policy studies focus on the technical pathway effect but ignore the non-technical pathway. This paper analyzes the synergistic governance effects of three types of environmental policies on the technical and non-technical pathways. The super-efficient slacks-based measure-data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) assesses the green total factor productivity, while the Malmquist index decomposes into pure technical efficiency. The findings indicate that: (1) command-and-control policy has the 'too-little-of-a-good-thing' effect, but the policy intensity in most Chinese provinces is strong enough to reduce air pollution, while market-based incentive policy may be 'too-much-of-a-good-thing', but Chinese provinces have not reached the inflection point; (2) there are considerable differences in the environmental effects of different policies through technical and non-technical pathways; (3) different policies have various focuses. Command-and-control policy focuses on the non-technical pathway, whereas market-based incentive policy can induce technological progress.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests:Xiaowei Ma reports was provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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